News last Thursday that a small amount of unpriceable subprime mortgages was in a BNP Paribas fund in France sent the markets in Europe and the United States sharply lower.
They place affection by times, by pollicy, by appoyntment, if they frowne, who dares call them vnconstant, if bewray secrets, who will tearme them vntrue, if fall to other loues, who trembles not, if he call them vnfaithfull.
The internet used to be the Wild West. But more and more these days it's getting to be a tricky racket.
In ſuch luxurious plentie of all pleaſure, / It ſeem’d a ſecond paradiſe to gheſſe, / So lauiſhly enricht with natures threaſure, / That if the happie ſoules, which doe poſſeſſe / Th’Elyſian fields, and liue in laſting bleſſe, / Should happen this with liuing eye to ſee, / They ſoone would loath their leſſer happineſſe, / And wiſh to life return’d againe to bee, / That in this ioyous place they mote haue ioyance free.