Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles— those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets, and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the "Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room, called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare. But I never betray an old customer. Why would militia be infesting the place? And he must by now be aware of my interest. My friend, I am only grieved that you of all others should have been so deceived. "Now, Jack," cried Thames, warmly grasping Sheppard's hand, "you are my friend again. The only safe place for him is at sea; and if he had kept to the sea, I shouldn't have found him so easily. " "My death will lie at your door," remarked Jackson to the carpenter. He can come round there.
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