Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Trade
I hope we shall have no such people as tradesmen shortly; I can’t see any use they are of; if I am chose, I’ll bring in a bill to extirpate all trade out of the nation.
Fielding.—Pasquin, Act II. Scene 1.
Trade, I cashier thee till to-morrow.
Ben Jonson.—The Case is Altered, Act IV. Scene 3.