Maxims in prose and verse : addressed to the affluent and benevolent public / By an unfortunate prisoner, of long durance in his Majesty's Goal [sic] of Newgate, for a debt.
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- Printed in the year 1788
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Credit: Maxims in prose and verse : addressed to the affluent and benevolent public / By an unfortunate prisoner, of long durance in his Majesty's Goal [sic] of Newgate, for a debt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] eel us from doinp; them, unlefs we can alTure oiirfelves that this judgment is above the reach of error, and that every thin^ is difa- greeable to the wdiole world that does not pleafe our part-iGular palate^ The traveller, if he chance to flray, May turn uncenfur’d to'his way; Polluted llreams again are pute, And deepeft wounds admit a cure, , But Woman no redemption knows. The wounds of honour never clofe. Of this be certain, that no trade can be fo bad as none at all ; nor any life fo tirefome, as that which is fpent in continual vifiting and diflipation. To give all one’s time to other people, and never refe’rve any for one’s felf, is to be free in appearance only and a Have in effedt. ’ ' - ■ . •\ ' C' i ■ ' Hail, facred friendlhipl virtue’s befl defence, Parent at once, anS child of innocence 1 Thou befl of bleilings^ we enjoy below. From thy clear fount our purefl pleafures flow; Life when improv’d by thee, can never cloy. By thee we relifli each inferior joy. . f ^ Many a .h'ufband is reclaimed by the moderation of his wife, and very many rendered abandoned by an unguarded violence of temper. Many a one has relinquiflied a real intrigue, from his wife’s avoid--- ing to difeover it: many a man has thrown him into fuch a one, by her fufpicion of an imaginary connedion.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31964965_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
