"When they get me aloft they will spifflicate me,
And there'll be an end of poor little Bill-ee!"
Which same seemed a sad foregone conclusion,
Though Captain Willyum he skipped with glee,
And cried, "Little Bill-ee, keep up your pecker!
You shall yet be the Captain of a Seventy-three!"
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Now, to keep up your pecker with naught to peck at
Is mighty hard, as a fool may see;
And Bob and Harty (who loved not short commons)