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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    [ lo ] Mothers, *tis faid, in days o'f old, Efteem’d their girls more choice than gold ; Too well a daughter’s worth they knew. To make her cheap by public view. ( Few, who their diamonds value weigh, Expofe their diamonds ev’ry day.) Then if Sir Plume drew near, and finil’d. The parent trembled for his child : The firft advance alarm’d her brealh, And fancy pictur’d all the reft ^ But now, no mother fears a foe. No daughter ftiudders at a beau. Never do any thing for your friends, that is not confonant to your, honour and confcience, you ought to prefer thofe to your friends; and if you would live happy with them, be as independent of them as you can. Of all the griefs that harrafs the diftreft. Sure the moft bitter is a fcornful jeft ; • Fate never wounds'more deep the gcn’rous heart, - , - Than when a blockhead’s infult points the .dart. ' ' f r .1 I-T, t - A » 'o: ■ Ti '•d for all the world, that you would tvifti them wer make confidants of any but fuch as are rit, fenfe, or probity. Look upon them as 'ghting you through the darknefs which