Transcribed from the 1858 William Tweedie edition by David Price, email
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THE
NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.
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BY
J. EWING RITCHIE,
AUTHOR OF THE "LONDON PULPIT," ETC.
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"In cities vice is hidden with most ease.
Or seen with least reproach.
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I do confess them nurseries of the arts.
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Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim'd
The fairest capital of all the world,
By riot and incontinence the worst."
COWPER.
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Second Edition, revised.
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LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
MDCCCLVIII.
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