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Show 4 6 The Hiilory of George Barnwell, and to that End, I fummon'd all m y Arts. You call'em wicked, be it fo, they are fuch as m y Convention with your Sex had iurniuYd m e withai: Thor. Sure none but the worft of M e n convert d with ihe° Mill M e n of all Degrees and all Profeflions I have known, yet found no Difference, but in their feveral Ca-parities- all were alike wicked to the utmoft of their Power In Pride, Contention, Avarice, Cruelty, and Revenge, the Reverend Priefthood were m y unerring Guides. From Suburb-Magiftrates, w h o live by ru n'u Reputations, as the anhofphabie Natives of Cornwall do by ShipwrackS, I iearn'd, that to charge m y innocent Neighbour, with m y Crimes, was to merit their Protech. on • for to fcreen the Guilty, is the lefs fcandalous, when many are fnfrected ; and Detraction, like Dart nefs and Death, blackens all Objects, ?nd levels all M unction. Such are your venal Magiftrates, who favour none but fuch as, by their Office, the/ are fworntopo-nifh ; with them not to be guilty, is the worft oi Crimes; and large Fees privately paid, is very needful Vir-tue Thor Your Praclife has fufficiently difcover'd Con-tempt of Laws, both human and divine ; no wonder then that you mould hate the Officers of both. mill. I know you, and I hate yon all; I expect no Mercy and I ask for none; I followed m y Inclinations, mid th'at the beft of yo > do ev.ry Day. All Actions feem like natural and indifferent to M a n and Beaft ; who devour, or are devour'd, as they meet with others weaker or ftronger than themfeives. Thor. What 1 ity it is, a Mind fo ccmprehenhVe, daring and inquifitive, mould be a granger to Religious fweet and powerful Charms. , Mill. I am not Fool enough to be an Atheift, thougn I have known enough of Men's Hypocrify to niaite a thoufand fimple W o m e n fo. Vvhatevtr Religionist itfeif, as practifed by Mankind, it has caus'd the hvA you fay, it was defign'd to cure. War, Plague, andr> mine has not deftroyed fo many of the human Race, . pretended Piety has done; and With fuch ba^b a r°1 i Vie London Merchant: Or, 47 Cruelty, as if the only way to honour Heaven, were to turn the prelent World into^ell. Thor. Truth is Truth, tho' from an Enemy, and fpoke in xViabce. You bloody, blind and fuperftmous Bigots, how will you anfwer this ? Mill. What are your Laws of which you make your Boaft, but the Fool's Wifdom, and the Coward's Valour; the Initrument and Skreen of ailyMir Villanies, by which you punifh in others what you ad yourfeives, or would have acted, had you been in their Circumftances. The Judge who condemns the poor M a n for being a Thief had been a Thief nimfelf, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving, and being deceiv'd, harraffing, plaguing, and deftroying one another; but W o m e n are your univerfal Prey. Women, by whom you are, the Source of Jcy\ Withe uel Arts ycu labour to deftrov : " A thoufand Ways our Ruin topurfue, Tet blame in us there Arts firft taught bv vou. Ufo ma,, j rem hence, talk violated Maid, %riiri%yffthhfh burl'reus Men betray'd; VVben robbd,}Innocence, and Virgin Famf, From ycur T)ffrU:Uon raifi a nfflp Name ; lift! tbTJ^s W r ^ # $ « tUiK Mindr Andfiture Millwoods^-, tongue Mankind! The Eml of the Fourth A C T. A c T V. S C E N E I 4 Room in a PrifvU. Enter Thorowgood, Blunt, and U, • 1 T-tororgooa. Have recommended to ft. whofe Judgment and i ™ V1 k w i n < i Divine, ^gieaed, but me, unhappy • |