Rascal Counters

Pitiful or paltry £ s. d. Brutus calls money paltry compared with friendship, etc.

“When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,

To lock such rascal counters from his friend,

Dash him to pieces.”

Shakespeare. Julius Cœsar, iv. 5.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.