A historiated letter n with an old usurer. "not farre from fryer bacon, dwelt an olde man that had great store of money which hee let out to use, and would never doe any good with it to the poore, though fryer bacon had often put him in minde of it, and wished him to do some good whilest he lived. . At last this old good-gatherer went to looke on this pot of gold, but instead of gold he found nothing but earth, at which sight he would have died, had not his other gold hindred him, which hee was to leave behind him: so gathering up his spirits, hee went to fryer bacon, and told him he was abused and cheated; for which he would have the law of him, unlesse he made him restitution. As for the law he feared it not, but bid him doe his worst. " (p. 76). Date: 1904.
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