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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![Amidil retirer^ents flielter blowing, Exchanges fvveets with evVy gale. It is in vain to multiply words and make apologies for what is never to be defended by the bell: advocate in the world, the guilt of being ujifortunate. The man who becomes infolvent, has new in¬ terpretations put on all his indifferent adions ; and thofe whom he has favoured in his former life, difcharge themfelves of their obliga¬ tions to him, by joining in the reproaches of his enemies.-On the ^ other hand, let any o];e who is converfant in the variety of human life refled upon it, and he will find the man who wants mercy, has a taffe of no enjoyment of any kind; there is a natural difrelifh of every¬ thing which is good in his very nature, and he is born an enemy to the wwld; he is ever extremely partial to himfelf in all his adions, and has no fenfe of iniquity but from the punifhment which fliall attend it; the law of the land is his gofpel, and all his cafes of con- feience are determined by his attorney. I pafs’d this very moment by thy doors. And found them guarded by a troop of villains'. The Sons of public rapine were deflroying. They told me, by the fentence of the law. They had commifiion to feize all thy furniture; Nay more, Priule’s cruel hand had fign’d it. Here flood a ruffian with horrid face. Lording it o’er a pile of malTy plate, ■ Tumbled into a heap for public fale. There w'as another making villainous jells E](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31964965_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
