“His name you wot well is Sir John Howson,
Whom I intend to set my muse on,
As great a warrior as Sir Miles Lewson.
Good people, pity the blind!
“He’d now give all the shoes in his shop
The Parliament’s fury for to stop,
Whip cobbler like any town-top.
Good people, pity the blind!
“Oliver made him a famous Lord,
That he forgot his cutting-board,