And pledg’d the vessel’s owner’s word

Not yet to enter it.[24]

At Faneuil Hall,[25] next morning,

While all the bells were rung,

Men swarm’d, like bees, to buzz before,

Prepar’d to die, they stung.

The sheriff[26] came and cried aloud:

“You meet unlawfully!”

His cry but made them busier buzz,

With Saxon loyalty.