It is not four years ago  

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It is not four years ago,
I offered forty crowns
To lie with her a night or so:
She answered me in frowns.

Not two years since, she meeting me Did whisper in my ear, That she would at my service be, If I contented were.

I told her I was cold as snow, And had no great desire; But should be well content to go To twenty, but no higher.

Some three months since or thereabout, She that so coy had been, Bethought herself and found me out, And was content to sin.

I smiled at that, and told her I Did think it something late, And that I'd not repentance buy At above half the rate. This present morning early she Forsooth came to my bed, And gratis there she offered me Her high-prized maidenhead.

I told her that I thought it then Far dearer than I did, When I at first the forty crowns For one night's lodging bid.