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A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
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A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1751

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Gin Lane. Gin cursed fiend, with fury fraught, Makes human race a prey; It enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away. Virtue and truth, driv'n to despair, It's rage compells to fly, But cherishes, with hellish care, Theft, murder, perjury. Damn'd cup! that on the vitals preys, That liquid fire contains Which madness to the heart conveys, And rolls it thro' the veins. design'd by W. Hogarth

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