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  16   The Fortuns and Misfortunes

I aſked one of this crew, How long ſhe hod been there; ſhe ſaid, for four months; I ſeemed to lament for her. What ſignifies being ſad, ſays ſhe, for if I am hang'd there's an end of me, and away ſhe turns, dancing and ſing- ing as ſhe goes: If I ſwing by the ſtring, I ſhall hear the bell ring; And that's an end of poor Fenney. But my old tutoreſs did what ſhe could to make me eaſy in this diſmal place, and furniſhed me with beding, and prevailed with my keeper to let me  have a ſmall place by myſelf, by giving him ſome money, for there are no  favours to be got without it. I lived many days here under the utmoſt horror of foul; and the Ordi- nary of Newgate come to me, and talked a little to me, but all his divi- nity ran upon confeſſing my crime, and making a full diſcovery, without which he told me, God would never forgive me; and would preach con- feſſion and repentance to me in the morning, and I would find him drunk with ſpirits by noon, which ſhocked

A bell that tolls on execution days.