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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    It is curious to obferve how the na;ture of truth may be changed by the garb it wears; foftened to the admonition of friendfliip, or foured in the feverity of reproof, yet this feverity may be ufeful to fome tempers; it fomewhat referhbles a file, difagreeable in its ope¬ ration, but hard metals may be the brighter for it. ♦ . * NarcilTa’s pious; envy cannot fay ■ • She mifs’d, thefe many years, the church or play. She makes no buflle in the world, ’tis true. But pays her debts and vifits when they’re due : A fmile eternal on her lip fhe wears, - - Which equally the wife and worthlefs fliares; She charitably lends the Town her face For ornament in ev’ry public place; And her whole ftudy is, from morn to night, T* appear abroad exceflively polite. . The fervor of a man’s love, is preferved by a proper oppofition to his paflion: the eafy yielding fair-one, foon damps the flame which fhe had raifed. By keeping men at a prudent diflance, women fland the faireft chance to keep them in their fervice. The princely pine on hills exalted, Whofe loft3^.branches cleave the Iky, By winds long brav’d at lafl; aflaulted Is headlong whirl’d in dufl; to lie ; Whilft the mild rofe more fafely growing. Low in its unafpiring vale Amidfl:
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