"He swore—with flaming faggot sticks,

In sixteen hundred sixty-six,

That they through London took their marches,

And burnt the city down with torches;

Yet all invisible they were,

Clad in their coats of Lapland air.

The sniffling Whig-mayor Patience Ward

To this damn'd lie paid such regard,

That he his godly masons sent,

T' engrave it round the Monument: