Then to puss, boys, to puss, boys,
Let’s drink it off thus, boys,” &c.
The anthem for 1695 consists of five verses; the first, the second, and the fourth verses are too profane and lewd to be reproduced. The following are the third and fifth. After describing the people hurrying to Church on the 30th of January, and asking what is meant by it, the foul-mouthed members sing:—
“Oh! sir, it is a debt they say,
Mother Church must yearly pay
To her saints’ canonisation;
It is the day in which he fell,
A martyr to the cause of hell,
Justly crown’d with decollation.
“May the banish’d Tarquins’[[162]] fate,