The miller declar'd

By the point of his knife,

He never took toll

Of a mouse in his life.

CCLXVII.

[The following is part of a comic song called 'Success to the Whistle and Wig,' intended to be sung in rotation by the members of a club.]

There was an old woman had three sons,

Jerry, and James, and John:

Jerry was hung, James was drowned,