"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
An Imitation of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1715, 1727).<br>
<br>
Text from <u>Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales, &c.</u> (London: Bernard Lintot, 1727). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139205">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TrArAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
See also <u>An Imitation of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace. Inscribed to the Right Honourable James Stanhope, Esq; One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.</u> (London: Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, 1715). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111153774&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;