The French King will a Girdle bring,

Made of Flat-bottom’d Boats;

Shall compas England round about,

Which must not be a few,

To give our Englishmen the Rout;

This sounds as if ’twere true.

There’s nothing done in all the World,

From Monarch to the Mouse,

But every Day or Night ’tis hurl’d

Into the Coffee-house.