["The GUERNSEY Garland.", "In Three PARTS.", "PART I.", "YOU mortals all who deal unjust,\nWho lie yourselves to filthy luft,\nBe pleasd a while for to draw near,\nAnd listen to this ditty, here,", "Which of a nobleman I write,", "Who had a comely daughter bright,\nAged fifteen, a comely child,", "Who by her father was beguil'd,", "Her tender mother being dead,", "She by her father was tempted,", "With him to lie, and in fo doing,", "At laft it proved her fad ruin.", "At laft the proved with child, and then,", "Finding 'twas fo, the cry'd out then,", "Father I am with child by you,\nAlas! alas! what fhall I do,", "If it is known I am with child,", "My fortune is for ever spoil'd,", "Alas, alas, I am undone,", "To hide my flame where (all) I run.", "Daughter, be not diffatis'd,", "I, will take care thy flame to hide,", "In Guernsey town I have a friend,", "To whom with ſpeed I will thee ſend.", "And if the child should chance to live,", "Full fifty pounds a year I'd give,", "Soon after this, as it is faid,", "She to the Iland was convey'd.", "In forrow, where in a ſhort while,", "She was deliver'd of a child,", "This baby w-s a fon we hear,", "Uj on his breafth did plain appear.", "Thele words at large, in letters blue,", "I am thy fon and brother too,", "Which was aftonifh'nt to all,", "Specitators both great and ſmall,", "But none of them could ſay aright,", "The caufe of this amazing fight,", "But the poor mother of the child,", "She knew the meaning all the while,", "But the like Mary for her part,", "Kept this a ſecret at her heart,", "At laft, when able, this young dame,", "Did leave her ſon, and over came.", "Ag'in unto Great-Britain's shore,", "But ne'er went near her father more,", "And liv'd witha goldsmith in the Strand,", "A very noted gentleman,", "She had a thousand pounds we hear,", "And boarded with them seven years,", "At laft this goldsmith and his wife,", "By death deprived were of life.", "Having a fenat man's eſtate,", "Endu'd with worldly riches great,", "This damel being boarded there,", "And of a charming beauty fair.", "Having a thousand pounds withal,", "This man in love with her did fall,", "And they in love ſo well agreed,", "That they were married then with ſpeed.", "And as the apple of his eye,", "He lov'd his moſt tenderly,", "So now I'll leave them for a while,", "With providence on them to ſmile.", "PART II.", "AND next fome ſmall enquiry make,\nWhat courfe of life her father takes,\nHe ſent to Guernſey for to know,\nHow things did with his daughter go.", "The aniver was return'd, ſhe's ſled,", "At which he fig'd and took his heads,", "Saying, O let that day be curſ,", "In which to ſatify my luſt.", "I robb'd my child of honour then,", "For which I was the worſt of men,", "What a wretch was I to be ſo vile,", "Of honour for to rob my child.", "All women kind that do me meet,", "Will ſtop me as I walk the street,", "Calling me brought beaſt; but I,", "Am worſe than brutes by reaſon why.", "Because the brutes do in their kind,", "I robb'd a lovely child of mine,", "To wrong tree thus I was to blame,", "Thou'rt loſt, I fear to hide thy ſhame.", "Thou'rt gone into ſome grave to lie,", "Where thou with grief will p ſtine and die,", "As for the baby thou did bear,", "All by my vulnaries, yet care,", "Of him I am reſ'lv'd to take,", "My whole eſtate to him I'll make,", "This being done then out of hand,", "In ſpeed I'll quit my native land.", "And in ſome foreign wildernſes,", "My forrows great I will expreſſ,", "With weeping eyes, in tears great floods,", "Unto the harmleſs trees and birds,", "Where finging birds do ſrain their throats,\nSinging out their wabbing notes,\nMoft sweet and lovely to the ear,\nBut they ne'er did their anger fear.", "O God! whose great alio ſeeing eye,", "Can in great defafts my eſpy,", "Encompafſed by forrows round,", "He ſaid, my ſin will cut me down.", "Like graſs that withers and confumes,", "This ſhameſt I ſu'll be m doom,", "So in a ſhort time as we hear,", "To Guinea he his courſe did fleer.", "There in an unfrequented wood,", "This man became a tyger's ſood,", "And in ſhort time quite loſt his breath,", "And came to an untimely death.", "I'll leave him now and give you to know,", "How things did with his daughter go.", "PART III.", "HIS ſon which his own daughter had,\nGrew up to be a comely lad,", "And in this Iland as 'tis told,", "He tarry'd till fifteen years old,", "At laft this lau, as it is ſaid,", "Refolved for to get a trade,", "And came to London city, where,", "He in a ſhort time Apprentice were,", "Unto this goldsmith and no other,", "Whofe wife happeu'd to be his mother.", "But all his 'prenticeſhip that while,", "She never knew he was her chil,", "The laſt year of his 'prenticeſhip then,", "His maſter dy'd like other men.", "He forced was by cruel death,", "For to reſign his vital breath.", "This 'prentice being ftrait and tall,", "And of a pleafant look withal.", "His minareſs fancy'd him ſo well,", "That he with him still death could dwell,", "And according to old England's laws,", "She to her 'prentice marry'd was.", "And all the live long wedding day,", "In mirth they paſ'd their time away,", "When night as come with free conſent,", {"bbox": [8