Add to ORKGMan leaves his parents and sweetheart behind to go to sea. He meets a woman who offers him money if he will marry her and not return to his parents. He regrets his decision to marry her and misses the girl he left behind.Laws, ABBB, P1A, p. 248; Mercer: Leach, p. 322, p. 330; Peacock, p. 449; Peacock (1954), p. 128
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