An _Image_ Expos’d to Sale.
A Certain Carver, that had a _Mercury_ lay a great while upon his Hands,
bethought himself at last of Billing it about in _Coffee-Houses_, that
at such a place there was a God to be Sold, a Merry Penn’worth, and such
a Deity as would make any Man Rich that Bought him. Well (says One)
And why d’ye Sell him then? For he will make you Rich, if you Keep him,
as well as he will make me Rich if I Buy him. You say very Right says
t’other; but ’tis Ready Mony that I want, and the Purchaser will have
only an Estate in Reversion.
The MORAL.
_Ready Mony goes as far in Religion as in Trade: People are willing to
Keep what they Have, and to get what they Can, without Launching out into
Lives, and Uncertainties. They are well enough Content to deal in the
Sale of Reversions, but they do not much care for Buying them._