And ever doth tend to the best availe:
If you take it too deep, it will make you but sleep;
So comes no great harm of a pot of good ale.
If (reeling) they happen to fall to the ground,
The fall is not great, they may hold by the Raile:
If into the water, they cannot be drown’d,
For that gift is given to a pot of good ale.
If drinking about they chance to fall out,
Fear not that Alarm, though flesh be but fraile;
It will prove but some blowes, or at most a bloody nose,