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 gold. Aye, but they would be better together, quoth he—if thou wilt come ’prentice to me, I will put the finihing hand to thee; and as thou already undertandet o well the making of pures, I’ll teach thee how to fill them, for I am a money-maker by trade; and as both profeions agree o well, thoe that carry them on hould go hand in hand. Very well, aid I, I accept your offer, provided you have the management of a lawful mint, where money is coined for the ue of a free city or overeign tate; but if you coin on your own bottom, it is neck-breaking work, and commonly ends at the gallows, and o I wah my hands of the concern. Faint heart never won fair lady, returned he—he that its by the meat and never helps himelf, deerves to tarve. What, pr’ythee, is the difference whether thou diet by hunger or of uffocation? Every man mut die at lat.—The difference is, interrupted I, that in the one cae ‘you