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MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. the End of each Verſe he did repeat his Oath. Laſt of all, how that he ſhould go up to the Gallows; and deſired the Prayers of his Audience, and ended by curſing them all round. Methinks it had been a Sermon to a Rogue to hear him, and I wiſh it may have done good to ſome of the Company. Yet was his curſing very horrible, albeit to not a few it ſeemed a high Joke; but I do doubt that they underſtood the Song. After, to pay for my Supper, which coſt me 1s. 1d., beſides 4d., to the Waiter; and then Home in a Cab, it being late, and I fearing to anger my Wife, which coſt me 1s. more ; but I grudged not the Money, having been much diverted, and ſo to Bed.