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The History of John Bull

CHAPTER VIII
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More money for more law was plain to a demonstration, for who can go to law without money?
and it was plain that any man that has money may have law for it.

The third was as evident as the other two; for what composition could be made with a rogue that never kept a word he said?
MRS.

BULL .-- I think you are most likely to get out of this labyrinth by the second door, by want of ready money to purchase this precious commodity.

But you seem not only to have bought too much of it, but have paid too dear for what you bought, else how was it possible to run so much in debt when at this very time the yearly income of what is mortgaged to those usurers would discharge Hocus's bills, and give you your bellyfull of law for all your life, without running one sixpence in debt?
You have been bred up to business; I suppose you can cypher; I wonder you never used your pen and ink.
JOHN BULL .-- Now you urge me too far; prithee, dear wife, hold thy tongue.

Suppose a young heir, heedless, raw, and inexperienced, full of spirit and vigour, with a favourite passion, in the hands of money scriveners.


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