Oh, Hocus! Hocus! where art thou?
It used to go another-guess manner in thy time.

When a poor man has almost undone himself for thy sake, thou art for fleecing him, and fleecing him.

Is that thy conscience, John?
JOHN BULL .-- Very pleasant, indeed! It is well known thou retainest thy lawyers by the year, so a fresh lawsuit adds but little to thy expenses; they are thy customers;* I hardly ever sell them a farthing's-worth of anything.

Nay, thou hast set up an eating-house, where the whole tribe of them spend all they can rap or run.

If it were well reckoned, I believe thou gettest more of my money than thou spendest of thy own.
However, if thou wilt needs plead poverty, own at least that thy accounts are false.
* The money spent in Holland and Flanders.
NIC.