And thus the lovers planned to run away,

And get them married one Gunpowder Day.

Alonzo was to come disguised as Guy;

And while the mummers played their mummery,

A real Guy was to be deftly placed

Within the chair, while he ran off in haste

To hide him till old hunks was fast asleep;

When thro' the garden window they could creep,

And, down a silken ladder gently gliding,

Soon find some happy bower for love to hide in.