The Bergen business was well laid,
Though we paid dear for that design,
Had we not three days parleying staid,
The Dutch fleet there, Charles, had been thine.
Though the false Dane agreed to sell 'um,
He cheated us, and saved Skellum.
The Insipids.
Another wit of the time says,
To Bergen we with confidence made haste,
And the secret spoils by hope already taste.