Both pays and takes are non-standard, colloquial forms.
‘Which is the Prime Minister?’‥‘Which ever you please, my little dear. You pays your money, and you takes your choice.’
[1846 Punch X. 16]
You pays your money and you takes your choice. You pays your money and what you sees is A cow or a donkey just as you pleases.
[1904 V. S. Lean Collectanea IV. 205]
Which is the right answer? You pays your money, as another saying goes, and you takes your choice.
[2001 Washington Post Book World 23 Dec. 11]
Related to: choices; money
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