But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, ...

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.