I try & mean To gain One morefriend, That will spend His Money free, And deal with me: Fancy form'd the Scheme, And I chiefly aim At this to make my Verse, Sink deep into your Purse; If your Guineas Face to Face, Fretting are, for want of Space, In Pity set the Pris'ners free, And leave a few of them with me. Yellow-Boys properly suit my wants; If your's are all white Inhabitants, Half-Crowns or Shillings - Sixpences will do; Indeed I long to singer one or two. If your's are but Half-Pence, I. Crane, at the Top, Sits there - and invites you to come to his Shop-Since the Envy of Foes, and the Favours of Friends, Are most luckily blended to answer my Ends. Thank you, my Friends, for the burrying Times I have seen. And you my Foes too, for all the spare Minutes between. When Good-Will leads you to my Shop, then I will use you well, My Goods I wish you all to Want-Because-I want to sell

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Birmingham] Printed by Swinney and Hawkins, No. 75. High Street Birmingham 1800, [1800?]
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:Above the pyramid of text is a circular engraving incorporating the name "I. Crane", and below the pyramid are three columns of verse beginning "To pay your visits, friends, be free. - An advertisement for John Crane, shopkeeper. - English Short Title Catalog, T188600. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). - Text in a pyramid, flanked on either side by verse, the left beginning "You stare, my friends! and well you may
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (1 sheet) ill 1/2°