But when heard my words, she right soon had known
My want and her heart waxed hard as stone,
And quoth she, “Be not this a word silly-bold?”
But quoth I, “Refrain thee nor flyte and scold!
An to-day thou consent such affair were light;
Thy like is the loved, mine the lover-wight!”
When she knew my mind she but smiled in mirth
And cried, “Now, by the Maker of Heaven and Earth!
“I’m a Jewess of Jewry’s driest e’er seen
And thou art naught save a Nazarene.