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

    By James Parkerson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Bankrupt or Advice to the Insolvent. A Poem, addressed to a friend, with other pieces

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      The Bankrupt or Advice to the Insolvent. A Poem, addressed to a friend, with other pieces - James Parkerson

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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.

      BY JAMES PARKERSON, Jun.

      late of yarmouth.

      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.

      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,

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