Though foes we could thump any,

We are scarcely fit company

For a lady like you!

Ralph. Proud officer, that haughty lip uncurl!

Vain man, suppress that supercilious sneer,

For I have dared to love your matchless girl,

A fact well known to all my messmates here!

Capt.Oh, horror!

Ralph and Jos. {I,} humble, poor, and lowly born,

{He,}