He could spend shareholders’ capital acquiring massive stretches of land, then only put up his own personal capital to invest in the wells drilled into the best parts of those plays.

It is not Beauty, which its Bluſh doth owe / Unto the Pixe and Pencill.

The gamblers cashed in their remaining chips at the end of the night.

… I took my leave of them, & 'ran like a Lamp-lighter', the rest of the way to the Theatre; and in a most violent perspiration, clambered into the Shilling Gallery, where scarcely I cᵈ gain admission, the rest of the House being extremely crowded, wᶜʰ did not diminish the sudorific state of my person.