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If I live to be old for I find I go down	A
Let this be my fate In a country town	A
May I have a warm house with a stone at the gate	B
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate	B
May I govern my passion with an absolute sway	C
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away	C
Without gout or stone by a gentle decay	C
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Near a shady grove and a murmuring brook	D
With the ocean at distance whereupon I may look	D
With a spacious plain without hedge or stile	E
And an easy pad nag to ride out a mile	E
May I govern my passion with an absolute sway	C
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away	C
Without gout or stone by a gentle decay	C
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With Horace and Petrarch and two or three more	F
Of the best wits that reign'd in the ages before	F
With roast mutton rather than ven'son or veal	G
And clean though coarse linen at every meal	G
May I govern my passion with an absolute sway	C
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away	C
Without gout or stone by a gentle decay	C
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With a pudding on Sundays with stout humming liquor	H
And remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar	H
With Monte Fiascone or Burgundy wine	I
To drink the King's health as oft as I dine	I
May I govern my passion with an absolute sway	C
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away	C
Without gout or stone by a gentle decay	C
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With a courage undaunted may I face my last day	C
And when I am dead may the better sort say	C
In the morning when sober in the evening when mellow	J
He's gone and left not behind him his fellow	J
May I govern my passion with an absolute sway	C
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away	C
Without gout or stone by a gentle decay	C

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