He rambled, and over the plain—

And backwards and forwards he switched his long tail,

As a gentleman switches his cane.

And pray, now, how was the Devil drest?

Oh, he was in his Sunday best;

His coat it was red, and his breeches blue,

With a hole behind, which his tail went through.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper,

On a dunghill by his own stable;

And the Devil he smiled, for it put him in mind