General
Judgments
on
the
Year
1675.
SOme
Men
took
a
great
deal
of
Notice
of
the
Year
1666
,
perhaps
more
than
they
needed
;
and
therefore
we
have
thought
fit
to
take
as
much
Notice
of
the
year
1675.
We
do
find
Mercury
in
a
plaguy
dull
humour
,
looking
like
a
Fellow
without
Monye
:
Many
Astrologers
are
of
opinion
that
he
had
over-wrought
himself
or
overdrank
himself
the
night
before
;
whatever
be
the
Cause
,
it
portends
most
mischeivous
Events
,
especially
the
Breaking
and
Undoing
of
many
sorts
of
People
,
more
especially
among
those
two
Degrees
called
the
Gentry
and
Commonalty
of
the
Nation
.
For
when
men
begin
to
find
themselves
in
debt
,
then
they
Ecclipse
themselves
,
of
which
there
will
be
many
to
be
seen
in
our
Horrizon
,
but
of
that
more
hereafter
.
Never
does
a
man
come
to
have
his
worth
known
till
then
,
for
a
Serjeant
or
a
Bayliff
shall
dig
him
out
of
the
Earth
,
with
as
much
Diligence
as
if
he
were
the
Oar
of
Mexico
;
and
never
ceases
till
he
has
hid
him
again
in
some
obscure
place
or
other
,
never
to
be
found
,
but
,
by
chance
,
like
a
Pot
of
old
Roman
coin
:
But
the
duce
is
in
that
fullen
piece
of
Formality
,
Madam
Astrea
,
who
having
the
scales
of
the
World
in
her
own
hands
,
will
notwithstanding
neither
keep
publick
nor
private
Fortune
equal
;
which
makes
many
a
man
cry
the
Devil
rot
him
,
if
he
ever
he
had
such
cruel
Fortune
in
his
life
,
to
see
Dice
run
against
him
as
if
they
were
in
open
Hostility
with
his
Patrimony
.
And
yet
the
bewitched
Coxcomb
will
never
give
off
till
his
Estate
and
his
Cloak
lies
both
in
the
Lumber
together
;
poor
Squire
in
Cuerpo
,
stript
out
of
his
means
,
as
the
Countrie-man
calls
it
,
as
a
man
would
uncase
a
Rabbet
.
This
scabby
humour
,
like
the
Itch
,
runs
up
and
down
the
City
,
abounding
with
the
Off-spring
of
the
Gentry
,
with
more
furie
then
the
Sicilian
fire
overran
the
Country
about
Messina
;
so
that
in
every
street
there
are
scarce
any
other
Lamentations
to
be
heard
,
but
of
the
ill
Husbandrie
of
the
Masters
,
the
Prodigality
of
Servants
,
till
at
length
they
fall
into
the
Common
shures
of
Povertie
,
Fleet
,
Kings-Bench
,
Counters
or
Ludgate
;
where
they
will
never
leave
their
old
wont
neither
,
but
play
at
One
and
thirtie
for
Farthings
rather
than
stick
out
.
't
was
well
Juno
,
the
Devil
of
a
Goddess
for
Envy
and
Emulation
,
was
made
none
of
the
Planets
,
and
yet
,
by
the
Sequel
of
Influences
,
either
she
,
or
some
other
as
bad
as
her self
,
has
,
a
vengeance
,
great
power
in
the
Skie
;
most
probable
to
be
that
Jezabel
Venus
;
for
women
are
so
outragiously
madd
to
see
one
Neighbour
finer
then
another
,
that
many
men
are
forced
to
pawn
their
Consciences
,
as
well
as
their
Credits
for
one
story
of
Lace
more
upon
their
Wives
Petticoats
:
As
if
women
thought
mens
fancies
did
not
climb
fast
enough
without
such
a
Love-ladder
.
But
how
can
these
Women
think
to
thrive
?
for
no
sooner
are
their
husbands
in
the
Climm
,
but
reflecting
upon
the
cause
of
their
Sorrow
,
they
curse
'um
to
the
pit
of
Hell
,
for
two
causes
;
first
,
because
they
will
never
come
neer
them
,
after
they
have
suckt
their
Counter
tills
as
dry
as
their
Bones
:
secondly
,
when
they
doe
come
,
't
is
always
with
Taunts
in
their
mouths
,
and
so
gay
withall
,
that
they
do
but
the
more
enrage
the
Creditors
that
sees
them
go
so
fine
with
their
money
.
There
is
another
most
malevolent
Aspect
,
very
active
in
the
notching
the
Credit
of
some
that
would
be
thought
Aldermens
fellowes
,
men
that
make
a
great
noise
upon
the
Exchange
:
Which
is
the
reason
that
this
year
many
shall
be
seen
to
fall
from
the
Pinacle
of
their
Countrie-houses
to
a
Lodging
in
the
Rules
at
three
shillings
a
week
:
but
there
is
a
great
difference
between
those
that
are
gathered
to
their
fathers
and
these
dead
men
in
law
,
for
the
one
carries
nothing
along
with
them
,
these
will
let
nothing
that
they
have
got
slip
out
of
their
clutches
;
these
Prison-Pismires
are
such
as
have
laid
aside
all
their
Credit
for
the
Reputation
of
being
diligent
providers
against
the
winter
of
their
misfortune
.
Some
think
the
Conjunction
of
Mars
and
Venus
to
be
a
great
Enemie
to
the
Prosperitie
of
these
men
;
for
that
they
plodding
only
how
to
get
Estates
and
cheat
their
Creditors
,
grow
quite
regardless
of
Love
and
Honour
.
Yet
some
Astrologers
there
are
that
shrewdly
suspect
Cepheus
to
have
a
finger
in
the
Pie
,
because
he
sits
in
such
a
musing
Posture
in
his
groaning
Chair
:
though
some
say
,
Men
are
now
grown
so
knowing
in
practical
Knavery
,
that
they
need
nothing
of
his
celestial
Theory
to
make
them
more
expert
.
Others
believe
that
Fortune
being
a
Whore
her self
could
never
endure
any
that
were
grown
old
and
had
left
the
Trade
.
Others
believe
the
Influence
not
so
fatal
,
while
the
propitious
Conjunction
of
other
men's
Estates
in
their
own
hands
,
in
Mortgage
,
contributes
so
much
to
their
own
Happiness
Yet
shall
their
Creditors
think
the
Stars
too
favourable
,
and
curse
them
as
bitterly
as
ever
Parson
cursed
Meroz
.
What
shall
the
poor
Stares
do
?
the
Creditors
curse
them
for
being
too
kind
,
the
rich
Debtors
curse
them
for
not
being
kind
enough
:
Thus
ye
see
the
Stars
of
Heaven
,
as
well
as
the
Stars
upon
Earth
,
are
subject
to
Scandal
and
hard
Words
,
and
hard
Usage
:
Nay
,
and
if
Mortals
could
but
reach
them
,
you
would
find
their
glittering
Spheres
as
much
battered
as
the
Windows
of
Van
Putten's
House
in
Holland
.
But
what
malitious
Planet
that
is
which
pesecutes
the
Poor
journey-men
Taylors
,
Weavers
,
Coblers
,
Tinkers
,
Butchers
,
and
the
lower
Tribe
of
Masters
,
most
Astrologers
are
at
a
stand
to
discover
;
some
say
,
't
is
Aquarius
,
a
certain
son
of
a
Tankard-bearer
,
translated
into
the
Zodiac
for
giving
meate
,
drink
and
lodging
to
some
poor
Poet
.
If
it
be
he
,
he
is
as
testie
as
Justice
Overdoe
,
and
as
great
a
Pretender
to
Reformation
;
for
much
about
this
time
you
will
find
abundance
of
that
sort
of
Cattel
,
before
mentioned
,
suffer
under
his
Mittimus
,
meerly
for
their
extravagant
Propensity
to
Putt
and
Nine-Pi●s
.
These
men
at
length
become
the
Gibbeonites
of
the
Prison
at
the
devotion
either
of
the
Constables
of
the
Counters
,
or
the
Stewards
of
Ludgate
,
or
else
make
Skewers
in
the
Common
side
of
the
Kings-Bench
,
born
only
to
shew
the
little
d●ff●rence
between
Men
and
Beasts
;
only
,
the
one
can
speak
,
the
other
not
,
unless
there
be
something
more
of
Addition
then
what
Nature
infuses
.
You
may
be
sure
such
sulphurus
Matters
,
as
Debtor
and
Credi●or
,
can
never
meet
but
strange
alterations
of
Air
must
ensue
,
which
is
the
reason
of
those
d●sperate
thunder-claps
to
be
heard
every
day
in
Guild-Hall
.
—
Hang
him
Dog
,
I
lent
him
my
money
out
of
my
Pocket
.
—
Cursed
Curr
,
I
only
was
bound
for
another
,
and
here
the
Son
of
a
Whore
sues
me
to
Execution
.
—
No
,
I
'le
have
no
more
mercy
on
him
then
I
'de
have
on
the
Devil
.
—
Let
him
rot
in
Goal
and
be
poxt
.
—
I
'le
see
him
damn'd
ere
I'●e
pay
him
a
groat
.
—
I
'le
make
him
sh●t
as
small
as
a
Mouse
—
By
this
light
,
I
owe
the
Rogue
not
a
●arthing
.
—
He
's
a
cheating
Dog
,
and
I
'le
prove
it
.
—
Hey
,
Clerk
,
Where
is
my
Execution
?
—
Where
's
my
Judgment
?
Never
such
a
forsworn
wretch
upon
God's
earth
—
Be
sure
to
lay
the
Rogue
fast
—
A
rough
and
stormy
season
truly
;
but
such
is
the
Nature
of
the
Clymate
neither
do
we
see
any
Position
of
the
Starrs
likely
to
remedie
it
.
Should
we
foretell
the
death
of
some
City-Serjeants
and
Guild-hall
Attorneys
,
't
is
a
thing
we
might
do
very
safely
,
and
't
is
very
probable
to
come
to
pass
:
But
what
avails
the
ceasing
of
one
Plague
when
another
follows
in
the
neck
on
't
.
Could
we
Prophesie
that
no
more
of
those
places
should
be
sold
,
we
might
then
foretel
a
great
Reformation
,
and
the
return
of
a
fair
glimpse
of
the
GOLDEN
AGE
.
But
this
other
Prediction
of
ours
shall
most
assuredly
come
to
pass
by
reason
of
the
terrible
influences
of
the
Dog-Star
upon
that
sort
of
Cattel
,
that
these
Fellows
shall
swallow
many
a
fair
piece
of
the
King's
coyn
,
which
they
have
as
little
right
to
as
the
man
in
the
Moon
.
But
what
remedy
?
complain
—
and
they
'l
tell
their
Superiors
as
Gusman
hath
it
in
his
first
Chapter
,
That
they
had
not
their
Offices
for
nothing
,
but
paid
soundly
for
them
,
and
therefore
must
lick
themselves
whole
out
of
other
mens
necessities
.
Prudently
therefore
the
same
Gusman
avers
out
of
Aristotle
,
That
the
greatest
wrong
that
can
be
offered
to
a
Common
wealth
is
the
sale
of
Offices
.
Many
Causes
this
year
shall
be
tried
,
and
the
witnesses
shall
swear
point
blank
to
the
truth
,
but
the
Jury
men
shall
find
quite
Contrary
.
Neither
do
we
find
that
the
Corruption
of
some
Talis
men
will
cease
so
long
as
this
world
endures
.
We
are
afraid
some
Talis
man
or
other
is
crept
into
the
Skie
,
by
the
help
of
some
Astrological
Under-sheriff
or
other
,
to
make
all
this
Mischief
:
Whom
to
suspect
we
cannot
devise
,
unless
it
be
that
sneaking
fellow
call'd
Auriga
or
the
Carter
,
probably
some
Middlesex
Farmer
:
of
which
there
are
some
of
them
,
formerly
well
sed
and
well
drenched
,
that
for
a
Wager
shall
whistle
Law
at
the
Plough
tail
with
ere
a
Northfolk
Dumplin
of
them
all
:
I
have
seen
of
these
Catt●l
appear
among
the
Jurie
men
that
are
truly
returned
,
just
as
in
Job
we
find
the
Devil
appearing
among
the
Angels
before
God
:
and
there
are
those
that
have
them
alwaies
ready
,
according
as
they
shall
be
bespoke
,
as
good
Farriers
have
always
store
of
Horse-shoos
by
them
,
to
fit
all
sizes
of
Hoofes
.
So
that
Plaintiff
or
Defendant
need
not
be
beholding
to
the
Stars
to
know
his
good
fortune
,
if
he
have
well
consulted
these
Soothsayers
.
But
who
the
Devil
dubb'd
these
,
forlorn
dregs
of
Mortality
,
the
clip'd
Knights
of
the
Post
?
Astrologers
are
at
a
Stand
:
some
will
have
Proteus
to
be
their
Father
,
because
of
the
several
Long-lane
shapes
and
dresses
that
they
appear
in
;
for
they
are
sometimes
Divines
,
sometimes
Country
Gentlemen
sometimes
Physicians
,
sometimes
Merchants
,
sometimes
Serving-men
,
as
the
thing
to
be
sworn
to
requires
them
to
be
in
Office
.
Astronomers
will
allow
them
no
room
in
Heaven
,
for
that
Perjury
is
the
only
Crime
that
is
punishable
among
the
Gods
:
Therefore
,
saith
Tostatus
,
they
are
an
Apparent
Argument
for
the
Excellency
of
Man
above
Angells
;
Coruptio
optima
est
pessima
.
Therefore
are
men
so
much
the
more
Excellent
than
Angels
,
by
how
much
they
,
the
mere
corruption
of
Mankind
,
are
worse
then
Devils
.
These
men
,
with
the
Epicureans
,
place
their
chief
Happiness
in
this
World
,
counting
the
meanest
Conveniences
thereof
great
Blessings
;
such
as
Pots
of
Ale
,
and
sixpeny
Cuts
of
Ram-alley
Roast
beef
:
With
the
Sadduces
they
hold
the
Mortality
of
the
Soul
,
otherwise
they
would
never
sell
their
Salvation
so
cheap
;
half
a
crown
a
time
,
come
as
often
as
you
please
.
Yet
are
they
of
great
use
among
a
certain
Generation
of
Vipers
called
annointed
Knaves
.
When
an
annointed
Knave
comes
with
these
finishing
Tools
of
his
to
compleat
a
Tittle
,
there
is
no
resistance
,
the
case
is
made
so
plain
:
then
shall
you
see
without
Fryar
Bakon's
Art
,
the
strange
Motions
of
Terra
firma
out
of
one
Family
into
another
:
Mountains
,
without
the
help
of
Faith
removed
out
of
one
man's
Possession
into
the
Poss●ssion
of
another
.
If
you
aim
at
the
life
of
a
man
,
they
put
down
all
the
time
,
observing
poysons
of
Ethiopia
,
they
'l
doe
your
work
so
gentelely
and
so
legally
,
that
you
get
Repute
by
the
Prosecution
.
They
'l
swear
,
that
such
a
one
lying
asleep
,
they
saw
his
soul
go
out
of
his
mouth
booted
and
spurr'd
,
take
horse
,
ride
to
such
a
place
,
do
such
a
Murther
,
commit
such
a
Felony
,
or
act
such
and
such
Treasons
.
Now
because
(
as
Boccalini
saieth
)
that
it
is
so
hard
a
matter
to
punish
a
false
oath
without
discouraging
a
true
one
;
such
as
rob
upon
the
High-way
,
and
take
but
10
shillings
from
a
man
,
shall
be
hanged
;
and
these
sons
of
Perdition
that
strike
at
the
root
of
Life
,
Estate
and
Fortune
,
shall
only
loose
their
Ears
,
which
they
value
no
more
than
Esop's
Cock
did
Diamonds
:
Pieces
of
flesh
,
which
they
hold
,
made
in
opposition
to
the
great
Maxim
in
Philosophy
,
That
Nature
does
nothing
in
vain
,
as
being
of
no
use
in
the
body
of
Man
.
't
is
good
to
fight
with
Silver
weapons
,
for
then
thou
shalt
overcome
all
things
,
saith
the
Greek
Poet
:
Which
is
the
reason
a
true
Suborner
is
never
without
a
Guard
of
these
Janizaries
at
his
heels
,
especially
in
Term
▪
time
.
These
are
they
that
so
cordially
pimp
for
the
Devil
,
as
if
they
thought
him
to
be
Disposer
of
all
Inheritances
;
as
Lord
of
the
World
.
They
have
made
a
Feoffment
of
their
Souls
with
Livery
and
Seisin
to
Satan
,
only
taking
a
short
Lease
back
again
.
And
therefore
are
resolved
to
make
all
people
they
have
to
deal
withall
turn
Tenants
to
their
Landlord
.
If
a
Councellor
or
Attorney
chance
to
take
their
Fee
,
what
villanies
must
he
not
conceal
?
what
Treacheries
,
what
Forgeries
is
he
not
bound
to
be
privy
to
?
what
defences
must
he
not
make
o●
injustice
and
wrong
?
what
,
the
worst
of
actions
must
he
not
strive
to
palliate
,
daub
over
with
the
fucus
of
forced
Eloquence
,
quite
contrary
to
the
dictates
of
either
Reason
or
Conscience
?
Those
that
have
calculated
their
Nativities
,
banish
them
from
the
Societie
of
men
,
as
the
most
dangerous
and
treacherous
persons
in
the
world
;
and
wonder
,
finding
it
so
much
threatned
by
the
starrs
,
that
no
more
of
them
are
hang'd
;
there
being
no
Crime
in
the
world
that
more
deserves
death
.
About
this
time
many
significations
derive
themselves
from
Mars
,
who
is
Author
Bellorum
.
Now
he
being
in
one
of
his
greatest
Dignities
with
Mercury
,
such
a
Conjunction
portends
many
strifes
and
animosities
among
men
,
for
a
fiery
Planet
in
a
sign
of
the
same
Triplicitie
,
receives
an
addition
of
violence
to
its
own
intemperate
nature
.
This
is
the
reason
of
those
swarms
of
ignorant
Solicitors
,
and
worse
then
ignorant
Attorneys
,
whose
multiplication
would
prove
a
greater
plague
to
this
Nation
then
Vermin
to
the
Egyptians
:
therefore
among
the
well
regulated
Common
wealth
of
the
Lacedemonians
Law
suits
were
not
heard
of
.
And
well
did
Charles
the
9th
of
France
,
who
,
to
prevent
needless
and
numberless
Suites
of
Law
,
ordained
that
whoever
commenced
a
Suit
of
Law
,
should
deposite
such
a
Sum
with
the
Judge
,
to
receive
it
back
,
if
his
cause
were
good
,
or
forfeit
it
,
if
the
same
prov'd
frivolous
.
Not
worse
did
James
of
Arragon
who
banished
Semeng
Rada
a
great
Pettifogger
for
his
being
famons
only
for
quirks
and
wiles
in
Law
:
But
better
did
Galeatius
of
Millain
,
who
hanged
another
for
his
excellent
Art
of
multiplying
suites
.
Surely
such
bands
of
Locusts
,
might
be
better
emploied
then
in
the
Ruin
of
the
Poor
and
Needie
,
whose
Cries
why
they
do
not
call
down
Showers
of
Brimstone
and
Fire
upon
these
impious
Miscreants
,
when
some
Casuists
have
not
been
able
to
answer
,
it
has
made
them
totter
in
their
Divinity
?
But
what
is
the
matter
that
our
Astrologers
keep
Hercules
so
close
mu'd
up
up
in
the
Skie
,
when
we
have
so
much
need
of
him
here
upon
Earth
?
Here
is
one
more
to
make
up
his
Labours
a
Bakens-dozen
,
that
will
more
renown
him
than
all
his
other
twelve
:
Nay
,
let
him
bring
Theseus
too
;
here
's
work
enough
for
them
both
;
for
there
be
a
sort
of
Augean
Stables
about
this
City
,
whose
Keepers
never
cate
Less
then
two
poor
folks
at
a
meal
,
more
cruel
than
Diomed
that
fed
his
horses
with
human
flesh
;
more
inhumane
,
more
merciless
than
the
great
robbers
Sciron
or
Pityolanthes
,
more
terrible
than
the
Lerenean
Monster
,
should
they
be
broyl'd
roasted
,
gridled
,
sing'd
,
baked
ten
thousand
years
in
Purgatory
,
they
would
be
as
sooty
as
when
first
put
in
.
But
Cruelty
seldome
goes
unrewarded
,
and
such
is
the
Happiness
of
these
fellows
,
that
they
seldom
last
above
a
Pope's
Reign
,
being
generally
poysoned
either
with
lim'd
,
sack
or
stumm'd
Claret
,
in
less
then
five
years
.
Saturn's
a
melancholy
sign
,
and
who
can
hinder
him
from
being
as
froppish
and
as
humer
some
as
he
pleases
upon
his
own
day
;
which
is
the
reason
that
there
be
some
Citizens
that
can
as
well
be
hang'd
as
keep
out
of
the
Nine-pin
Houses
in
Moor
Fields
on
a
Saturday
,
to
be
out
of
the
sight
of
those
ghastly
apparitions
that
haunt
their
Ghosts
at
the
heel
of
the
week
.
Poverty
and
Necessity
the
Gods
of
the
Andreans
,
that
could
stop
the
mouth
of
Themistocles
,
cannot
appease
the
wrath
of
a
City
Creditor
;
the
Proverb
reversed
,
Dunn
upon
the
Devil
.
whose
emptie
mony
bagg
,
twisted
about
his
hand
,
is
as
killing
as
a
Gorgon's
head
;
and
therefore
't
is
well
the
poor
man
is
out
of
the
way
he
's
only
practising
the
sports
which
are
to
be
his
only
Recreations
in
a
short
time
:
and
what
a
kindness
it
is
for
a
man
to
be
removed
from
the
cares
and
labours
of
this
world
to
the
sweet
pleasures
of
drinking
and
kettles
?
't
is
well
these
Desperado's
in
Estate
are
not
so
strong
as
Sampson
;
for
they
would
not
then
put
their
Landlords
key
under
the
Door
,
but
take
away
key
house
and
all
.
What
abundance
of
Travellers
should
we
meet
upon
the
road
with
Houses
and
Shops
furnish'd
?
And
what
Landlord
,
seeing
a
man
standing
upon
the
seashore
with
his
house
upon
his
back
,
swearing
he
would
send
it
to
the
bottom
of
the
Ocean
,
but
would
come
to
any
composition
?
Besides
they
were
out
of
the
reach
of
the
Law
,
for
there
is
no
Statute
in
Polton
against
removing
of
houses
,
so
a
man
Carry
them
whole
without
breaking
:
But
the
limits
of
fate
are
certain
;
the
Cobler
cannot
go
beyond
his
Last
,
nor
a
man
beyond
his
strength
;
there
was
but
one
Nisus
,
one
Hercules
,
one
Sampson
,
the
first
two
never
arrested
that
we
read
of
,
and
for
the
latter
how
he
paid
off
his
Creditors
we
very
well
know
.
Therefore
now
a
days
't
is
better
for
debtors
to
fall
to
their
Prayers
,
beseech
,
entreate
,
lie
,
flatter
dissemble
,
swear
,
forswear
,
set
an
Instrument
to
work
with
the
wise
,
such
tricks
as
these
,
Sint
semper
studiis
arma
parata
tuis
.
If
these
will
not
prevail
,
expect
no
other
deliverance
but
as
Daniel
got
out
of
the
Lyons
Den
,
or
Jonas
out
of
the
Whales
belly
.
January's
Observations
.
THE
Weather
is
very
cold
,
and
Charity
far
more
cold
.
The
womens
Benevolence
flows
all
into
the
convention
Channel
.
Their
husbands
bosomes
hard
frozen
like
the
weather
,
not
to
be
thaw'd
by
all
the
steams
of
Plum-broth
and
Plum-Pye
that
make
such
mists
in
their
Kitchins
;
Only
the
Cellar
man
,
in
hope
to
be
pai'd
at
one
time
or
other
,
and
partly
out
of
the
Lecherie
they
have
in
cozening
and
cheating
with
false
measures
and
nasty
Tobacco
,
is
at
length
contented
to
let
his
dear
Euridices
,
his
Beer
and
his
Brandy
take
a
little
air
out
of
his
Infernal
regions
.
But
the
hot
strumpets
leave
such
violent
claps
behind
them
in
the
Pockets
of
the
poor
Prisoners
,
that
no
Aqua
fortis
cats
so
violently
into
a
fob
as
they
do
.
Only
the
Cellar
man
has
one
Recipe
to
stop
the
violence
of
the
Gonorrhea
,
by
crying
in
a
Lion-like
tone
,
I
'le
trust
no
more
.
Yet
men
that
are
pickt
up
in
the
Holydayes
have
not
so
much
reason
to
complain
;
for
though
they
fare
not
so
well
as
they
might
abroad
,
yet
they
are
sure
to
be
kept
from
surfeiting
where
they
are
,
surely
't
is
a
hard
case
that
such
Enormities
are
winkt
at
,
that
where
poor
men
ought
to
have
most
,
best
and
cheapest
,
there
they
have
the
worst
,
least
and
dearest
of
all
things
.
Now
the
reason
is
such
that
all
the
seven
wise
men
of
Grece
could
not
have
given
the
like
;
because
the
Master
Keeper
lets
his
Cellar
at
a
Rack
rent
,
because
he
himself
has
paid
so
dear
for
the
Custody
of
his
Den
:
A
strange
kind
of
Chymistrie
,
however
it
came
to
be
allowed
of
,
that
a
man
should
be
permitted
to
purchase
an
Iron-barr'd
Limbeck
,
to
act
contrary
to
nature
,
while
he
makes
it
his
business
all
his
life
to
extract
something
out
of
nothing
,
and
having
reduced
men
to
nothing
out
of
the
Caput
mortuum
of
their
perisht
Estates
,
to
make
himself
somthing
:
who
could
have
thought
A
Jailor
had
been
such
a
Caldean
Magician
before
?
February's
Observations
.
THis
Month
many
men
shall
be
carried
over
to
the
Kings-Bench
,
with
Habeas
Corpuses
;
a
piece
of
sheeps
skin
,
that
would
make
you
believe
that
beast
to
be
the
most
suttle
and
cruel
in
the
world
:
Truly
't
is
a
beast
of
a
strange
Kidney
after
death
,
and
as
we
are
apt
to
believe
,
the
only
beast
that
cries
quit
for
quo
with
his
Devourer
,
man
:
by
and
by
devouring
him
alive
for
feeding
on
his
dead
carcase
before
:
wicked
Conspiracy
between
the
silliest
of
Creatures
,
the
sheep
and
the
Goose
,
to
be
so
sharp
in
their
revenge
:
which
makes
men
seem
the
greatest
Sots
in
nature
to
be
made
such
Fools
of
,
by
Geese
and
Sheep
.
Thus
are
the
cunning
foxes
carri'd
away
by
the
violence
of
a
Sheep-skin
into
the
Hesperiant
Gardens
of
Southwark
,
where
,
though
there
are
no
Golden
Apple
Trees
growing
,
yet
they
shall
find
many
Lions
waking
for
their
Security
.
Some
say
that
the
Prisoners
themselves
are
changed
into
Golden
Appletrees
,
which
so
long
as
they
bear
fruit
,
the
Lyon
is
as
gentle
as
a
Red
Herring
,
but
if
they
wither
and
grow
dry
,
they
are
presently
cut
down
and
made
fuel
for
the
Common
Goal
.
Nay
your
two
Janizaries
,
your
Brace
of
guardian
angels
will
forsake
you
for
want
of
a
little
Chamber
rent
:
Otherwise
Polyphemus
himself
is
civil
enough
,
and
will
be
content
to
have
his
own
eye
put
out
for
a
while
,
while
Ulysses
escapes
under
the
belly
of
his
Golden
fleece
.
Now
under
what
Planets
the
Tipstaves
and
Waiters
were
born
,
we
cannot
well
conjecture
;
we
believe
Mercury
,
though
not
as
he
was
a
god
,
but
a
Gusman
.
They
are
a
sort
of
Vermin
that
believe
not
only
the
Moon
,
but
all
mankind
to
be
made
of
green
cheese
,
so
like
Rats
and
Mice
do
they
altogether
live
and
feed
upon
it
.
They
are
clearly
of
Horaces
Opinion
,
or
at
least
seem
to
have
been
his
Scholars
in
this
one
particular
,
for
they
measure
the
credit
of
a
man
,
and
repute
of
his
Virtues
,
according
to
the
length
of
his
purse
,
and
depth
of
his
chest
.
This
month
the
wandring
Planets
of
this
Region
have
Liberty
,
by
their
Rules
,
to
bolt
out
of
their
burrows
up
and
down
into
the
City
,
and
laugh
at
their
irreligious
Creditors
.
March's
Observations
.
BUt
now
't
is
Vacation
,
Every
man
to
his
Cage
,
No
budging
without
the
Territories
of
S.
George
.
Room
enough
a-conscience
for
the
holy
Exercises
there
performed
,
Diceing
,
drabbing
,
drinking
.
Venus
is
very
Powerful
here
,
but
Bacchus
much
more
,
being
indeed
the
very
Baal
Peor
of
this
place
.
As
for
the
stars
of
the
first
Magnitude
,
you
shall
find
them
at
the
Leg
or
the
Golden
Lyon
;
but
all
must
not
be
such
,
for
then
what
would
the
lesser
orbs
of
Alehouses
do
for
the
Comfort
of
their
enclining
Influences
.
But
,
quoth
the
Creditors
,
What
tydings
does
your
heavenly
Post
bring
yee
concerning
the
payment
of
our
Debts
?
not
a
tittle
by
Jove
.
No
my
dear
friends
,
this
is
the
Land
of
Oblivion
.
Not
a
quartern
of
Brandy
but
is
an
Antidote
against
Sorrow
,
not
a
pipe
of
Wine
,
or
a
barrel
of
Beer
,
but
was
perfect
Letye
.
In
a
short
while
they
forget
you
,
in
a
long
time
you
forget
them
.
Alas
,
should
all
men
pay
their
debts
,
Some
would
have
nothing
left
,
and
others
would
have
all
;
there
would
be
no
flux
and
reflux
of
Fortune
,
should
the
Tide
run
all
one
way
,
no
loss
aswel
as
again
,
and
cheating
would
have
too
great
an
incoragement
should
it
alwaies
prosper
.
Prove
that
ever
,
in
any
age
of
the
world
,
all
men
paid
their
Debts
,
and
we
will
entreat
the
starrs
to
let
ye
have
it
so
again
.
But
do
you
think
to
alter
the
course
of
Nature
for
your
humours
?
Having
received
this
sad
news
from
the
heavenly
Intelligencer
,
the
Poor
Creditors
are
as
various
in
their
Humour
as
the
weather
.
The
Mercer
shakes
his
head
and
cries
,
I
'le
spend
five
hundred
pounds
before
I
'le
be
thus
trapann'd
.
The
Milliner
cries
—
Hang
't
give
us
t'other
Cup
of
Sack
't
is
well
't
is
no
worse
—
by
my
soul
the
Gentleman
seemed
to
me
to
be
such
an
honest
man
,
that
I
would
have
trusted
him
with
all
the
goods
in
my
Shop
.
The
Poor
Taylor
holding
his
hands
under
his
Arm
Pitts
,
well
quoth
he
,
I
know
as
cunning
a
fellow
as
any
is
in
England
,
and
if
there
be
ever
a
trick
i'
the
Law
,
Begarr
,
I
'le
make
him
smoke
for
't
.
Ad's
foot
he
ows
me
beside
for
above
a
twelve
months
Lodging
.
—
But
a
Pox
a
my
Wife
she
is
so
willing
to
entertain
handsom
Gentlemen
.
April's
Observations
.
THE
Semstress
melts
into
tears
like
the
Month
,
and
cries
,
He
might
have
bin
more
kind
to
her
,
she
was
sure
she
was
none
of
his
back
friend
—
't
was
a
most
ungentleman
like
part
to
undo
a
poor
woman
in
both
senses
.
But
let
them
all
say
or
doe
what
they
will
,
Prisons
are
like
the
Well
in
Derbyshire
,
that
turns
the
tenderer
substance
of
Iron
into
Stone
,
so
when
a
man
is
once
put
in
prison
,
his
heart
becomes
Petrify'd
to
that
excess
,
so
that
neither
the
soft
words
of
a
flattering
Creditor
,
nor
the
most
sharp
and
piercing
execrations
of
a
passionate
one
,
can
make
the
least
impression
therein
.
Now
Astrologers
,
unless
they
can
have
the
Goodluck
to
lie
with
their
Mistresses
,
being
generally
very
poor
,
and
great
Borrowers
,
make
a
Dispute
,
whether
a
man
ought
to
be
compell'd
against
his
will
to
pay
his
Debts
or
no
?
Saturn
a
Sage
Planet
and
a
great
Law-giver
among
the
Latins
,
was
positively
in
the
negative
:
for
,
saith
he
,
If
according
to
the
Maxime
of
the
Law
,
no
injury
can
be
done
to
him
that
is
willing
;
then
it
follows
,
that
all
Injurie
must
be
done
to
him
that
is
unwilling
:
now
what
greater
Injury
can
be
done
to
a
man
,
than
to
compel
him
to
pay
Money
against
his
will
,
whether
he
has
it
or
no
?
Again
,
no
man
was
ever
compell'd
to
lend
mony
;
what
reason
then
why
a
man
should
be
compell'd
to
repay
it
?
Otherwise
lending
of
Mony
seems
a
kind
of
invention
of
man
to
trapan
his
fellow
creature
,
to
lend
him
money
that
he
may
afterwards
make
him
his
miserable
slave
and
vassal
and
triumph
over
his
Calamity
.
Then
up
stept
Jupiter
,
and
said
,
There
was
no
reason
,
that
that
man
who
imprison'd
the
body
of
his
Creditor
should
be
paid
one
farthing
of
his
Debt
,
though
it
were
to
the
ruin
of
the
Creditor's
wife
and
family
.
For
,
quoth
he
,
There
can
be
no
greater
Mischief
done
to
a
man
than
to
captivate
his
body
,
and
deprive
him
of
his
divine
priviledge
of
Freedom
;
he
then
that
intends
the
ruin
of
another
,
ought
to
have
the
same
ruin
intended
,
to
himself
:
and
he
is
wise
that
expends
in
Charity
at
home
what'ere
he
has
,
rather
than
relieve
his
perishing
Adversary
.
May's
Observations
.
THey
that
deny
Prisons
to
be
Baudy-Houses
are
as
much
mistaken
as
'
ere
they
were
in
their
lives
,
and
may
as
well
deny
the
Seven
Planets
;
or
,
that
Venus
was
translated
to
the
Sky
for
being
a
Nunn
and
not
a
Whore
:
Surely
the
greatest
Commendation
to
a
Prison
,
is
,
that
it
renders
Matrimony
most
savoury
,
where
the
pleasures
thereof
are
most
stoln
:
but
it
most
extreamly
commends
their
Charity
one
among
another
,
for
lending
their
chambers
to
their
fellow
Prisoners
.
For
which
some
alledge
the
lawfulness
of
Matrimony
;
others
,
that
are
for
the
more
noble
way
of
Pimping
defend
themselves
by
the
example
of
Heliogabolus
who
was
wont
to
lend
his
Baths
and
Wenches
to
his
friends
and
acquaintance
when
ever
they
desired
it
.
And
to
tell
you
the
truth
you
will
find
so
little
of
Mortification
among
them
,
that
they
are
generally
of
Solon
and
Aristotles
opinions
,
that
Whores
are
not
onely
useful
but
necessary
in
a
well
instituted
Common-wealth
,
such
as
generally
all
Prisons
are
,
especially
Ludgate
,
and
the
Fleet
.
Corporeal
Recreations
,
they
crie
,
Mitigate
corporeal
punishments
.
Neither
was
it
ever
recorded
among
them
,
that
any
one
that
was
ever
put
in
ever
pray'd
himself
out
.
And
some
have
observed
that
on
Black-Fryers
side
,
where
you
may
hear
them
as
duly
at
Sternhold
and
Hopkins
as
at
their
morning
draughts
,
and
when
their
devotion
is
loudest
yet
that
here
their
boxes
are
always
emptiest
.
June's
Observations
.
COmets
and
Ecclipses
are
generally
the
forerunners
of
strange
Alterations
in
the
sublunary
world
.
But
they
were
never
yet
so
luckie
as
to
foretel
humanity
in
an
under
keeper
;
Not
all
the
Influences
of
Sun
or
Moon
,
constellations
or
single
starrs
could
ever
alter
their
unalterable
dispositions
.
Men
before
,
but
coming
to
that
office
,
metamorphosed
on
a
suddain
into
Tigers
,
Wolves
and
Canibals
.
They
may
strut
in
fine
clothes
,
fat
with
feasting
on
the
forbidden
fruits
of
extortion
and
selling
unlawful
libertie
at
such
unlawful
rates
,
that
Nero
could
do
no
more
when
he
gave
more
then
Parthia
was
worth
to
the
Parthian
King
to
teach
him
the
Art
of
Necromancie
,
though
what
will
a
Prisoner
not
do
,
that
has
it
?
what
will
he
not
expend
,
to
conjure
down
,
and
appease
the
evil
Demon
that
so
torments
and
haunts
him
worse
then
the
Ghost
of
Agrippina
?
Yet
if
any
of
them
would
be
so
kind
as
to
melt
into
Mercy
and
Honestie
we
would
certainly
have
a
Cabal
of
Astrologers
to
place
him
in
the
Sky
.
What
a
miraculous
thing
would
it
be
to
see
a
Christian
Officer
shining
in
the
room
of
a
heathenish
constellation
?
The
Jaylor
in
the
Acts
fall
down
at
the
feet
of
his
two
Prisoners
,
when
he
saw
such
a
terrible
Habeas
Corpus
come
from
heav'n
toremove
them
.
But
it
is
to
be
feared
;
had
those
Prisners
bin
here
now
,
the
Earth
might
have
shook
as
well
as
the
Prison
,
'
ere
it
could
have
shaken
the
heart
of
an
English
Petty
Tyrant
,
that
since
the
cannot
alter
them
one
way
,
they
are
resolved
they
shall
be
as
unalterable
another
way
;
for
by
the
unanimous
consent
of
the
whole
host
of
Heaven
,
never
any
one
of
them
,
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
ever
did
or
shall
die
worth
a
groat
.
July's
Observations
.
't
is
fair
weather
and
therefore
get
ye
gon
to
the
Fleet
,
and
there
behold
the
noble
Art
of
Chese-bowling
;
Angels
,
Boardend
and
Game
:
—
Two
pieces
o'
the
Game
;
a
piece
the
End
,
—
Five
to
one
o'
the
Cast
,
—
A
pleasing
Noise
for
Creditors
to
hear
!
But
who
can
help
it
—
for
these
are
your
Trustee-men
that
have
laid
up
their
Estates
in
Lavender
,
and
must
have
their
Recreation
,
not
to
be
confin'd
to
humours
,
though
humours
confin'd
them
.
And
thus
you
see
,
if
men
can
keep
their
Estates
what
your
Capias
,
and
your
Latitats
signifie
.
If
you
have
a
mind
to
walk
into
their
Chambers
you
shall
there
find
them
as
merry
as
Lords
;
some
at
dice
,
some
at
cards
,
some
drinking
,
some
roaring
:
and
,
you
must
know
that
if
the
Clerk
be
one
that
knows
how
to
spread
his
bread
and
butter
with
his
thumbs
,
't
is
not
all
your
Art
can
keep
'um
within
the
walls
of
the
Bowling-Alley
,
or
gate
either
.
But
have
a
Care
of
out-running
the
Constable
.
For
when
all
's
gon
there
's
no
more
to
be
had
:
They
'l
sooner
trust
their
Souls
with
the
Devil
,
than
a
Prisoner
with
six-pence
.
If
after
you
have
spent
all
you
can
live
upon
mouldy
Proverbs
of
good
Husbandry
,
old
Sentences
of
Repentance
,
or
enumerating
your
kindnesses
in
Prosperity
to
the
Letter
men
,
you
may
.
And
therefore
endeavour
to
be
one
of
Solomon's
Sons
,
and
keep
Company
with
none
of
them
.
Have
a
care
of
lying
too
much
out
of
doors
upon
Security
,
for
't
is
but
a
scurvy
thing
to
be
visited
in
kindness
twice
or
thrice
a
Month
by
Clericus
in
libro
,
and
his
two
Gog-Magogs
,
with
rugged
cudgels
and
grimm
faces
,
when
the
end
is
only
to
milk
and
spunge
.
Otherwise
you
may
blame
the
stars
when
your
own
folly
becoms
your
ruin
:
For
if
Prisons
must
be
,
and
men
must
be
arrested
,
it
is
the
greatest
Argument
in
the
world
,
for
men
to
play
the
knave
,
and
when
they
find
themselves
to
begin
to
sink
,
to
keep
something
for
Self-preservation
.
Extremities
will
happen
to
all
sorts
of
men
,
as
well
good
as
bad
,
and
therefore
they
determine
best
,
that
best
determine
for
their
own
safety
.
August's
Observations
.
HE
that
thinks
that
Larks
will
fly
roasted
into
his
Mouth
this
Month
,
will
be
deceived
,
and
therefore
let
every
man
look
about
him
diligently
to
his
Business
,
and
keep
out
of
Prison
while
he
is
out
.
't
is
Harvest
time
,
and
therefore
be
sure
to
reap
the
Benefit
of
good
Advice
out
of
other
mens
harms
.
If
a
man
has
a
Creditor
that
is
overcholerick
,
let
him
not
be
too
hasty
,
for
't
is
time
and
straw
that
mellow
Medlars
.
Some
are
of
Opinion
that
there
is
neither
Love
nor
Hunger
in
Prisons
,
because
the
Stone
walls
are
so
seldom
broken
,
but
there
's
another
reason
that
secures
them
,
for
both
Lover
and
Hungry
person
are
so
continually
tired
with
breaking
of
their
Oaths
,
their
Faith
,
their
Vows
,
Promises
and
Words
,
that
they
have
neither
time
nor
strength
left
to
perform
any
other
exploit
.
He
that
in
an
Hundred
pounds
worth
of
Law
,
finds
a
half
peny
weight
of
Love
shall
be
a
very
happy
man
.
But
he
that
finds
a
true
friend
in
his
Adversity
shall
be
far
happier
:
when
thy
Adversary
makes
use
of
a
Lawyer
,
do
you
make
use
of
a
Lawyer
and
a
half
.
He
that
has
brought
his
Noble
to
Nine-pence
,
let
him
never
spare
at
the
bottom
,
and
when
he
has
quite
thwittend
his
Milpost
to
a
pudding
prick
,
let
him
in
the
Full
of
the
Moon
go
and
hang
himself
;
least
Poverty
and
cold
Weather
take
him
napping
together
.
He
that
has
bit
upon
the
Bridle
,
let
him
strive
to
make
silver
with
his
Teeth
,
and
endeavour
to
recover
himself
by
faring
hard
.
September's
Observations
.
THis
Month
the
gods
being
met
in
Council
,
where
there
is
also
present
,
the
great
Judge
Rhadamanthus
,
Advocate
general
Minos
,
and
Eacus
one
of
Jove's
learned
Council
.
Themis
makes
her
Complaint
that
finding
such
a
Reformation
in
our
Architecture
,
she
would
fain
have
return'd
to
the
Earth
again
,
but
that
she
was
so
disturb'd
with
the
Weekly
Clamours
in
the
Common-Hall
,
that
she
was
forced
to
retire
:
Rhadamanthus
urged
,
That
though
some
Cities
might
have
freedom
to
have
the
Law
among
themselves
,
yet
that
the
Algazils
and
Paltrie
Lictors
had
no
permission
to
buy
and
sell
the
Law
as
they
pleas'd
,
to
make
Combinations
among
themselves
against
their
Clients
;
to
let
go
Judgments
by
Default
,
to
take
Exorbitant
Fees
,
with
an
hundred
more
of
the
same
Nature
.
Eacus
urged
that
Courts
fill'd
with
the
loud
Eccho's
of
brangling
and
litigious
Boyes
and
imperious
Catch-poles
,
had
too
irreverent
a
Resemblance
of
a
Court
of
Py-Pouder
:
Mines
urg'd
that
there
was
an
Office
to
which
the
Character
of
Noctes
atque
dies
belonged
:
the
Sinks
and
Common
Sewers
into
which
all
the
Malice
Envy
,
Rancour
and
Hatred
of
inveterate
People
spend
it self
.
Where
the
Tenter-hooks
of
Oppression
alwayes
are
in
such
publick
View
,
that
Man
,
Woman
,
or
Maid
can
hardly
pass
by
Woodstreet
or
the
Poultry
,
without
being
catchthold
of
.
Where
men
sit
at
receit
of
Injury
,
and
mourn
at
the
Tranquility
and
Peace
of
Neighbours
.
October's
Observations
.
THis
Mouth
Themis
appears
again
before
the
gods
,
for
Astrologers
say
,
There
are
Terms
in
Heaven
,
as
well
as
upon
Earth
:
Rhadamanth
urged
that
men
did
ill
to
undertake
the
Defences
of
trivial
and
immodest
Causes
:
that
it
was
their
Duty
to
tell
their
Clients
the
truth
of
their
Causes
,
and
to
dehort
them
from
Contention
,
rather
than
to
encourage
and
exasperate
people
already
by
the
Ears
.
That
it
was
unusual
to
see
Hominem
solenni
legis
linteo
velamine
decoratum
crouching
to
Inferiours
:
That
it
was
not
seemly
to
see
Gentlemen
hawking
after
the
trivial
defences
of
Baudery
or
infamous
Scolding
;
looking
about
as
greedily
after
their
Prey
,
as
the
Turks
,
on
set
days
,
gape
for
Mahomet
.
Pluto
,
alwayes
feed
in
bad
Causes
,
urg'd
that
they
had
paid
large
Sums
for
their
places
.
But
old
Saturn
casting
a
Sardonic
smile
upon
him
,
call'd
Pluto
,
Poltron
and
Bocca
di
Porco
;
for
,
said
he
,
There
is
nothing
arm's
a
Purchaser
more
with
defence
of
unjust
Dealings
,
than
money
given
for
an
Employment
,
which
makes
Petty
Courts
,
where
Law
is
made
to
be
like
the
Bush
,
to
which
while
Sheep
repair
for
shelter
,
they
are
sure
to
loose
a
Fleece
.
Then
Minos
urged
his
Complaint
,
you
may
guess
against
whom
,
The
very
sweepings
of
the
Nation
,
who
after
three
or
four
times
Breaking
,
thrust
themselves
into
Varlet's
Offices
,
to
torment
others
,
as
they
had
been
tormented
before
.
But
would
men
from
daily
Experience
discover
what
Tricks
they
play
,
what
Leiger-de-main
they
use
,
what
juggling
there
is
among
them
;
it
were
an
easie
thing
,
by
the
Assistance
of
the
Stars
,
to
tell
their
Fortunes
,
and
prognosticate
their
Removal
from
all
the
publick
places
of
the
City
,
where
their
Attendance
might
be
rationally
dispenced
with
.
November's
Observations
.
THere
shall
be
great
Bickering
in
the
Country
about
Under-sheriffs
places
,
and
there
's
Fifty
pounds
odds
,
according
to
the
Humour
of
Venus
;
and
then
it
goes
hard
with
the
Country
Prisoners
:
for
is
it
not
Reason
the
poor
Country-slaves
should
pay
,
when
their
Keepers
petition
for
Relief
?
But
they
that
buy
dear
must
sell
dear
:
and
therefore
't
is
a
strange
thing
,
how
blind
some
people
will
be
,
for
though
they
have
a
Writ
in
their
Pockets
,
and
the
person
walks
just
under
their
Noses
,
yet
they
cannot
see
him
for
their
lives
:
which
proceeds
from
a
wonderful
Conjunction
of
Sol
and
Luna
in
Palm
of
the
Right
hand
.
The
Station
of
Saturn
in
Sagittary
foretells
the
Failing
of
many
Country
Farmers
:
and
their
Credit
is
no
sooner
fly-blown
,
but
the
Magot-Bayliffs
,
are
at
their
Tailes
immediately
.
Now
the
poor
Country
People
knowing
no
difference
between
Fiery
Trigons
,
and
Fieri
fae●as
,
Ca
.
Sa
.
and
Ca
.
Dra
.
Excom
.
Cap.
and
Mar.
in
Sag
.
Take
all
to
be
Conjurers
or
Astrologers
;
especially
when
they
finde
them
so
truly
Calculating
the
Fatal
Destiny
▪
of
their
Estates
;
But
which
are
best
Conjurers
or
Returna
Breviums
they
cannot
say
,
But
the
Stars
are
just
,
for
the
Year's
no
sooner
out
,
but
they
meet
either
with
the
Pipe
Office
,
or
Hell
:
where
the
first
Punishment
is
to
lie
ten
thousand
years
in
the
Sweat
of
their
own
Bayliff's
toes
.
December's
Observations
.
SOme
Charity
is
intended
this
Month
by
well
disposed
Persons
for
the
Relief
of
poor
Pris'ners
in
several
Places
:
and
some
few
of
the
Richer
sort
shall
send
Baskets
of
scraps
to
the
poor
people
:
the
refuse
of
their
publick
Tables
pretending
it
to
be
Charity
.
But
Theseus
and
Piritheus
denies
it
so
to
be
:
swearing
by
Pluto
and
Cerberus
,
that
it
is
a
Frantick
Relick
of
the
Number
666.
to
call
it
either
Benevolence
or
Charity
,
for
they
say
,
That
it
can
be
no
Charity
to
send
the
Orts
and
scambled
Mammocks
of
a
superfluous
Table
,
that
they
knew
not
what
in
the
world
to
do
with
else
,
especially
when
there
is
never
a
Bone
that
has
not
been
supervised
and
diligently
corrected
and
amended
above
three
or
four
times
by
the
most
elaborate
Stomacks
of
the
place
.
To
tell
ye
the
Truth
on
't
,
what
strange
Constellations
did
rule
the
Charity-basket
in
74.
we
are
not
well
able
to
say
:
however
't
was
worth
the
seeing
to
take
an
Observation
from
thence
,
of
the
Dimensions
of
some
mens
Benevolence
.
Certain
it
was
,
that
year
was
very
severe
,
which
caused
many
poor
men
to
blaspheme
one
of
the
most
noble
Virtues
.
Charity
ought
to
flow
franck
and
free
from
the
Kitchins
of
Publick
Magistrates
;
their
Scraps
and
Mammocks
is
no
more
than
what
the
poor
senseless
Animal
expects
for
his
Service
,
and
claims
as
his
due
.
He
that
will
be
Charitable
must
Give
,
Give
his
own
,
and
that
which
is
wholesome
and
convenient
:
So
that
,
he
that
only
sends
from
his
superfluous
Banquets
the
Orts
and
Fragments
of
other
mens
Contributions
,
may
have
the
Honour
to
give
Admittance
to
the
Poors
Basket
,
but
never
get
the
true
Character
of
a
Charitable
person
:
for
she
is
a
most
chast
Vertue
,
and
not
to
be
adulterated
by
fictitious
Imitations
and
Ostentations
of
Realities
.
But
what
need
so
much
Charity
;
when
all
the
Prisons
have
their
Foot-Posts
running
from
place
to
place
with
Boxes
and
Petitions
for
the
sake
of
Jesus
Christ
and
the
Good
Time
:
But
truly
there
are
so
many
Heresies
and
Sects
that
care
neither
for
Christ
,
nor
his
Good
time
neither
,
that
the
Trade
of
Begging
for
Christ's
sake
is
hardly
worth
following
now
a
dayes
;
and
all
Helps
are
little
enough
,
especially
,
when
ye
consider
,
That
't
is
not
a
small
thing
that
must
maintain
a
proud
Master
and
his
Wife
to
boot
.