"What's that you say, Mr. Citizen?
Is it old Mr. Debbil we must pay?"
"Don't you know damnation pays everyman's scores? ...We knew we should have the Devil to pay one time or another, and now you see, like honest men, we have pawned our Souls for the whole Reckoning." Thomas Brown, Letters From the Dead to the Living, 1707.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/devil-to-pay.html
QVIDAM IMPERIVM FREQVENS PETEBANT ACQVE VIROS LIBEROS OPPRIMERE CVPIEBANT
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