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matic of the treatment within ; and thefe not 

 correfponding, fhould be puniflied with the 

 /ofs of licence upon refpedtable information. 

 As it is, influenced by the power of external 

 purity, wx enter the gates of '* an Angel," 

 and in a few minutes repentantly perceive 

 we have been induced to encounter A Devil* 

 Where we are taught to exped: meeknefs 

 from ** THE Lamb,'" we frequently find the 

 ferocity of a Lion. At the *' head of a 

 King,"' we meet accommodations for a 

 CoBLER. At a Castle, the manners of a 

 Cottage. At the Rose, we are furrounded 

 with Thorns ; and at the White Raven 

 we difcover a Rook. 



Returning however from a flight digreflion 

 to the fubjedt in agitation, I muft confefs, 

 ostlers are a very ufeful body of men indi- 

 vidually coniidered ; but long experience and 

 attentive obfervation have rendered it an in- 

 variable rule with me, to adopt the good old 

 maxim of *' never trufting \}i\Q,\w farther than 

 lean fee them;" and this upon the recollecftion* 

 of a falfe 7nanger having been di Covered at a 

 principal inn in the town of my nativity, in 

 the days of juvenility ; and the correfpond- 

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