Where Bedlam’s crazy crew conspire

Against the life of reasoning man.

I’ve furl’d in storms the flapping sail,

By hanging from the topmast-head;

I’ve served the vilest slaves in jail,

And pick’d the dunghill’s spoil for bread;

I’ve made the badger’s hole my bed:

I’ve wander’d with a gipsy crew;

I’ve dreaded all the guilty dread,

And done what they would fear to do.