Social Commentaries
Money, a fruitfull commodity
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
As with coyn'd Metalls we our Trades maintaine,
So th' Indians Trafficke with their fruits for gaine:
Yet doe our dealings no lesse fruite inferre
Than theirs; How comes that? aske the Vsurer.
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