Where gates impregnable, and coercive chains,

In durance strict detain him, till, in form

Of money, Pallas sets the captive free.

Beware, ye debtors! when ye walk, beware,

Be circumspect; oft with insidious ken

The caitiff eyes your steps aloof, and oft

Lies perdue in a nook or gloomy cave,

Prompt to enchant some inadvertent wretch

With his unhallowed touch. So (poets sing)

Grimalkin to domestic vermin sworn