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 or continued, being gotten by oppression, deeeitdeceit [sic], usury, and the like, which commonly lasteth not 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 on drink and women; for Bacchus and Venus are inseperable 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