On Chuffe, Banks the Usurer's Kinsman

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On Chuffe, Banks the Usurer's Kinsman by Ben Jonson

XLIV. ? ON CHUFFE, BANKS THE USURER'S KINSMAN.     CHUFFE, lately rich in name, in chattels, goods,     And rich in issue to inherit all,     Ere blacks were bought for his own funeral, Saw all his race approach the blacker floods :     He meant they thither should make swift repair,     When he made him executor, might be heir.

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