Chapter 9

THE _Mortgager_ and _Mortgagee_ differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the _Jester_ and _Jestee_ do, in that of memory. But in this the comparison between them runs, as the scholiasts call it, upon all-four; which, by the bye, is upon one or two legs more than some of the best of _Homer_’s can pretend to;—namely, That the one raises a sum, and the other a laugh at your expence, and thinks no more about it. Interest, however, still runs on in both cases;—the periodical or accidental payment…