Because you saw my face a single time.

It cannot be she says the thing you mean;

Such wickedness were deadly to us both:

But good true love would help me now so much—

I tell myself, you may mean good and true.

You offer me, I seem to understand,

Because I am in poverty and starve,

Much money, where one piece would save my life.

The silver cup upon the altar-cloth

Is neither yours to give nor mine to take;