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THB HARLOTS I
PLATE IV.
WitVpallid cheek and haggard eye.
And loud laments, and heartfelt sigh,
Unpitied, hopeless of relief,
She drinks the bitter cup of grief.
In vain the sigh, in vain the tear,
Compassion never enters here;-----
But justice clanks her iron chain,
* ' And calls Forth shame, remorse, and pain. E,
The situation in which the last plate exhibited
bur wretched female, was sufficiently degrading, but
in this her misery Is greatly aggravated. We now
see her suffering the chastisement due to her fol-
lies; reduced to the wretched alternative of beating
hemp, or receiving the correction of a savage task-
master.* Exposed to the derision of ail around;
* SuCh well dressed females are rarely met with in our
present house of correction; but her splendid appearance is
sufficiently warranted by the following paragraph in the
Grub-street Journal of September i+th, 1730.
•' One Mary Moffat, a woman of great note in the hun-
" dreds of Dniry, who, about a fortnight ago was committed
" to hard labour in Tothill-fields, Bridewell, by nine justices,
" brought his majesty's writ of habeas corpus, and was car-
** ried before the right honourable the lord chief justice Ray-
" mond, expecting to have been either bailed or discharged;
" but her commitment appearing to be legal, his lordship
" thought lit to remand her back again to her former place
" of confinement, where sbe is now beating bemp in a gown
" very rkbly laced with silver."
PLATE IV.
WitVpallid cheek and haggard eye.
And loud laments, and heartfelt sigh,
Unpitied, hopeless of relief,
She drinks the bitter cup of grief.
In vain the sigh, in vain the tear,
Compassion never enters here;-----
But justice clanks her iron chain,
* ' And calls Forth shame, remorse, and pain. E,
The situation in which the last plate exhibited
bur wretched female, was sufficiently degrading, but
in this her misery Is greatly aggravated. We now
see her suffering the chastisement due to her fol-
lies; reduced to the wretched alternative of beating
hemp, or receiving the correction of a savage task-
master.* Exposed to the derision of ail around;
* SuCh well dressed females are rarely met with in our
present house of correction; but her splendid appearance is
sufficiently warranted by the following paragraph in the
Grub-street Journal of September i+th, 1730.
•' One Mary Moffat, a woman of great note in the hun-
" dreds of Dniry, who, about a fortnight ago was committed
" to hard labour in Tothill-fields, Bridewell, by nine justices,
" brought his majesty's writ of habeas corpus, and was car-
** ried before the right honourable the lord chief justice Ray-
" mond, expecting to have been either bailed or discharged;
" but her commitment appearing to be legal, his lordship
" thought lit to remand her back again to her former place
" of confinement, where sbe is now beating bemp in a gown
" very rkbly laced with silver."