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 t am two and t