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double money] This double money may have a double meaning; one is, that they took their money back which was found in their sacks mouthes, and money for more corne to be bought in Egypt; the other that (besides the restitution money) they tooke the price they formerly paid, and made an augmentation above that they paid before; either because the price of the corne, by the continuance of famine, was increased or the proportion was to be doubled. carry it againe] Restore the money which you brought back unawares, for you cannot have a right both to the money, and the corne. peradventure it was an oversight] The men, that should have received and kept the money, being busily employed with many at once, might bee mistaken, and so might you be some way or other, howsoever misreckoning is no payment, the corne being ours, the money is theirs that sold it, therefore take it with you, and restore it. Jacobs justice in bargaine condemnes the ill dealing of many, who make no conscience upon how cheape termes they get another mans goods; It is naught, it is naught, (saith the buyer) but when he is gone away then he boasteth, Proverbs 20:14. When by dispraysing the ware he hath pulled downe the price, he makes brags of his bargaine, and the seller saith as fast, It is good, it is good; and if he can scrue up the buyer to an unconscionable rate, he is as ready to boast of his gaines; but if either be mistaken to his prejudice, no restoring will be made: and yet the saying is most true, without restitution (either indeed, or in desire) there is no remission.

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