Note 153:A — Chapter V
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"Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them. Till he hath received he will kiss a man's hand; and for his neighbour's money he will speak submissively: but when he should repay he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time."—Ecclesiasticus, B.C. 200.
An old English proverb declares that "Lent seems short to him that borrows money to be paid at Easter."