RECAB.
For what purpose do those crowds of people continually hasten backwards and forwards?
BELPHEGOR.
Each of them has a separate design in view; many are transacting their own business and ours at the same time. Money is the chief pursuit of all those in the part of the town now under us.
RECAB.
I have heard of money in my conversations with the dead; pray show it to me, for I know not what it is.
BELPHEGOR.
In many places you may see one man giving to another a small shining thing; that is money.
RECAB.
Can that be the famous thing that I have heard of? I have been told that money is one of the most powerful beings in the universe, and as artful as Satan himself; that its eloquence is irresistible; that it is always in confederacy with us, and the most powerful ally we have; that it commits innumerable crimes, and subverts both the integrity of men and the modesty of women.