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3 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 may, 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.