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YOUNG ROUSELLE Young Rousselle, he has daughters three,

Married as well as you'd wish to see;

Two, one could scarcely beauties call,

And the third, she has just no brains at all.

Ah! ah! ah! truth to tell,

A jolly good chap is Young Rousselle.

Young Rousselle, he has farthings three, —

To pay his creditors these must be;

And, when he has shown these riches vast,

He puts them back in his purse at last.

Ah! ah! ah! truth to tell,

A jolly good chap is Young Rousselle.

Young Rousselle, he will run his rig

A long while yet ere he hops the twig.

For, so they say, he must learn to spell

To write his own epitaph,—Young Rousselle!

Ah! ah! ah! truth to tell,

A jolly good chap is Young Rousselle. 7