March'd the Six Hundred!

"Barracks, and tables laid!

Food for the Pope's Brigade!"

But ev'ry Celt afraid,

Gazed on the grub dismay'd—

Twigg'd he had blunder'd;—

"Who can eat rancid grease?

Call this a room a-piecc?" *

"Silence unseemly din,

Prick them with bayonets in."—