Was foster-father of all CRIMES:

He pawn’d his life; he sak’d his soul,

And found employment for the whole:

Acknowleg’d that he gain’d his wealth,

By FRAUD, by MURDER; and by STEALTH:

On one so useful to her cause,

VICE well might lavish due applause.

The hagger’d host bow’d low the head,

The MONSTER rose, and thus she said:

‘Ye MINISTERS of VICE, draw near,