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A young

man

met a maiden,

and offered

her 40

crowns

to enjoy her.

She said, "Not yet.

Gold is dross

to my virginity."

℗ nay: O nay: not : yett.

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A: yong man walking alone,

abroad to take the ayre,

itt was his chance ffor him to meete

a maiden pasing ffaire. desiring her of curtesiye

awhile with him downe sitt;
shee answered him most modestlye,
"O nay! O nay! not yett!"

"Forty crownes I will giue thee,
sweete hart, in good red gold,
if that I may thy ffauour haue,
thy bewtye to behold."
& then she spoke now readilye
& with a ready witt,
"I will not sell my honestye!
O nay! O nay! not yett!

"Gold & mony is but drosse,

& worldly vanittye1;

I doe esteeme more of the losse

of my virginitye!

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I Cannott Bee Contented.

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but if that time & lesure serue,

infaith shee shall not neede to sterue;
ffor well I know shee doth deserue
to tast vpon sweet Nectair,
the ffoode wheron the gods do ffeede,
& all they gods they haue decreede.
but shee shall haue itt att her neede!
hey hoe my harte is wearye!

Some say, 'if I come nye her,
my liffe must pay the hyer;'
but if I scape ffrom ffyer,

then let them doe their worst;
for water, I am sure,

while grinding doth endure,
will come like hawke to lure,
or else the Miller is curst.

To present, to bring an Information against. Phillips.-F.

2? Reasoning.-F.

3 Lill. (1) Topant; to loll out the tongue. Wilts. "I lylle out the tonge as a

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beest dothe that is chafed [heated]." Palsgrave. "To pant and be out of breath, or lill out the tongue, as a dog that is weary." Florio, p. 15; in Halliwell's Gloss.-F.

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1 Grist, Corn ground, or fit for grinding; Meal, Flower. Phillips.-F.

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