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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;