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will consent to neither for man's force nor yet for lady's pleasure.
Pardon me if I speak my plain thoughts plainly; but where a maid is very
bold, a poor man must even be the bolder."
"
Dick," she said, "ye sweet boy, ye must come and kiss me for that word.
Nay, fear not, ye shall kiss me for Joanna; and when we meet, I shall
give it back to her, and say I stole it. And as for what ye owe me, why,
dear simpleton, methinks ye were not alone in that great battle; and even
if York be on the throne, it was not you that set him there. But for a
good, sweet, honest heart, Dick, y' are all that; and if I could find it
in my soul to envy your Joanna anything, I would even envy her your
love."
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