Jake's Flea Market

The 16th century elite were starting to run out of cash: So they began to accept offers from the wealthy, and in return bestowed titles and married the daughters of the rich. And so the nobility came to have assets, and the wealthy began to have access to greater opportunities for wealth.

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believe there’ll be a letter
given by a man whose 
wealth wears no tiara 

a middleman who’ll
take it to henry   king of france

an offer to sell a daughter’s dowry
into the palace of a royal prince

and so have his fortune crowned