So then, if you ask for money, I am poor, but if you ask for friendship and good character, I am rich. It is not so calamitous to me that O possess no money as it is shameful to you that you charge money for your love; ma courtesan's business, of course, is to admit men who carry pikes and swords, since such spend money readily, but a free woman will bear in mind the claim of the ideal and reward the good man with her favour. Command me as you please, and I obey; order me to go to seas, and I embark; order me to suffer stripes, I endure; to cast away my life, I do not hesitate; to run through fire, O do not refuse' What rich man does as much?
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