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If forty pounds would buy the globe,
this thing I would not do, Sir;
Or, were my friends as poor as Job,
I'd never raise them so, Sir:
For, should you prove one night my friend
we'd get a young kid together,
And you'd be gone ere nine months end,
then where should I find the father?
Pray, what would then my parents say,
if I would be so silly,
To give my maiden-head away,
and lose my true love Billy?
Oh! this would bring me to disgrace,
and therefore, I say you nay, Sir;
And if that you would me embrace,
first marry, and then you may, Sir.
I told her, I had wedded been
fourteen years and longer;
Else I'd chuse her for my queen,
and tie the knot still stronger:
She bid me then no further come,
but manage my wedlock fairly;
And keep my purse for spouse at home,
some other should buy her barley.
Then, as swift as any roe,
she rode away and left me;
After her I could not go,
of joy she quite bereft me;
