Of pease-pudding and gammon of bacon.
Sir John Hawky, the musical Knight,
Who in wit all the Quorum surpasses,
And to whom, if we judge of him right,
The wise men of Greece were mere asses,
Has defin’d Antient Music to be
What sprung from the bottom of Madam,
And that under the wisdom-fraught tree
Eve f—t—d in concert with Adam.
Now those sages renown’d in our nation,