But the devil may pay them their reckoning for me,

For now I have got out of Limbo.

With many a foul step then I stagger’d home,

And it happen’d to be without falling;

I got on my bed, and nothing I said,

But my wife she began with her bawling;

She rung me such a peal, though she’d been not well,

As if she would have rais’d all the devils in hell,

You might have heard her as far as the sound of Bow Bell;

Then I wish’d that I’d stay’d there in Limbo.