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So when they'd made their game of her,

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And taken off her elf,

She roused, and found she only was

A coming to herself.

"And is he gone, and is he gone?"
She cried, and wept outright:
"Then I will to the water side,
And see him out of sight."

A waterman came up to her,
"Now, young woman," said he,
“If you weep on so, you will make
Eye-water in the sea."

"Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben,
To sail with old Benbow;"
And her woe began to run afresh,
As if she'd said, Gee woe!

Says he, "They 've only taken him

To the Tender-ship, you see;'

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"The Tender-ship," cried Sally Brown, "What a hard-ship that must be!

"Oh! would 1 were a mermaid now, For then I'd follow him;

But Oh!-I'm not a fish-woman,

And so I cannot swim.

"Alas! I was not born beneath

The virgin and the scales,
So I must curse my cruel stars,
And walk about in Wales."

Now Ben had sail'd to many a place
That's underneath the world;
But in two years the ship came home,
And all her sails were furl'd.

But when he call'd on Sally Brown,
To see how she got on,

He found she'd got another Ben,
Whose Christian-name was John.

"Oh, Sally Brown, Oh, Sally Brown,
How could you serve me so,
I've met with many a breeze before,
But never such a blow!"

Then reading on his 'bacco box,
He heaved a heavy sigh,
And then began to eye his pipe,
And then to pipe his eye.

And then he tried to sing "All's Well," But could not, though he tried;

His head was turn'd, and so he chew'd His pigtail till he died.

His death, which happen'd in his birth,
At forty-odd befell:

They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell.

FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY.

A PATHETIC BALLAD.

BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms!

Now as they bore him off the field,
Said he, "Let others shoot,
For here I leave my second leg,
And the Forty-second Foot!"

The army-surgeons made him limbs:
Said he, "They're only pegs:
But there's as wooden members quite,
As represent my legs!"

Now Ben he loved a pretty maid,
Her name was Nelly Gray;
So he went to pay her his devours,
When he devoured his pay!

But when he called on Nelly Gray,
She made him quite a scoff;
And when she saw his wooden legs,
Began to take them off!

"Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly Gray!
Is this your love so warm?
The love that loves a scarlet coat
Should be more uniform!"

Said she, "I loved a soldier once,
For he was blithe and brave;

But I will never have a man
With both legs in the grave!

"Before you had those timber toes,
Your love I did allow,

But then, you know, you stand upon
Another footing now!"

"Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly Gray!

For all your jeering speeches,

At duty's call, I left my legs,
In Badajos's breaches!"

"Why then," said she," you 've lost the feet

Of legs in war's alarms,

And now you cannot wear your shoes

Upon your feats of arms !'

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