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Title: The Bankrupt
or Advice to the Insolvent. A Poem, addressed to a friend, with other pieces

Author: James Parkerson

Release Date: May 6, 2010 [eBook #32275]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BANKRUPT***

Transcribed from the 1806 S. Kitton edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

THE BANKRUPT,

OR

_ADVICE TO THE INSOLVENT_,

A POEM,

ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND:

WITH

OTHER PIECES.

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_BY JAMES PARKERSON_, _JUN._
LATE OF YARMOUTH.

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_NORWICH_:
PRINTED AND SOLD FOR THE AUTHOR BY S. KITTON,
WHITE-LION-LANE;
SOLD ALSO BY CROSBY AND CO. LONDON; KEYMER,
YARMOUTH: AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

* * * * *

PRICE ONE SHILLING.
1806.

THE BANKRUPT.

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Oft have you pray'd me, when in youth,
Never to err from paths of truth;
But youth to vice is much too prone,
And mine by far too much, I own.
Induced to riot, swear, and game,
I thought in vice t'acquire a fame;
But found the pois'ning scenes of riot
Soon robb'd my mind of joy and quiet.
The usual course of rakes I ran,
The dupe of woman and of man.
Careless of fortune's smile or frown,
My desk I left t'enjoy the town,
At folly dash'd in wisdom's spite,
Idled by day, revell'd by night:
But short was the delusive scene,
And I awoke to sorrow keen.