One stanza is quoted from Forbes's Cantus (1666) in Opie's Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed. (no. 471 [p. 456]):

       There comes a ship far sailing then,
       Saint Michel was the stieres-man:
       Saint Iohn sate in the horn:
       Our Lord harped, our Lady sang,
       And all the bells of heaven they rang,
       On Christs Sunday at morn,
       On Christs Sonday at morn.

~Masato