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

by W. S. Gilbert

Have all run away from the summons to arms;

They haven't the pluck of a pigeon—I'll go

And wallop the Frenchmen who skulk in Soho!"

Old Timothy tried it and found it succeed:

That day he caused many French noses to bleed;

Through foggy Soho he spread fear and dismay,

And Frenchmen all round him in agony lay.

He took care to abstain from employing his fist

On the old and the crippled, for they might resist;