English Merchant Law

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    “The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
    —Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)

    “Bid her paint till day of doom,
    To this favour she must come.
    Bid the merchant gather wealth,
    The usurer exact by stealth,
    The proud man beat it from his thought,
    Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    “I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
    My word was law from Ith to Emain,
    And shook at Invar Amargin
    The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
    And drove tumult and war away....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)