Bargain

"Come, shepherd boy, poor shepherd boy, give ear,
Behold this heavy purse with gold filled here;
Thy poverty I'll purchase now from thee,
If you, with it, thy love will give to me."

"If but an earnest were this glittering gold,
Thy proffer magnified an hundredfold —
Nay, if the world on top thou shouldest lay —
My pretty one thou could'st not take away!"