A design in two compartments. On the left is the interior of a church, the pulpit in the foreground (left) with the head of the clerk below. In the background are the pews in the body of the church and a gallery with a congregation (freely sketched). A good-looking young parson stands in the pulpit, his eyes raised sanctimoniously.  Beneath the design: 'Good Precepts \ do as I say'.
<p><br>On the right the parson, very drunk and dishevelled, is leaving a brothel, his arm round the waist of a prostitute with whom he has exchanged hats. He flourishes a cane; his pockets hang out empty; from them fall playing-cards and a 'Book of Common Prayer'. The girl has picked his pocket and holds out his watch and seals to a woman in the open doorway (right) behind her. Over the door: 'Dealer in Spiritual Liquor', and beside it: 'Lodging for Gentlemen'. In the background under an arcade which indicates the Piazza, Covent Garden, a watchman walks with a lantern. Beneath the design: 'But bad Examples \  - not as I do - '. BMSat 9647 has the same title.  20 January 1794.
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<p>Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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<dl><dd>Published by: S W Fores</dd></dl></div>
1794<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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