The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

And these symptoms you find

In your body or crown—

Well, it's time to look out,

You may make up your mind

You had better lie down!

When your lips are all smeary—like tallow,

And your tongue is decidedly yallow,

With a pint of warm oil in your swallow,

And a pound of tin-tacks in your chest—