“Lift up one corner of the curtain for me. The jailers robbed the prisoners: the prisoners robbed one another. But a total stranger, a man you never saw twentyfour hours ago! It can't be thought of. I naturally want to do it up in proper style. I am safe while I am there, for I have had bolts fitted everywhere, and a pane of glass in the front door. Such was the simple code that displayed itself in all his thoughts. "We're merely about to discharge our duty by apprehending a rebel. ’ ‘Oh, you are, are you?’ said the nun, evidently not mollified, but she was forestalled. Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles— those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets, and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the "Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room, called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare.
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