Wish you for favour in courts, temporal or spiritual?
The smiles of kings, the pardon of popes and priests for old crimes, and the indulgence which encourages priest ridden fools to venture on new ones--all these holy incentives to vice may be purchased for gold.

Revenge itself, which the gods are said to reserve to themselves, doubtless because they envy humanity so sweet a morsel--revenge itself is to be bought by it.

But it is also to be won by superior skill, and that is the nobler mode of reaching it.

I will spare, then, my treasure for other uses, and accomplish my revenge gratis; or rather I will add the luxury of augmented wealth to the triumph of requited wrongs." Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands.
"Caitiffs," was the thought of his heart while he did such obeisance--"base, sodden witted mechanics! did you know what this key could disclose, what foul weather from heaven would prevent your unbonneting?
what putrid kennel in your wretched hamlet would be disgusting enough to make you scruple to fall down and worship the owner of such wealth?
But I will make you feel my power, though it suits my honour to hide the source of it.

I will be an incubus to your city, since you have rejected me as a magistrate.