For much amazed was that good man—"Indeed!"
Said he, with glad'ning eye, "will money breed?
How have I lived? I grieve, with all my heart,
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For my late knowledge in this precious art:—
Five pounds for every hundred will he give?
And then the hundred?——I begin to live."—
So he began, and other means he found,
As he went on, to multiply a pound:
Though blind so long to interest, all allow