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Excerpt from Infernal Conference Or, Dialogues of Devils on the Many Vices Which Abound, Vol. 2 of 2: In the Civil and Religious World
Accordingly when Squire Broadfield and me arrived in company to see the sport, there was the poor rascal, whose poverty was his principal crime, tied to the post and mangled with the cord, which the lusty beedle plied with nervous arm. Oh how his worship and me did iaugh to see the'villain whose poverty was obstinate, leaping, as his lameness would let him, and writhing his bloody back, as the whip was lustily played about him by the sturdy beedle; who for h's part; would rob and steal and do any thing rather than be whipped by a trusty brother of the trade yea, would act ten thou. Sand villainies rather than die of hunger. This fellow must be a most incorrigible rogue to be sure, if he 18 not willing by this time either to steal and be hanged, or patiently to die of an empty belly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
