There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.
1721, John Gay, “A Panegyrical Epiſtle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand per Cent”, in Miſcellanies, volume 3, published 1733, page 239