THE
NATURE,
NOBILITY,
Character, and Complement
OF
MONEY.
Nam Genus & Formam Regina Pecunia donat.
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IN this word [MONEY] more is comprehended
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Than ever Tongue declard, or Pen commended:
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It governs all the Land, circles the Sea,
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And is the Worldlings Primum Mobile.
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Money hath such an influence on Men,
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It sets up Kings, and plucks em down again.
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Money! it is the Crown of all Events;
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It doth compound for all Impediments;
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It is a Spell that doth all Spirits raise,
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Honour, Health, Power, Pleasure, Profit, Praise.
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Quaery. But will it buy Content? or can it cure
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A cancerous Conscience? (Answer) Nothing hits more sure.
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For you shall read in many a Roman Story,
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Money can free the Soul from Purgatory:
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It makes the Pope Infallible to be;
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Because tis more infallible than he.
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For Money, Men are int all hazzards hurld,
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Tis the adored Idol of the World.
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Though one Sect damn another, yet, in fine,
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Theyr all Devotas at Pecunias Shrine:
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Albeit in Arguments they rant and tear,
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Plot and Confound, Theyr all of one Mind there.
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The simple-seeming Quaker that will shun-ye
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In points of holiness, will take thy Money.
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The Scripture Pedlers that do prate and cant,
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And cry the Laurd, Moneys the meaning ont:
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Amongst some Sects which different Tenents hold,
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The Gospel is but a new name for Gold;
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And sacred Offices are often sold
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For Secular Silver. As, in dayes of old,
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All plenty was comprizd in Milk and Honey;
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So in these dayes all merit lies in Money.
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It is and doth all things in every Cause;
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It gives new meanings unto old made Laws.
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Nothing but Money can do and undo:
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Tis Pro and Con, and Moderator too.
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If this thing Money were not all in all,
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How could the Sciences be Liberal?
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It doth maintain the Court, the Camp, the School;
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The greatest Politicians but a Fool,
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If he want Money: tis so bright, so funny,
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That Men sell Houses, Lands, and Towns, for Money.
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Down Kirk, down State, down every thing must fall,
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Rather than want Interest and Principal.
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Money doth comprehend Lawyers and Laws;
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It [is] a Chancellor in every Cause.
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Meum and Tuum are the Bounds of Right;
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Yet for all this Meum and Tuum fight:
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Though Meum have the Milk, Tuum the Honey;
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Yet Tuum will fall out for Meums Money.
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It rules both Right and Wrong. What makes this stir
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Betwixt the French, Dutch, and the Emperor,
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But Money, or what [Money] doth bring forth.
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Navyes and Nations? Tis all Moneys w[orth.]
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Money is Sovereign of Sea and Shore;
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It doth at once, both make and heal the Sore;
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It bids defiance to all shapes of Slaughter
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At Sea, it makes Men run through Fire and Water,
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Soar to the Sun, and sink to the Seas center,
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Dare Death in all his glories, so the venter
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Doth produce Money, though but one small ray;
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A Souldier will do this for a Months pay.
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When Money her allicient look extends,
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Some Men will truck for Fathers, Brothers, Friends,
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Which makes me pray, the King may keep his hold:
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His Father was the price of Gadly Gold;
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And His King too, though of celestial birth:
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Twas Money bought the King of Heaven and Earth;
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And that same fatal Money made the Elf,
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That treacherous Treasurer, to sell himself
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Eternally, where Moneys influence
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Is of no power to buy him back from thence.
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Money doth all things else; twere, of the two,
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Shorter to say what Money cannot do,
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Than what it can; our Priviledges, Laws,
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Religion, Reformation, Good old Cause,
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Are all but words for Money; It doth teach
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The Courtier how to Flatter, Priests to Preach,
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Souldier to Swear, and Citizen to Lye,
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And is the vital Blood of Soveraignty.
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It makes the Aged Young, the Crooked Streight,
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The Dwarf a Giant, The Fool Fortunate.
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To close up all, (for I but briefly shew em)
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It is fitter for a Volume than a Poem.
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Ile leave this Theme to those that better know it,
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Moneys too great a stranger to a Poet.
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