Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air X-“Thomas, I Cannot"

Act I, Scene viii, Air X—“Thomas, I Cannot,”
Polly.  I like a ship in storms was tossed,
 Yet afraid to put into land,
  For seized in the port the vessel’s lost
 Whose treasure is contraband.
 The waves are laid,
 My duty’s paid;
 O joy beyond expression!
 Thus safe ashore
 I ask no more;
 My all is in my possession.