When I was one-and-twenty
 
 
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         5
  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,         10
�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,         15
  And oh, �tis true, �tis true.
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