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 lat Hour was pent in lamenting and bewailing his Sins in general, exhorting the Spectators to an honet and good Life, in which alone they could find Satifaction. In the End, he deir’d they would join with him in inging two or three latter Veres of the 140th Palm; and that being concluded, he was, at the firing of a Gun, tric’d up at the Fore-Yard-Arm.

Bunce was a young Man, not above 26 Years old, but made the mot pathetical Speech of any at the Gallows. He firt declaim’d againt the guilded Bates of Power, Liberty, and Wealth, that had ennar’d him among the Pyrates, his unexperienc’d Years not being able to withtand the Temptation; but that the Brisknes he had hewn, which o fatally had procured him Favour amongt them, was not o much a Fault in Principle, as the Livelines and Vivacity of his Nature. He was now extreamly afflicted for the Injuries he had done to all Men, and begg’d their’s and God’s Forgivenes, very earnetly exhorting the Spectators to remember their Creator in their Youth, and guard betimes, that their Minds took not a wrong Byas, concluding with this apt Similitude, (the Gallows tanding on one)