But then the risk was all my own;
And, if you had but ventur'd more,
Your purse might now be running o'er.
With a round sum to-morrow night,
Fortune may set all matters right:
As 'tis in war, so 'tis with gold,
She fails not to protect the bold."
Our Hero was not such a Flat
As to sit down content with that:
He first determin'd to resist