Lord! I was lively as the day!

I won the High-lows, out and out.

“I’m surely growing young again,

I feel myself so kedge and plump!

From head to feet I’ve not one pain.

Nay, hang me, if I couldn’t jump!”

Thus spake the ale in Richard’s pate;

A very little made him mellow;

But still he loved his faithful Kate,

Who whispered thus: “My good old fellow,