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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)
  
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25. On the last Epigram.

How, how, am I deceiv'd, that speake to thee
Of Intrest, when the purchase was in Fee!
Thou mad'st a cleane Conveyance to the Ten,
And ne're expectd'st the Principall agen:
Lord, we must reckon by another Rate:
They gave not one yeares Purchase for th'Estate:
Lord, how we palter with thee! We pretend
A present Payment, till w'obtaine our End:
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And then we crave, and crave a longer Day,
Then pay in Driblets, or else, never pay.
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