Labour in Vain or, What Signifies Little or Nothing. Viz. I. The Poor Man's Petitioning at Court. II. Expectation of Benefit from a Covetous Man in his Life-time. III. The Marriage of an Old Man to a Young Woman. IV. Endeavours to Regulate Mens Manners by Preaching or Writing. V. Being a Jacobite. VI. Confining an Insolvent Debtor. VII. Promise of Secrecy in a Conspiracy. VIII. An Enquiry after a Place [by Edward Ward] |
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Confining an Insolvent Debtor.
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Confining an Insolvent Debtor.
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[Ask but the cruel Man, what he would have]
Ask but the cruel Man, what he would haveFrom his poor Debtor, to his will a Slave
Confin'd in Prison, presently he'll say
My Money, yet acts quite contrary way
To gain his end; for, how can one expect,
Where no Cause moves, there should be an Effect.
What silly Farmer will confine his Cow
From needful Herbage, for no hear der Low
For Food; or in reason can he believe,
By such Confinement, he shall Milk receive:
As silly is the Hope, when you confine
A Man Insolvent, for to raise the Coyn.
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