1-5. Dear friend, if you’ve gone into hock with your neighboror locked yourself into a deal with a stranger,If you’ve impulsively promised the shirt off your backand now find yourself shivering out in the cold,Friend, don’t waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess.You’re in that man’s clutches!Go, put on a long face; act desperate.Don’t procrastinate—there’s no time to lose.Run like a deer from the hunter,fly like a bird from the trapper!
12-15. Riffraff and rascalstalk out of both sides of their mouths.They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet,they cross their fingers behind their backs.Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty,always stirring up trouble.Catastrophe is just around the corner for them,a total smashup, their lives ruined beyond repair.