And very small hopes of amends.
Great dangers on both sides encreases,
Which very destructive may prove;
The lass may be all pull’d to pieces,
Or all the poor lads die for love.
But that which supports and preserves them,
Their stomachs their best friends do prove;
And ’tis not a little meat serves them
Since they fell so deeply in love.
Their fancies and appetites working,