Jack Ketch himself from Cupid's noose

By no means feels secure.

The butcher—heretofore so hard—

Feels in his heart a skewer.

The miser (harder far than both)

Now opens with avidity

His chest—his heart, I meant to say:—

For Cupid, cuts Cupidity.

The beasts are just in the same plight;

The horse, the ass, the steer: