'And if I win,' one beggar said,

'Though I am old I shall persuade

A pretty girl to share my bed';

The second: 'I shall learn a trade';

The third: 'I'll hurry to the course

Among the other gentlemen,

And lay it all upon a horse';

The second: 'I have thought again:

A farmer has more dignity.'

One to another sighed and cried: