Stir them with steady hand, and conscience pricking,

To see the untimely end of ten fine chicken;

From shining shelf take down the brazen skillet—

A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it;

When boil'd and cold put milk and sack to eggs,

Unite them firmly like the triple leagues;

And on the fire let them together dwell

Till miss sing twice 'you must not kiss and tell;'

Each lad and lass take up a silver spoon,

And fall on fiercely like a starved dragoon."