Careful Words

supply (n.)

supply (v.)

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!

That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 39.

Who lined himself with hope,

Eating the air on promise of supply.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.