This placard is said to hang on the wall of a rare bookstore (in both senses of that phrase) in London. I can see why a bookseller would display it, but the advice is more truly directed at the patrons of sex workers, and I think it good:

Giving a Bookseller his Price for his Books has this Advantage; he that will do so, shall have the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that means get many things, which otherwise he never should have seen. So 'tis in giving a Bawd her Price

The quote is attributed to John Selden and appears to have been published in his posthumous and sometimes-questioned Table Talk.

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