It's only natural to want something that you really can't afford to pay for, and poor peasants aren't any different. Our peasant who lived in challenging times, a time when agriculture was undergoing drastic change, when peasants were suffering from the enclosure act because of lost communal grazing, when poverty was rife and money was scarce, must mean that we have sympathy for those who longed for beauty in their lives. Our poor peasant made a deal with the devil which he could never pay, and had it not been for his wise wife, would have been forced to pay the ultimate price for his longing.