18. The Poor and their Dwellings

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235

19. The Poor of the Borough-The Parish Clerk 253

20. The Poor of the Borough-Ellen Orford - 267

21. The Poor of the Borough-Abel Keene -

22. The Poor of the Borough-Peter Grimes

23. Prisons

24. Schools

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- 297

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327

THE BOROUGH.

THE BOROUGH.

LETTER I.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

These did the Ruler of the Deep ordain,
To build proud Navies, and to rule the Main.

Pope's Homer's Iliad, Book vi. line 45,

Such scenes has Deptford, Navy-building town,
Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch;

Such Lambeth, envy of each band and gown,
And Twickenham such, which fairer scenes enrich.

Pope's Imitation of Spenser.

Et cum cœlestibus undis

Equoreæ miscentur aquæ: caret ignibus æther,
Cacaque nox premitur tenebris hiemisque suisque,
Discutient tamen has, præbentque micantia lumen
Fulmina fulmineis ardescant ignibus undæ.

Ovid. Metamorph. lib. xi. ver. $20.