When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crown and pounds and guineas
But not your hert away.
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.
"But I was one-and-twenty.
No use to talk to me.
Whrn I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again, The
heart out of the bosom
as 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.