| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Anonymous. 1600 |
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58. A Pedlar
John Dowland's Second Book of Songs or Airs |
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| FINE knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new, | |
| Good pennyworths—but money cannot move: | |
| I keep a fair but for the Fair to view— | |
| A beggar may be liberal of love. | |
| Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, | 5 |
| The heart is true. | |
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| Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again; | |
| My trifles come as treasures from my mind: | |
| It is a precious jewel to be plain; | |
| Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find:— | 10 |
| Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain! | |
| Of me a grain! | |
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