Were paper-money men.

'Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub,'

Is a mystic burthen old,

Which I've pondered about till my fire went out,

And I could not sleep for cold.

I now divine each mystic sign,

Which robbed me oft of sleep,

Three men in a bowl, who went to troll,

For the moon in the midnight deep.

Three men were they who science drank