On credit, that credulity will give;

Who purchase, conscious they can never pay;

Who know their fate, and traffic to betray;

On whom no pity, fear, remorse, prevail.

Their aim a statute, their resource a jail; -

These are the public spoilers we regard,

No dun so harsh, no creditor so hard.

A second kind are they, who truly strive

To keep their sinking credit long alive;

Success, nay prudence, they may want, but yet