“Oh but,” said Daniel, “that’s a dangerous plan;

He may be robb’d like any other man:”

“Still he is bound, and you may be at rest,

More safe the money than within your chest;

And you’ll receive, from all deductions clear,

Five pounds for every hundred, every year.”

“What good in that?” quoth Daniel, “for ’tis plain,

If part I take, there can but part remain:”

“What! you, my friend, so skill’d in gainful things,

Have you to learn what Interest money brings?”