What, firing such a sum as this.

At eighteen hundred yards would miss?

The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

What is it, spite the First Lord's grace,

That guns of better make and case

At half the cost could well replace?

The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

So, what no more upon the deep

Should JOHN BULL floating useless keep,

But quickly from his Navy sweep?