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 to the third generation, according to the poet,

Others come to want and misery, by spending their fair estates in ways of vicious living, as of drink and women; for Bacchus and Venus are inseparable companions; and he that is familiar with the one, is never a stranger to the other.

Some again live in perpetual want, being naturally wholly given to idleness: these are the drones of a common-wealth, who deserve not to live. "He that laboureth not, should not eat.—Labour night and day, rather than be burthensome," saith the apostle Paul: both country and city swarm with this kind of people; "The diligent hand, saith Solomon, shall make rich: but the sluggard shall have a scarcity of bread."

I remember, when I was in the Low Countries, there were three soldiers, a Dutch-man, a Scot, and an Englishman. who, for their misdemeanors, were condemned to be hanged; yet their lives were begged by three several men one a brick-layer, that he might help him to make bricks, and carry them to the walls; the other was a brewer of Delft, who begged his man to fetch water, and do other work in the brew house: and the third by a gardner, to help him to work in and dress a hop garden. The first two accepted their offers thankfully; but the last, the Englishman, told his Master in plain terms. his friends had never brought him up to gather hops; and therefore desired rather to be hanged.