Decipimur specie recti
Hor.

When I meet with any vicious Character that is not generally known, in order to prevent its doing Mischief, I draw it at length, and set it up as a Scarecrow; by which means I do not only make an Example of the Person to whom it belongs, but give Warning to all Her Majesty's Subjects, that they may not suffer by it.

[Thus]

, to change the

Allusion

[1]

, I have marked out several of the Shoals and Quicksands of Life,

[and]

am continually employed in discovering those

which