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254<br />

ANCIENT SONGS<br />

Unto a cruel wretch ;<br />

And God he knows, quoth Hie,<br />

I have it not. Tufh, rife, I faid, 155<br />

And take it here <strong>of</strong> me.<br />

Ten pounds, nor ten times ten,<br />

Shall make my love decay.<br />

Then from my bag into her lap,<br />

I caft ten pound ftraightway. 1 6®<br />

All blithe and pleafant then,<br />

To banqueting we go ;<br />

She pr<strong>of</strong>fered me to lye with her,<br />

And faid it fhould be fo.<br />

And after that fame time, 165<br />

I gave her {lore <strong>of</strong> coyn,<br />

Yea, fometimes fifty pound at once;<br />

All which I did purloyn.<br />

And thus I did pafs on ;<br />

Until my mailer then 1 70<br />

Bid call to have his reckoning ia<br />

Caft up among his men.<br />

The which when as I heard,<br />

I knew not what to fay :<br />

For well I knew that I was out 175<br />

Two hundred pound that day.<br />

Then

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