14 The Chase 



Activity to the Limbs, and such a Ph'ancy to every 

 Part as necessarily produce those Compressions, 

 Extensions, Contortions, Dilatations, and all other 

 kinds of Motions that are necessary for the Preserva- 

 tion of such a System of Tubes and Glands as has 

 been before mentioned. And that we might not 

 want Inducements to engage us in such an Exercise 

 of the Body as is proper for its Welfare, it is so 

 ordered that nothing valuable can be procured 

 without it. Not to mention Riches and Honour, 

 even Food and Raiment are not to be come at with- 

 out the Toil of the Hands and Sweat of the Brows. 

 Providence furnishes Materials, but expects that we 

 should work them up our selves. The Earth 

 must be laboured before it gives its Encrease, and 

 when it is forced into its several Products, how 

 many Hands must they pass through before they are 

 fit for Use ? Manufactures, Trade, and Agriculture, 

 naturally employ more than nineteen Parts of the 

 Species in twenty ; and as for those who are not 

 obliged to labour, by the Condition in which they 

 are born, they are more miserable than the rest of 

 Mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that 

 voluntary Labour which goes by the Name of 

 Exercise. 



My Friend Sir Roger has been an indefatigable 

 Man in Business of this kind, and has hung several 

 Parts of his House with the Trophies of his former 

 Labours. The Walls of his great Hall are covered 

 with the Horns of several kinds of Deer that he 

 has killed in the Chace, which he thinks the most 

 valuable Furniture of his House, as they afford him 

 frequent Topicks of Discourse, and shew that he 

 has not been Idle. At the lower end of the Hall, 

 is a large Otter's Skin stuffed with Hay, which his 

 Mother ordered to be hung up in that manner, and 



