Buy but York-buildings, and the cistern there
Will sink more pence than any fool can spare.’
“A ship-building company is thus ridiculed:
‘Who but a nest of blockheads to their cost
Would build new ships for freight when trade is lost?
To raise fresh barques must surely be amusing,
When hundreds rot in dock for want of using.’
“The Pennsylvania Land Company comes in for a share of the satire:
‘Come, all ye saints, that would for little buy
Great tracts of land, and care not where they lie,