Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe—

⁠But the crew would do nothing but groan.

He served out some grog with a liberal hand,

⁠And bade them sit down on the beach:

And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,

⁠As he stood and delivered his speech.

"Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!"

⁠(They were all of them fond of quotations:

So they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers,

⁠While he served out additional rations).