ask what thou hast done? Look back upon a dreadful misspent life, and ask thyself what thou hast

not

done? Ask, why is it that thou wert not long ago destroyed? Why wert thou not drowned in Yarmouth Roads; killed in the fight when the ship was taken by the Sallee man-of-war; devoured by the wild beasts on the coast of Africa; or drowned

here

, when all the crew perished but thyself? Dost