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If twenty pounds should purchase delight,
to one that I love so dearly,
If you will lie with me to-night,
you'll go home in the morning early.
If twenty pounds should buy the globe,
it's the thing I'll never do, sir.
For were my friends as poor as Job,
I would never raise them so sir.
For would you prove my friend one night,
we might get a young kid together,
And you would be gone e'er nine month's end,
pray where would I find a father?
O pray what would my father say,
if I should be so silly
As to throw my maiden head away,
and loss my true-love Billy?
For it would bring me to disgrace,
therefore I say you nay, sir,
But if that you would me embrace,
first marry, and then you may, sir,
Then I told her I had married been
for fourteen years and longer,
Else I would choose her for my queen,
and fasten the knot still stronger.
