Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear

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Fare thee well, my dearest dear, fare thee well, adieu For I must go to sea for the sake of you Love, bear a patient heart, for you must bear the smart Since you and I must part, my turtle dove You'll have silver and bright gold, houses and land What more can you desire, love? Don't complain And jewels to your hand, and maids at your command But you must think of me when I am gone Your gold shall count as dust when that you are fled Your absence proves me lost and strikes me dead And when you are from home, your servants I'll have none I'll rather live alone than in company So nimbly then she's dressed all in man's attire All for to go to sea was her heart's desire She cut her lovely hair, and no mistrust was there That she a maiden were, all at the time To Venice we were bound with our hearts' content No thought of ship being wrecked, away we went From London but one day, our ship was cast away Which caused our lives to lay in discontent For our ship was cast away, misfortune it did frown For I did swim to shore but she was drowned Now she lies in the deep in everlasting sleep Which causes me to weep for evermore