But if you trust him with a larger piece,

And there be change to give; mark how the knave

Now counts in Attic coin, and thus achieves

A two-fold robbery in the same transaction! —J. A. St. John.


Xenarchus. (Book vi. § 6, p. 357.)

Poets indeed! I should be glad to know

Of what they have to boast. Invention—no!

They invent nothing, but they pilfer much,

Change and invert the order, and pretend