# William's Return.

Come all young lovers I pray lend an ear.
It is of a lady's nurse maid the truth you shall hear,
For wit and for beauty none could her excel,
Young William was a sailor and she loved him
well.

Seven long years had this young man been at sea,
Which caused lovely Susan to grieve night and day,
She wrote many letters but no answer could obtain,
She thought her sweet William in the war had been
slain.

And as she was walking one day all in the fields,
A gathering pretty flowers the children for to please,
A young sailor stepped up to her and gazed on her
charms,
She really did not know him for he had lost his right
arm.

He said lovely Susan do you not know me,
I am your sweet William return'd from the sea,
I have plenty of gold and silver and riches in store,
And I have eighty pounds a year to maintain me on
shore.

Now sweet William and beautiful Susan are wed,
Their joys are renewed and their sorrows are fled,
Sweet William doth enjoy his own heart's delight.
And he'll go no more to see the wars for to fight.