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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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A SPECULATION.

Of all speculations the market holds forth,
The best that I know for a lover of pelf,
Is to buy Marcus up, at the price he is worth,
And then sell him at that which he sets on himself.