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To all you ladies now at land	A
We men at sea indite	B
But first would have you understand	A
How hard it is to write	B
The Muses now and Neptune too	C
We must implore to write to you	C
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
For though the Muses should prove kind	E
And fill our empty brain	F
Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind	E
To wave the azure main	F
Our paper pen and ink and we	G
Roll up and down our ships at sea	G
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
Then if we write not by each post	H
Think not we are unkind	E
Nor yet conclude our ships are lost	I
By Dutchmen or by wind	E
Our tears we'll send a speedier way	J
The tide shall bring them twice a day	J
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
The King with wonder and surprise	K
Will swear the seas grow bold	L
Because the tides will higher rise	K
Than e'er they did of old	L
But let him know it is our tears	M
Bring floods of grief to Whitehall stairs	M
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
Should foggy Opdam chance to know	N
Our sad and dismal story	G
The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe	N
And quit their fort at Goree	G
For what resistance can they find	E
From men who've left their hearts behind	E
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
Let wind and weather do its worst	O
Be you to us but kind	E
Let Dutchmen vapour Spaniards curse	P
No sorrow we shall find	E
'Tis then no matter how things go	N
Or who 's our friend or who 's our foe	N
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
To pass our tedious hours away	J
We throw a merry main	F
Or else at serious ombre play	J
But why should we in vain	F
Each other's ruin thus pursue	C
We were undone when we left you	C
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
But now our fears tempestuous grow	N
And cast our hopes away	J
Whilst you regardless of our woe	N
Sit careless at a play	J
Perhaps permit some happier man	Q
To kiss your hand or flirt your fan	Q
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
When any mournful tune you hear	R
That dies in every note	S
As if it sigh'd with each man's care	T
For being so remote	S
Think then how often love we've made	U
To you when all those tunes were play'd	U
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
In justice you cannot refuse	V
To think of our distress	W
When we for hopes of honour lose	V
Our certain happiness	X
All those designs are but to prove	Y
Ourselves more worthy of your love	Z
With a fa la la la la	D
	-
And now we've told you all our loves	A2
And likewise all our fears	B2
In hopes this declaration moves	C2
Some pity for our tears	M
Let 's hear of no inconstancy	G
We have too much of that at sea	G
With a fa la la la la	D

Charles Sackville

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