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A PROMISE TO PAY by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: SAID DICK, 'THE TEN POUND WHICH YOU LENT T'OTHER DAY
Last Line: "AS MUCH IN THE SHAPE OF TEN POUND AS YOU CAN."
Subject(s): MONEY; PROMISES;

SAID Dick, "The ten pound which you lent t'other day,
I hope soon, in some shape or other, to pay."
" 'In some shape or other!' but pray, my good man,
As much in the shape of ten pound as you can."



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