No, let the monarch's bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.


To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.


No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.