And here I sitt
Without een a bitt,
’Cause Noyah hath all in his Arke.”
The presentation of this billet caused great amusement, and Noyes sent back a dish of venison with the rhymes recast, at the dictation of the king, in this fashion:—
“When the World was drown’d
There deer was found,
Althoe there was noe Park;
I send thee a bitt
To quicken thy witt,
Which comes from Noya’s Arke.”