Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.”
The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
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