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THE POOR AND THEIR DWELLINGS. {9}
The Method of treating the Borough Paupers--Many maintained at their
own Dwellings--Some Characters of the poor--The Schoolmistress, when
aged--The Idiot--The poor Sailor--The declined Tradesman and his
Companion--This contrasted with the Maintenance of the Poor in a
common Mansion erected by the Hundred--The Objections to this
Method: Not Want, nor Cruelty, but the necessary evils of this
Mode--What they are--Instances of the Evil--A Return to the Borough
Poor--The Dwellings of these--The Lanes and Byways--No Attention
here paid to Convenience--The Pools in the Pathways-- Amusements of
Sea-port Children--The Town Flora--Herbs on Walls and vacant Spaces-
-A female Inhabitant of an Alley--A large Building let to several
poor Inhabitants--Their Manners and Habits.
YES! we've our Borough-vices, and I know
How far they spread, how rapidly they grow;
Yet think not virtue quits the busy place,
Nor charity, the virtues crown and grace.
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