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NYEP(D.749.039
23 Oct 1749:11,12,21 (231)
From the Gentleman's Magazine, for the month of July.
The Advantage of being in Debt.
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Rabelais is one of those few authors, we cannot easily
quit. Tho' he is not always intelligible, yet as his very
mysteries are diverting, I shall make a farther extract from
him.
You can hardly imagine, continues Panurge, how glad I am,
when every morning I perceive myself surrounded by brigades
of creditors, humbly, fawning, and full of their reverences;
and whilst I look more favourable upon one, the fellow
conceits that he shall be first dispatched, and valueth my
smiles at the rate of ready money, it seemeth unto me, that
I then act and personate the God of the Passion of Saumur,
accompanied with angels and cherubims.
This Passion of Saumur, was a play that took mightily in
July 1534. It was no uncommon thing, in those times to
personate the divine being upon the stage in their impious
interludes. . .
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