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1.9 Matthew Beach to Algernon Sparrow |
IX Matthew Beach to Algernon SparrowDEUCE take it, how contrary things are! I am a real Jonah man. It is but starveling comfort to buy all you want for a few pence when you only get a few pence for what you sell. The time is ripe for you, good Mr Sparrow, to join in with us and thereby to get your share of comfort from what the sea produces. I propose that you should recommend me to one or two of your rich friends, Erasicles of Sphettus for example or Philostratus of Cholargus, so that I may supply them with fish straight from the fish basket. In any case, beside the money they pay, your recommendation will ensure us some comforts from them at the Brotherhood Feast and the Festival of Dionysus. Besides it will save us from the harshness of the market superintendents who every day annoy us peaceable folk in order to make profit for themselves. You parasites have great influence with rich young men : that is proved not by words but by deeds.
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