"And then if my gold should better her birth,
And equal the gold you lay on the earth,
Then neither rail you, nor grudge you to see
The Blind Beggar's daughter a lady to be.
"But first, I will hear, and have it well known,
The gold that you drop it shall be all you own;"
"With that," they replied, "contented we be;"
"Then here's," quoth the beggar, "for pretty Bessee."
With that an angel he dropped on the ground,
And dropped, in angels, full three thousand pound;