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What I now state to others name
And to his landlord slyly state, That ruin’d soon must be his fate; His neighbour was in liquor found, Senseless and bleeding on the ground; On going home he drove so fast, As if each minute was his last; He’d broke his gig and spoilt his mare, This Sir is true I do declare; What I now state to others name, And they will tell you just the same; Sir cried the landlord in a pat, He knows not what he would be at; Quickly his mind I will alarm, For I will turn him out his farm; To me he’s tenant but at will, Soon soon he’ll be on Castle-Hill; I instant will the sot distress, And others will him sharply press; page 6 p.
— from Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse by James Parkerson


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