The ringers ran by two, by three;

‘Pull, if ye never pulled before;

Good ringers, pull your best,’ quoth he.

‘Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!

Play all your changes, all your swells,

Play uppe The Brides of Enderby!

Men say it was a stolen tyde—

The Lord that sent it, He knows all;

But in myne ears doth still abide

The message that the bells let fall: