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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.