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What do you say?" For a little time Gryson said nothing. When he spoke it was evident that the lust for vengeance and a guilty conscience were fighting an even-handed battle. "I could get the affidavits maybe," he said. "There's a dozen 'r more of the cullies down-along got their notice to fade away when I got mine, and they'd jump at th' chance to get back at the bosses.
I say 'twas done like a wise Man, Sir; but under favour, Gentlemen, this Wasteall is a Rascal Noi. A very Rascal, Sir, and a most dangerous Fellow he cullies in your Prentices and Cashiers to play which ruins so many o'th' young Fry i'th' City Sir Cau. Hum does he so d'ye hear that, Edward? Noi. Then he keeps a private Press, and prints your Amsterdam and Leyden Libels. Sir Cau.
And after all, do we not frequently become the cullies of our own libertinism; sliding into the very state with those half-worn-out doxies, which perhaps we might have entered into with their ladies; at least with their superiors both in degree and fortune? and all the time lived handsomely like ourselves; not sneaking into holes and corners; and, when we crept abroad with our women, looking about us, and at ever one that passed us, as if we were confessedly accountable to the censures of all honest people.
p. 249 he cullies. To cully = to cheat; trick. For the verb, cf. Pomfret, Poems , Divine Attributes: 'Tricks to cully fools. p. 249 he pads. The substantive 'pad' = a path or highway.
What gentleman will descend to this low way of intrigue, when he shall consider that he has a footboy or an apprentice for his rival, and that he is seldom or never admitted, but when they have been his tasters; and the fool of fortune, though he comes at the latter end of the feast, yet pays the whole reckoning; and so indeed would I have all such silly cullies served.
Thus, though the Mall, the Ring, the Pit is full, And every Coffee-House still swarms with Fool; Though still by Fools all other Callings live, Nay our own Women by fresh Cullies thrive, Though your Intrigues which no Lampoon can cure, Promise a long Succession to ensure; And all your Matches plenty do presage: Dire is the Dearth and Famine on the Stage.
This London companion more and more inclined him to vice, and the history he gave of his living with a woman who cheated her other cullies to maintain him, and at last for the sake of a new sweetheart, stripped him of all he had one night while he slept, and left him so much in debt that he was obliged to fly into the country the relation, I say, of these adventures made such an impression on young Neal that he was never at rest until he fell into a method of copying them.
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