Over the hills and far away,

The first ten pounds, the other twenty,

And girls, I hope, that will content ye.

In seventeen hundred and sixty-nine,

This with my hand I write and sign,

The sixteenth day of fair October,

In merry mood, but sound and sober,

Past my three-score and fifteenth year,

With spirits gay, and conscience clear,

Joyous and frolicsome, though old,