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Updated: July 10, 2026

In this sort did I spend some leisure hours during my confinement in Bridewell, especially after our return from Newgate thither, when we had more liberty, and more opportunity and room for retirement and thought: for, as the poet said, Carmina scribentes secessum et otia quaerunt. They who would write in measure, Retire where they may, stillness have and pleasure.

Thomas Ellwood - The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself