Stir them with steady hand, and conscience pricking

To see the untimely fate of twenty chicken.

From shining shelf take down your brazen skillet,

A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it.

When boiled and cooked, put milk and sack to egg,

Unite them firmly like the triple League.

Then covered close, together let them dwell

Till Miss twice sings: You must not kiss and tell.

Each lad and lass snatch up their murdering spoon,

And fall on fiercely like a starved dragoon.”