TESTO DEL LIED

"Take me, take me, some of you"
di John Dryden (1631-1700)

Young I am and yet unskilled
How to make a lover yield,
How to keep and how to gain
When to love and when to feign.
Take me, take me, some of you,
While I yet am young and true.

Stay not till I learn the way
How to fib and how betray,
E'er I can my thoughts disguise,
Force a blush or roll my eyes.
Take me, take me, some of you,
While I yet am young and true.
Could I find a blooming youth,
Full of love and full of truth,
Of honest mind and noble mien,
I should long to be sixteen.
Take me, take me, some of you,
While I yet am young and true.