The sea-mans compass or A dainty new ditty composed and pend the deeds of brave sea-men to praise and commend, 'twas made by a maid that to Gravesend did pass, now mark, and you quickly shall hear how it was. To the tune of, The tyrant hath stoln. L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04822 of text R182076 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3382D). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 B04822 Wing P3382D ESTC R182076 47012597 ocm 47012597 174565 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04822) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174565) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2691:50) The sea-mans compass or A dainty new ditty composed and pend the deeds of brave sea-men to praise and commend, 'twas made by a maid that to Gravesend did pass, now mark, and you quickly shall hear how it was. To the tune of, The tyrant hath stoln. L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for F. G. ..., London : [1650?] Signed at end: L. P. Attributed to Laurence Price by Wing (2nd ed.) Date of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.) Contains 2 illustrations. Right half-sheet contains: The second part to the same tune. Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow. Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Sailors -- Poetry. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. B04822 R182076 (Wing P3382D). civilwar no The sea-mans compass or A dainty new ditty composed and pend the deeds of brave sea-men to praise and commend, 'twas made by a maid that to L. P 1650 737 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion The Sea-mans Compass OR A dainty new Ditty composed and pend The deeds of brave Sea-men to praise and commend , 'T was made by a Maid that to Gravesend did pass , Now mark , and you quickly shall hear how it was : To the Tune of , The Tyrant hath stoln . AS lately I travelled , towards Gravesend , I heard a fair Damosel a Sea-man commend And as in a Tilt-boat we passed along In praise of brave Sea-men she sung this new Song Come Tradesman or Merchant , whoever he be There 's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me , A Sea-man in promise is faithful and just Honest in carriage and true to his trust Kind in behaviour and constant in love As firm in affection as the Turtle-Dove , Valiant in action in every degree There 's none but a Sea-man , &c , The Sea-men adventures their lives at the Seas Whilst land men on shore takes pleasure and ease The Sea-men at all times their businesse must ply In Winter and Summer in wet and in dry From toyl and pains taking they seldome are frée There 's none but a Sea-man , &c , Moreover I de have you for to understand That Sea-men brings treasure and profit to land Above and beneath ground for wealth they have sought And when they have found it to England 't is brought With hazard of lives by experience we see There 's none but a Sea-man , &c. Sea-men from beyond Seas bring silver and gold With Pearls and rich Jewels most rare to behold With Silks and rich Velvets their credits to save Or else you gay Ladies could not go so brave This makes my heart merry as merry may be There 's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me . The second Part to the same Tune , THe Sea-men brings Spices and Sugar so fine Which serve the brave gallants to drink with their wine With Lemonds and Orenges all of the best To rellish their pallats when they make a feast Sweet Figs , Prunes & Raisons by them brought home be There 's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me . To comfort poor people , the Sea-men do strive And brings in maintainance to keep them alive As raw silk and cotten wool to card and to spin And so by their labours their livings comes in Most men are beholding to Sea-men we sée With none but a Sea-man I married will be . The Mercer's beholding we know well enough For Holland , Lawn , Cambrick , and other gay stuffe That 's brought from beyond seas by Sea-men so bold , The rarest that ever mens eyes did behold God prosper the Sea-men where ever they be There 's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me . The Merchants themselves are beholding also To honest Sea-men that on purpose do go To bring them home profit from other strange lands , Or else their fine daughters must work with their hands The Nobles and Gentry of every degree Are also beholding to Sea-men we see . Thus for rich men & poor men , the Sea-men does good And sometimes comes off with loss of much blood If they were not a guard and defence for our land Our enemiee soon would get the upper hand And then in a woful case strait we should be There 's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me . To draw to conclusion and so make an end I hope that great Neptune my love will befriend And send him home safely with health and with life Then shall I with joyfulness soon be his wife You maids wives , and widdows that Sea-mens loves be With hearts and with voices Joyn Prayers with me . God blesse all brave Sea men from quicksands and rocks From loss of their blood and from enemies knocks From lightning and thunder . and tempests so strong From ship wrack and drowning and all other wrong And they that to these words will not say , Amen . 'T is pitty that they should ever speak words agen . L. P. Finis . London printed for F. G. on Snow-hill : Entred according to order .