From fam’d Barbadoes, on the western main,

Fetch sugar, ounces four; fetch sack from Spain

A pint; and from the Eastern Indian coast

Nutmeg, the glory of our northern toast;

O’er flaming coals let them together heat

Till the all-conquering sack dissolve the sweet;

O’er such another fire put eggs just ten,

New-born from tread of cock and rump of hen;

Stir them with steady hand and conscience pricking,

To see th’ untimely end of ten fine chicken: