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Till this present I was a meere Cockney, and well might that name sute with my breeding. I plainely began to perceiue, how Aduersitie makes men vvise: in that very instant, me thought, * I discouered a new light which as in a cleare Glasse, did represent vnto mee things past, things present, and things to come. She is the Miв€Јstresse * to all things, a subtill I nuentresse, by whom your Thrushes, your Pyes, your Iack-dawes, and your Parrats are taught to speake.

I vvish no man that ill lucke, but onely lament mine owne misfortunes. For my part I know not: but if euer thou hast beene in want, or shouldst (which is possible) be put to shift for thy selfe, and be driuen to need and to lacke, thou wouldst then be able to tell mee another tale. Thou wilt not tell me, nor canst thou (I thinke) giue me a reason, what should bee the cause of it. вЂ¦enowed and mothв–Є eaten, keepes as fat and faire, as those that haue daintier feeding.O thou Epicure! O thou ryotous Glutton! thou lauish Prodigall! why dost thou talk thus foolishly, that thou eatest and swalв€Јlowest downe so many thousand Ducats yeerely? Say rather, that thou haft so much Rent comming in and that thou keep'st it in thy hands, but not that thou eat'st it out: and if thou doest eate it out, why doest thou keepe such a complaining? seeing thou art no more man, then my selfe, whom poore Lenв€Јtils, dry Fitches, old Beanes, hard Pease, and Bisket that is How many dishonest actions doth it venв€Јture on? what cruell imaginations doth it represent vnto thee? what infaв€Јmous things doth it sollicite? what disorders doth it driue thee into? and what impossibilities doth it not attempt? I weighed also with my selfe, with how little our mother Nature is contented and hauing giuen much to many, yet none of them rest contented: all cry out, They are poore, publishing their wants to the world. This was the first time, that I look't that Hereticke Neв€Јcessity in the face: I knew him then by his Character, but afterwards I did better consider him by his effects. I knew then, what a a Blanke meant and that he that doth not seeke to gather, doth not make any reckoning of it, nor know the woorth thereof, till he feeles the want of it. Where withall to spend, nor any meanes to defray my necessary expences. I found my selfe then like a leane Dogge, barked at by others grinning with my teeth vpon all those that came round about me turning head against all, but not daring to bite any: my cares conв€Јtinued with me with them, their barking: and hauing hedg'd me in, set all vpon me at once: but that which most troubled mee, was That I had not

FISH IN A TREE IT IS OWE HAFT FULL

The third day was to me, as it were, a day of death: for then I had my full load of miseries. It is good to haue a father, it is good to haue a mother but to haue meat to put in a mans mouth, is betв€Јter then them both.

I had lately money in my purse, and meate to put in my belly: and griefes (as the * Prouerbe is) are the better ouer-past with bread. For my care increased, and it rained downe hard vpon him, who was too wet already one mischiefe ouer-taking anoв€Јther. I suffered inough the first day I set forth the second, more. THOV seest mee here in CaГ§alla, twelue Leagues from Seuill, vpon Munday in the morning, with my purse pennilesse, and my patience remedilesse: and accused (as you haue heard) for a Thiefe, by way as it were of Prophecie, presaging what I should bee hereв€Јafter. How Guzman de Alfarache, going out of CaГ§alla towards Madrid, proues the quality and condition of a miserable man and vpon this occasion, grauely disв€Јcourseth of the effects of Want, of Shame, and of Castles in the ayre: And how he came to serue an Host and of the wicked disposition of such kind of men.

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