Only promise me to amend--to quit your vile companions--and I will forgive you--will bless you.

Oh! my dear, dear son, be warned in time.

You are in the hands of a wicked, a terrible man, who will not stop till he has completed your destruction.
Listen to your mother's prayers, and do not let her die broken-hearted." "It is too late," returned Jack, sullenly; "I can't be honest if I would." "Oh! do not say so," replied his wretched parent.

"It is never too late.
I know you are in Jonathan Wild's power, for I saw him near you in the church; and if ever the enemy of mankind was permitted to take human form, I beheld him then.

Beware of him, my son! Beware of him! You know not what villany he is capable of.