“Or idlers, cheats, or prostitutes;” - “What then?”
“Outcasts pursued by justice, vile and base;” -
“They need the more his pity and the place:”
Convert to system his vain mind has built,
He gives asylum to deceit and guilt.
In this vast room, each place by habit fix’d,
Are sexes, families, and ages mix’d -
To union forced by crime, by fear, by need,
And all in morals and in modes agreed;
Some ruin’d men, who from mankind remove;