But now, my dear Boys, we make cream colour ware.
Derry Down, &c.
It’s true our noble Queen has patron’d this trade,
And many by it great fortunes has made;
Then let us all hope that it may flourish here
As well as it has in famed Staffordshire.
Derry Down, &c.
I now can inform you a trial is made
Which gives us great hope of a flurishing trade;
This being the Case then, let us jovially sing