SENTIMENTAL ACQUITTANCE;
OR, AN EASY WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS: CONVENIENTLY ADOPTED BY CERTAIN PLAUSIBLE DECLAIMERS,
ACCORDING TO A FAVOURITE MORAL MAXIM EXHIBITED IN PRIOR'S EPIGRAM.
I owed to John great obligation;
But John, unhappily, thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.
THE ANSWER.
Mat with my purse bought food and raiment;
But Mat, my claim to quash,
Tenders a scrap of wit in payment;
I wish it had been cash.
ANOTHER, BY R. N. ESQ.
With gratitude no longer glow,
Since friendship's laws I so forget;
Yet sure the equivalent you owe,
Renounce the friend—but pay the debt.
