Shouting vociferously, “Might shall be right!”

E’en in the days of our good Queen Bess,

Ashwood and Priestwood were forced to confess

The power of seven score madden’d with wine,

Who stole their best oxen, their sheep and their kyne.

These customs were past when our Earl’s noble ancestor

Fair Frances won, and the Lord of all blest her

With children whose numerous descendants were famed

For talents, for actions, for virtues oft named,—

Talents acknowledged by Peel, Byron, Moore,