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BODLEIM

11 DEC. 1931

LIBRARY.

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PREFACE.

How W! The Pleafant Art of Money-Catching,

fay you? Yes, indeed; the very fame, I'll
affure ye: and if any judgment can be made from
the common difcourfe, there was never more need of it
than now : and therefore now I think I have
nick'd the humour of the age; by adapting this
Treatife to every man's ufe: for who would not wil-
lingly part with a fhilling to gain a pound; nay, as
it may fall out, a thousand pounds? And if fo,
What can more commend itself than the pleasant art
of Money-Catching? For who is there that would not
be willing to learn it? Efpecially at a time when
it is fo hard to get it; and in which the generality
of men know the worth of it mostly by the want of
it; and are even ready to fend out an hue and cry
after it.
There is no money to be had, cries one: I
never knew trading fo dead, cries another: I hardly
take what keeps my house, cries a third. Thus all
complain for want of money and what can be a
greater argument of its worth, than when every one
courts it, and languishes because of its abfence: and
Seems to fay,

Return, return, thou charming Nymph, again:
For of thy abfence all men do complain,
From quality, down to the humble fwain:
For unto thee they all do homage pay:
For thee they ftrive, for thee they pray:
And grow impatient of thy longer stay.

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For thee the Ladies of delight,

Do amble round the ftreets by night:
And, unafhamed, often do

In Bridewel fuffer for it too:
Even from the plain stuff gown,
To Whores of quality and high renown,
They are thy humbly flaves:

Nor can the dreadful fire,

By which they oftentimes expire,
Tumbling half rotten to their graves;
Nor yet the Surgeon's powdering-tub,
Where their old fores they fcrub,
Fright them from their allegiance; till they be
Devoted flaves and fubjects unto thee.

For thee, the Soldiers, with heroic grace,
Do death in all its horrid forms out-face:
It is for thee they valiantly do fight;

March all the day, and lie i'th' fields all night:
For thee the Lawyer, too his lungs do fpend,
For whilft thou ftayeft, the cause will never end,

Vintners for thee (fo custom does enjoin)

To pleafe their guefts, drink their own poisoned wine;
Thou mak'ft Phyficians to their patients go:
Who but for thee, would no compaffion fhow.
Nay, the Divine, whofe duty 'tis to teach,
Wer't not for thee, would hardly ever preach.

Thus perfons of all qualities and all professions make their court to Money; the gaining of which, as if it were the great Diana of the world, is the chief mark they aim at, in all their undertakings: and therefore to inform them how they may catch his coy Miftrefs, and embrace her in their own arms, muft needs be a very pleafant art. And fo much, I doubt not, every one will be fo civil as to grant me. But then their next

queftion will be, How muft this be done? Not faft, Gentlemen; 'tis a matter of great moment, and must not be flightly huddled over: and therefore I hope you do not expect I should tell you in the Preface; for I am fure, I do not intend it; for then the reading of the book would be needlefs, But this I will affure you, that whatever I have promifed in

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the Title, I will make good in the book. With feveral · other useful and necessary inftructions; which if tradesmen and others would diligently perufe and put into practice, they would get more than they do, and not be in danger of lofing fo much for here they may fee fo many feveral ways of turning a penny, that if they do not thrive, it will be their own faults: and whether they be like to thrive or not, they may alfo know, if they will but give themfelves the trouble of comparing their own management with the rules containted in the following Treatife. Which if they had been fooner known, or at least better followed, might have prevented many of thofe ftatutes of Bankruptcy, which have every week taken up fo much room in our Gazettes. And if fuch a fubject do not pleafe I will even fling my pen away.

EWELL

THE

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PLEASANT ART

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MONEY-CATCHING..

CHAP. I..

Of the original Invention of Money.

HEN commerce and traffic was first begun

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in the world, and men came to trade one with another, there was no use of Money, nor no need of it; for men bartered their goods in exchange with each other and as in the infancy of the world, fome were tillers of the ground, and others were keepers of fheep; the one gave the other corn, and took of their fheep in exchange for it. And this fort of trading is now generally in use in our Plantations, to fupply the want of Money: but in procefs of time, as trading increased, fo did luxury begin to abound;, and as luxury abounded, fo men's wants grew greater: which begat a neceffity of fome other way of commerce: and this was Money; which is of that antiquity, that Jofephus tells us, That Cain (the fon of Adam, and the firftborn of men) was very greedy in gathering of money together;

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