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I had not been in Holland
past years two or three,
Before that my young mistress
grew very fund of me.
She said her gold and silver
her houses and her land,
If I’d consent to marry her,
should be at my command.
I said dear honoured lady,
I cannot wed you both,
For I have lately promised
and made a solemn oath.
To wed none but Polly,
your pretty chamber-maid;
Excuse me, my dear mistress,
she has my heart betray’d.
Then in an angry humour,
away from me did run,
Resolv’d to be reveng’d on me,
before that it was long.
She being so perplexed,
the could nor be my wife.
That she would seek a project
to take away my life.
One day as we were walking
all in a garden gay,
The flowers they were springing
delightful and so gay,
