"Gallant Captain, take some pity
On a woman in distress;
Leave me not within this city
For to die in heaviness."
In vain he urges that he is the enemy of her country.
"Blessed be the time and season
That you came on Spanish ground;
If you may our foes be termed,
Gentle foes we have you found."
He suggests that she would have no difficulty in getting a Spanish husband, but she replies that Spaniards are "fraught with jealousy."
"Still to serve thee day and night
My mind is prest;
The wife of every Englishman
Is counted blest."
He objects that it is not the custom of English soldiers to be attended by women.
"I will quickly change myself,
If it be so,
And like a page will follow thee
Where e'er thou go."
"I have neither gold nor silver
To maintain thee in this case,
And to travel is great charges,
As you know, in every place."
She puts her fortune at his disposal, but he has hit upon a new deterrent: