Away to Parnassus I'm beckoned;

List, warriors and dames, while my lay is rehearsed,

I sing of the singe of Miss Drury the first,

And the birth of Miss Drury the second.

The Fire King, one day, rather amorous felt;

He mounted his hot copper filly;

His breeches and boots were of tin, and the belt

Was made of cast iron, for fear it should melt

With the heat of the copper colt's belly.

Sure never was skin half so scalding as his!