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the confidence to anfwer him, in drinking, 

 or vain talking; or rather that we fliall not 

 ftand mute, being afliamed to confefs how 

 we fpent them ; or that he would be fa- 

 tisfied with fuch an account iliould it be 

 given him ? Let us then be careful fo to 

 husband and manage, fo to expend and im- 

 prove our time, that we may have a good 

 account to make thereof at that day. 



4. Intemperance is a chargeable and ex- 

 penfive Vice, unaccountably wafting the 

 outward Eftate. Trov. z^. zo, zi. Be not 

 among wine bibbers^ among riotow eaters 

 flefli : For the drunkard and the glutton f ball- 

 come to poverty. 'Deerit egentibus ^Es la- 

 quei fret turn : They fliall not have Money 

 enough tc* buy them a Haker. No vice 

 hath confumed fo many Eitates, and reduc- 

 ed fo many of the meaner fort to poverty 

 as this; which being fo, men given to it 

 would do well to confider before-hand, 

 how unfupportable Poverty and Necellity 

 will be to them who have lived plentifully ; 

 efpecially feeing inftead of being pitied and 

 relieved, they are like to be reproach'd and 

 fcorn'd by others. If Toverty makes all men 

 ridiculous^ as the Poet faith, much more 

 then thofe who have brought it upon them- 



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