Proffered Love Rejected

It is not four years ago,I offered forty crownsTo lie with her a night or so:She answer'd me in frowns.

Not two years since, she meeting me5Did 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;10But should be well content to goTo twenty, but no higher.

Some three months since or thereabout,She, that so coy had been,Bethought herself and found me out,15And was content to sin.

I smil'd at that, and told her IDid think it something late,And that I'd not repentance buyAt above half the rate.20

This present morning early sheForsooth came to my bed,And gratis there she offered meHer high-priz'd maidenhead.

I told her that I thought it then25Far dearer than I did,When I at first the forty crownsFor one night's lodging bid.