Figulus reached a hand into his sidebag and quickly produced the waxed tablet containing the authorisation one of the legate's clerks had drawn up the previous evening at the marching camp on Vectis.

We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

if you give any credit to this jugling rascal, you are worse than simple widgins, and will be drawn into the net by this decoy-duck, this tame cheater.

bond + -age → bondage