They did most dreadful things with it;
They blew up popes and parliaments,
And emperors and kings with it.
They put on funny hats and boots,
And skulked about in cellars, oh!
With shaking shoes they laid a fuse,
And blew it with the bellows, oh!
They wore great ruffs, the stupid muffs,
(At least that’s my opinion) then;
And said “What ho!” and “Sooth, ’tis so!”