An illustration of the devil and a spendthrift gentleman who had used up the entirety of his inheritance. "on a time, hee being alone fulle of griefe and care, (griefe for his folies past, and care how to get a poore living for the remainder of his dayes) the devill came to him and asked him what hee wanted (hee came not in a shape terrible, but like an old penny-father. )" (p. 51). Date: 1904.
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