Note 299 — Chapter IV · A BOAR-HUNT.
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“Blest paper credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! Gold, imp’d by thee, can compass hardest things, Can pocket states, can fetch and carry kings. A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or carry statesmen to some distant shore; A leaf like —’s scatter to and fro Our fates and fortunes as the wind shall blow.”—Pope.