That some did fast and some did pray,

Some made a feast as I’ve heard say,

To drive this famine far away,

I sent our Nell as I’m a sinner,

To get some liver and bacon for dinner,

We fasted so long we are quite thinner,

We thought we’d have a feast day.

To walk about that day in the street,

Thousands of poor folk I did meet,

Because they had got nothing to eat,