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 more farms in Ireland then Tenants, and great choice of bargains; men would rather take where they need not fear twice paying of their Rents; and withal, that the people in general in their hearts understanding the justice of my Cause, and the cruelties used towards me, would not by their forwardness to meddle with my Land, give any countenance to my enemies. Moreover, I feared my personal Estate might be seized: But I knew, that unless arbitrary power in my Judges had conspired with the universal apostacy and knavery of all my friends, they could not hinder me of a small Bush to stand under, till the shower was over; especially since I never yet would trouble myself with pompous appearance, nor further delighted in the courses of common voluptuaries, then to understand them: so as paucity of wants would have been unto me as riches, when my abundance had been pared off. Lastly, They might have imprisoned my person; but what had that been to me, who have always imprisoned my self? and what was the life of a Goal worse, then I endured at the Crows-nest? I delight in few things which a