I axed if he was fit for to die,
Without having duly repented?
Says Larry, "That's all in my eye,
And all by the clergy invented
To make a fat bit for themselves."
Then the cards being called for, they played,
Till Larry found one of them cheated.
Quick! he made a hard rap at his head,—
The lad being easily heated.
"So ye chates me because I'm in grief;