Social Commentaries
On Banks, the Usurer
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language (ed. James Parton)
Social Commentaries
Banks feels no lameness of his knotty gout,
His moneys travel for him in and out,
And though the soundest legs go every day,
He toils to be at hell, as soon as they.
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