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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Money -- Poetry. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE NATURE , NOBILITY , Character , and Complement OF MONEY . Nam Genus & Formam Regina Pecunia donat . IN this word [ MONEY ] more is comprehended Than ever Tongue declar'd , or Pea commended : It governs all the Land , circles the Sea , And is the Worldling's Primum Mobile . Money hath such an influence on Men , It sets up Kings , and plucks'em down again . Money ! it is the Crown of all Events ; It doth compound for all Impediments ; It is a Spell that doth all Spirits raise ; Honour , Health , Power , Pleasure , Profit , Praise . Quaery . But will it buy Content ? or can it cure A cancerous Conscience ? ( Answ . ) Nothing hits more sure . For you shall read in many a Roman Story , Money can free the Soul from Purgatory : It makes the Pope Infallible to be ; Because'tis more infallible than he . For Money , Men are in t ' all hazzards hurld , 'T is the adored Idol of the World. Though one Sect damn another , yet , in fine , They 'r all Devota's at Pecunia's Shrine : Albeit in Arguments they rant and tear , Plot and Confound , They 'r all of one Mind there . The simple-seeming Quaker that will shun-ye In points of holiness , will take thy Money . The Scripture Pedlers that do prate and cant , And cry the Laurd , Money 's the meaning on 't : Amongst some Sects which different Tenents hold , The Gospel is but a new name for Gold ; And sacred Offices are often sold For Secular Silver . As , in dayes of old , All plenty was compriz'd in Milk and Honey ; So in these dayes all merit lies in Money . It is and doth all things in every Cause ; It gives new meanings unto old made Laws . Nothing but Money can do and undo : 'T is Pro and Con , and Moderator too . If this thing Money were not all in all , How could the Sciences be Liberal ? It doth maintain the Court , the Camp , the School ; The greatest Politician's but a Fool , If he want Money : 't is so bright , so sunny , That Men sell Houses , Lands , and Towns , for Money . Down Kirk , down State , down every thing must fall , Rather than want Interest and Principal . Money doth comprehend Lawyers and Laws ; It is a Chancellor in every Cause . Meum and Tuum are the Bounds of Right ; Yet for all this Meum and Tuum fight : Though Meum have the Milk , Tuum the Honey ; Yet Tuum will fall out for Meum's Money . It rules both Right and Wrong . What makes this stir Betwixt the French , Dutch , and the Emperor , But Money , or what Money doth bring forth , Navyes and Nations ? 'T is all Money 's worth : Money is Sovereign of Sea and Shore ; It doth at once , both make and heal the Sore ; It bids defiance to all shapes of Slaughter At Sea , it makes Men run through Fire and Water , Soar to the Sun , and sink to the Sea's center , Dare Death in all his glories , so the venter Doth produce Money , though but one small ray ; A Souldier will do this for a Month's pay . When Money her allicient look extends , Some Men will truck for Fathers , Brothers , Friends , Which makes me pray , the King may keep his hold : His Father was the price of Gadly Gold ; And His King too , though of celestial birth : 'T was Money bought the King of Heaven and Earth ; And that same fatal Money made the Elf , That treacherous Treasurer , to sell himself Eternally , where Money 's influence Is of no power to buy him back from thence . Money doth all things else ; 't were , of the two , Shorter to say what Money cannot do , Than what it can ; our Priviledges , Laws , Religion , Reformation , Good old Cause , Are all but words for Money ; It doth teach The Courtier how to Flatter , Priests to Preach , Souldier to Swear , and Citizen to Lye , And is the vital Blood of Soveraignty . It makes the Aged Young , the Crooked Streight , The Dwarf a Giant , The Fool Fortunate . To close up all , ( for I but briesly shew 'em ) It is fitter for a Volume than a Poem . I 'le leave this Theme to those that better know it , Money 's too great a stranger to a Poet. T. J. LONDON , Printed for William Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane MDCLXXXIV .