And e'en a jelly makes me shake.

From leg I'd rather run away;

Vain flight of fancy is a wing;

A merry thought, I sadly say,

To me is a forbidden thing.

But cut I will, and that full soon,

For some fair land where freedom lingers,

Where I can feed me with a spoon,

Or, like a Frenchman, use my fingers.

25. Equi-noctial Gales now about.