When I was one and twenty
I heard a wise man say
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away
Give pearls away and rubies,
but keep your fancy free"
But I was one-and-twenty,
no use to talk to me
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again.
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain
Tis paid with sighs a plenty,
and sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, tis true, tis true.
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