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21 or artificers, (for those are chiefly concerned this unhappiness) let such.

First, be very diligent and industrious in their respective trades and callings, and not be slothful business.

Secondly, Let him take heed of idleness, and of vain and idle companions, that loiter up, and down, and squander away their time as if it were of no value, though it is the most precious thing in the world, there being nothing in the world is a more certain indication of ruin and destruction, than the wasting and misimproving of time. And yet this is done by those that should take it ill to be charged therewith : as for instance, how many are there that spend a great deal of their time in Coffec-houses and Weekly-bs ! where, tho' but little money is pretended to be spent, yet a great deal of precious time is squandered away and lost ! which many that frequent these places never think of, but measure their expenses only by what goes out of their pockets, not considering what they might have ned in the time by their labour, and what they might have saved by keeping at their shops.

Let us therefore reckon, when a tradesman goes to the Coffee-house or Ale-house to take a ning draught, (let it be of what liquor he s,) while he is spending his twopence,