provided with those that buy them: and thus with these ways, and some others which are too long to relate at this time, I can make a shift to spend fourty or fifty pound a year, to keep my suit of private cloaths, and to allow my Wench eight shillings a week, to whom I constantly pay that Portion; and I think my share of the Stock at present may amount to fourty pound. And thus you see, that though so many thousands go through the Scriveners hands, and so few through mine, yet I can make a shift to get some money out of our paper, as well as he out of his parchment; and I doubt not, but when I come out of my time, to do as well as the best of our trade; for having learnt so much in this Art, I question not but I shall put it in practice to my advantage. Thus did he put an end to his Discourse; and drinking a Pot or two more of Beer, having had some other merry discourse about the Scriveners Wench, and such like other matters, we parted; he, to go meet with some of his brother Booksellers, to take account of their private Stock; and I, to my Masters about my ordinary Imployments, still ruminating in my mind of all the passages that these two Blades the Scrivener and Bookseller had related to me; and from thence did conclude, that I should find all the rest of our Clubbing-brethren stored with the same Discourses; and now I meditated on nothing more then how I might get money enough, for that was the only thing that made crooked things straight; and if a man have enough of that, he may defie all men. It can make knees bow, and tongues speak against the native genius of the groaning heart; it supples more then oyl or fomentations, and can stiffen beyond the Summers Sun, or the Winters white-bearded cold. In this we differ from the ancient Heathen; they made _Jupiter_ their chief God, and we have crowned _Pluto_. He is Master of the _Muses_, and can buy their Voyce; the _Graces_ wait on him, _Mercury_ is his Messenger, _Mars_ comes to him for pay, _Venus_ is his prostitute; he can make _Vesta_ break her vow, he can have _Bacchus_ be merry with him, and _Ceres_ feast him when he lists; he is the sick mans _Æsculapius_, and the _Pallas_ of an empty brain; nor can _Cupid_ cause Love, but by his Golden-headed Arrow. Money is a general man, and without doubt excellently parted: _Petronius_ describes his Qualities. _Quisquis habet nummos, secura naviget aura: Fortunamque suo temperet arbitrio. Vxorem ducat Danaen, ipsumque licebit Acrisium jubeat credere quod Danaen: Carmina componat, declamat, concrepat, omnes Et peragat Causas, fitque Catone prior. Jurisconsultus, paret, non paret: habeto; Atque esto, quicquid Servius aut Labeo Multo loquar: quidvis nummis præsentibus opta, Et veniet: clausum possidet Arca Jovem._