Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se,
Quàm quod ridiculos homines facit ...
Juv.
As I was walking in my Chamber the Morning before I went last into the Country, I heard the Hawkers with great Vehemence crying about a Paper, entitled,
The ninety nine Plagues of an empty Purse
. I had indeed some Time before observed, that the Orators of
Grub-street
had dealt very much in
Plagues
. They have already published in the same Month,
The Plagues of Matrimony, The Plagues of a single Life, The nineteen Plagues of a Chambermaid, The Plagues of a Coachman, The Plagues of a Footman
, and