And in your faces smiling,

Hear’s three half-crowns and a purse, my lads,

And the lot is but a shilling.

All sorts of games will be that day,

To please both old and young, sir;

If the volunteers should want a rest,

The girls will hold his gun, sir.

For good-tempered girls there will be there,

No better in England found, sir,

For if you ask them there to sit,