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CJ-B.779.015
8 Apr 1779:11,12,13 (149)
From the United States Magazine. The Representation and
Remonstrance of Hard-Money. Addressed to the people of
America. . . [satirical personification of continental
currency.]
He may pretend the colds and heats, and fatigues of the
campaign, as the cause of that dropsy which he had
contracted; but I am well convinced that it was the
frequency of his attempt to enlarge himself, that encreased
the circle of his belly, and left him to walk about the
country with a paunch like a drum, or the cask of a wine-
celler merchant. . .
[Near the end, a quote from "the wise author of Hudibras":]
Though love be all the world's pretense,
Money's the mythologic sense;
The real substance of the shadow,
Which all address and courtship's made to . . .
And in another place--
'Tis not those orient pearls your teeth,
That we are so transported with;
But the bright guineas in your chests
That light the wild fire in our breasts.
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