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Stamp’d as for affixation to a [[boilerplate|servic’d boiler]] —<br> | Stamp’d as for affixation to a [[boilerplate|servic’d boiler]] —<br> | ||
Conceals a clever trick. <br> | Conceals a clever trick. <br> | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: | {{script|Ser Jaramey}}: What kind of onion’d witchery is this? <br> | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: He who’d trick an Assignee with bare unfreighted terms <br> | |||
{{script|Herculio}}: Hear me, though: | Might miss a trick upon his own examinership? <br> | ||
Than the sequestrator’s astrology <br> | {{script|Herculio}}: Hear me, though: this rider taps a deeper art<br> | ||
Should constellations ill | Than the sequestrator’s astrology. <br> | ||
Should constellations, ill aligned, by morbid glint <br> | |||
Whilst | Throw misadventure on a side — call it, “A” <br> | ||
Whilst the converse — that one, “B” — by present value judg’d <br> | |||
portrays a grim portfolio <br> | |||
And | Lest B confront a cleffèd stick: <br> | ||
Pay to close and no more pay, or stay to play, <br> | |||
And in the meantime pay, with vain hope of recompense? <br> | |||
Since to suspend is, ''ipso facto'', to deprive, I shalt not do that | |||
But be unobliged , from the off, | But be unobliged , from the off, |