@article{559464,
      note = {Text in a pyramid, flanked on either side by verse, the  left beginning "You stare, my friends! and well you may,".},
      author = {Crane, John,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/559464},
      title = {I try, & mean To gain One morefriend, That will spend  His Money free, And deal with me: Fancy form'd the Scheme,  And I chiefly aim At this to make my Verse, Sink deep into  your Purse; If your Guineas Face to Face, Fretting are, for  want of Space, In Pity set the Pris'ners free, And leave a  few of them with me. Yellow-Boys properly suit my wants; If  your's are all white Inhabitants, Half-Crowns or Shillings  - Sixpences will do; Indeed I long to singer one or two. If  your's are but Half-Pence, I. Crane, at the Top, Sits there  - and invites you to come to his Shop-Since the Envy of  Foes, and the Favours of Friends, Are most luckily blended  to answer my Ends. Thank you, my Friends, for the burrying  Times I have seen. And you my Foes too, for all the spare  Minutes between. When Good-Will leads you to my Shop, then  I will use you well, My Goods I wish you all to  Want-Because-I want to sell. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed by Swinney and Hawkins, No. 75. High Street  Birmingham,},
      recid = {559464},
      pages = {1 sheet :},
      address = {[Birmingham] :},
      year = {1800},
}