To catgut, cat-call did reply,

With bell and bugle brazen!

And all the Gods, that sat on high,

Help’d out the diapason.

Yet bides Jack Kemble on the bent,

A Don of thorough blood;

With aitches though his head was rent,

Firm as a mule he stood.

“Show me,” said he, “what ’tis you want?

What want ye here?” he cried