“What comes of buying shares with unlim’d liability.”
And first he plundered all his gold, and all he had beside,
And then he crushed him utterly, and sucked him till he died.
From Dizzi-Ben-Dizzi, 1878.
The Irish Spider and the English Fly.
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly.
“We can talk without disturbance, and no Tories can espy.
It is just across the Channel, you can very soon get there.