Let's drink the parson dry!

Rouse there! rouse out o' th' house there!

Now, priest, God help your like

If there be left one drop of wine

When you hear midnight strike.'

The priest, a valiant clergyman,

Stood raging by the door;

With scapulary, cross, and bann,

He cursed the spirit o'er.

'Rouse there! rouse out o' th' house, there!