The fam’d F.R.S.es, do tell us,

That to blow up the coals of creation,

The bum is a species of bellows.

But Priestley, who loves to oppose,

Doth a different system insist on,

And swears that he’s led by the nose

To pronounce it a Cask of Phlogiston.

The moment the Lady let fly,

Billington, Storacci, and Kelly,

With laughter were ready to die