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then, with what fish, fowl, or beasts they could 

 kill, by swiftness or strength, by craft or con- 

 trivance, by their hands, or such instruments as 

 wit helped or necessity forced them to invent. 

 When a man had got enough for the day, he 

 laid up the rest for the morrow, and spent one 

 day in labor that he might pass the other at 

 ease ; and lured on by the pleasure of this bait, 

 when he was in vigor and his game fortunate, 

 he would provide for as many days as he could, 

 both for himself and his children, that were too 

 young to seek out for themselves. Then he 

 cast about, how by sowing of grain, and by 

 pasture of the tamer cattle, to provide for the 

 whole year. After this, dividing the lands 

 necessary for these uses, first among children, 

 and then among servants, he reserved to him- 

 self a proportion of their gain, either in the 

 native stock, or something equivalent, which 

 brought in the use of money ; and where this 

 once came in, none was to be satisfied without 

 having enough for himself and his family, and 

 all his and their posterity forever ; so that I 

 know a certain lord who professes to value no 

 lease, though for a hundred or a thousand 

 years, nor any estate nor possession of land, 

 that is not for ever and ever. 



From such small beginnings have grown 

 such vast and extravagant designs of poor 



