The Protestant officers will be broken.

The Great Charter and the praters who appeal to it will be hanged in one rope.

The good Talbot will shower commissions on his countrymen, and will cut the throats of the English.

These verses, which were in no respect above the ordinary standard of street poetry, had for burden some gibberish which was said to have been used as a watchword by the insurgents of Ulster in 1641.

The verses and the tune caught the fancy of the nation.