“The next I learnt (O melancholy tale),

“On the profession, what a foul reproach!

“That his deserts had sent him to a jail,

“Where he was dragg’d (O shame!) without a coach!

His Character.

“Vulture! the arrant’st cormorant on earth,

“At length is caught, and into Newgate thrown;

“Fair honesty disclaim’d him at his birth,

“And villainy confess’d him for her own!

“Grown old in sin, at no one crime dismay’d,