You grew the common borrower; no man escaped
Your paper pellets,—I in time
May rise to be overseer of the poor,
Which if I do, on your petition Wellborn,
I may allow you thirteen pence a quarter.
CHAP. XVIII. [P. 107.]
The good effects of method exemplified, with a serious warning against being entangled in law-suits, which “catch flies, and let hornets go free.”
CHAP. XIX. [P. 113.]
The misery of one false step—a modern Messalina.—“She first made love in private as is the common use, but bringing her business about with too much ease, she soon scorned that way, and presently fell to making open love.”