which worldlything:hing to their owners, 73 and ofa matler,a feruant. Neither is this any light fubieeti tubof world- on,or rafieferuitudc,but about all other Ilauerymoll gree- land, to tisen uous and intollerable: for this earthlymammon, and that ridesismoft greedy diuell ofvnfatiableauarice,like crucll tyrants weare grreuoua. and confume the ftrength oftheir deuotedvalláls,with car- king carer,refllelhe feares,and toilefome labors;theymake them to trauell ouer (ea and land,toworke night andday,in the cold ofwinter, and in theheat cffumrner, toexpofe themfelues to innumerable dangers, and to runnewith ex- tremehazardof their hues moli defperate courses, andall to get or increafe their riches.Inall which indeuors,ifthey happen any whit ro faile, and fulláine any bile, notwith- (l.anding all their labour, their cruell mailers fet all thefe bifes on their fcores,making them to pay for all that is roil- carried, with the penanceof bitter feares, and hearty griefe. Andwhereas the hardeft mailers(infer their feruants to re- frcfh themfelues with telling in thenight,that theymaybe more fit for the next daies labour ; thefe much moretrued then they, doe tocontinually haunt themwith cares and feares, that though they goe to bed, they can takeno re(i : for as theWifeman faith, The abundance ofthe richwi/Inot Ecclef.5 rt: fallerhim tofleepe. And as theyhinder themoftheir fleepe, foalfo they skant and miferably pinch both their backes Auarith:dard and bellies,and after their intollerable labours, keepe them demina,non from inioying the fruit oftheir labours, and fuffer them not fa`e fcrufos to cue till they be fatisfied,norto weare fomany clothesas edere:e a_. will keepe them warme. And howtoeuer theyhaueabun- dance in their keeping, yet will they ICt them haue scarce any thing invfe; and polfeffing much, theyhaue nothing in fruition. Wherein they may fitly bee compared to fuch Wards,whohauing a little too greatpolI'effions,die in their ward(hip,and neuer come tothe vfe ofthcir lands:or to the Patriarches lacks, which hauing in them both corne and mony, hadnofurthervfcofeither, but tobee worneoutin keeping them. In which refpcc`t, the miter and flaue of wealth isfaid,nottobench, but,as it were rich, becaufe in his abundance his Idoli and auarice keepe him poore. So theWife man faith;that tbereù tba:makethhimfelfe rich,andPro.'3,7, bath
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