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laft Hour was fpent in lamenting and bewailing his 

 Sins in general, exhorting the. Spectators to an lio- 

 neft and good Life, in which alone they could And 

 Satisfa£l:ion. In the End, he defir'd they would join 

 with him in fmging two or three latter VerJfes of the 

 140th Pfalm J and that being concluded, he was, at 

 the firing of a Gun, tric'd up at the Fore-Yard-Arm. 



Btime was a young Man, not above 26 Years old, 

 but made the moft pathetical Speech of any at: 

 the Gallows* He firft declaim'd againft the guilded 

 Bates of Power, Liberty, and Wealth, that had 

 enfnar'd him among the Pyrates, his unexperienced 

 Years not being able to withftand the Temptation ; 

 but that the Brisknefs he had lliewn, which lb fii- 

 tally had procured him Favour amongft them, was 

 not fo much a Fault in Principle, as the Livelinels 

 and Vivacity of his Nature. He was now eX- 

 treamly afflifted for the Injuries he had done to 

 all Men, and beggM their's and God's Forgivenefs, 

 very earneitly exhorting theSpeftators to'^remem- 

 ber their Creator in their Youth, and guard be- 

 times, that their Minds took not a wrong Bya% 

 concluding with this apt Similitude, That he flood 

 there as a Beacon tipn a Rcck^ (the Gallows fianding on 

 one) to vp^rn erring Marriners of Danger • 



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