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 ■ T R E A irX-N 0- 
 
 I. Of the OrigindattdlnvenliQn of 
 
 MONEY' ‘ _ 
 
 II. Of the Mifery of ose, 
 
 III. How Perfons in Strait's for^.oney may | 
 
 . fupply them'elves with k. i 
 
 IV. \ new. Method for ordering of Exp 6ttCB5, 
 
 V. How to fave Money in Diet, App.arel 
 and Recreation's. / -y 
 
 VI. Hotsi a Man may always keep Money 
 
 in his Pocket. I i 
 
 VII. How a Man may pay Debts without 
 
 Money, y 
 
 VIII, How to Travel without Money. , 
 
 To which is added, ■ ^ 
 
 The Way how to turn a Penijy ; i 
 
 OR,* 
 
 :?lrt of ngt; ' 
 
 With fevvralofherThings' i ^ 
 
 and "Pro itfMth. 1 
 
 VON 
 
 Pt-tnieH -xM I he year i>jq^ 
 
THE 
 
 PREFAGE. 
 
 H Ow! The Pleafant ^rt of Mo- 
 neY’Gatching^ ■ fiy yw, f Tes^ 
 indeed ^ the very fame^ Pll afun: 
 ye: And if any judgment can he 
 ^made from the common Difcourfe^ there r\\ts ne^ 
 
 , ver more need orit than now: And therefore 
 
 I I think 1 have nicked the Humour of the • 
 by adapting this Treatife to every Man’sVJe:' 
 For who would not willingly part with a Shithng 
 no gain a Pound •, nay^ as it may fall out^ a 
 iThoufand Pounds f And if fo^ What can more. 
 
 I commend it felf than the pleafant Art of M o- 
 ney-Catchingj’ For who is there that 
 {wou^dn^t he willing to learn it? Efpecially at a 
 time when it is fo hard to get it ; and in which 
 the Generality of' Men knob the Worth of it 
 ‘mofily by the Want of it • a?td are even ready to 
 fend out an Hue and Cry after it, — There’s 
 no Money to be had, cries one: I never 
 knew Trading fo dead, cries another: I 
 .4.3 . hardly 
 
 I 
 
jiardly take what keeps my Houfe, cries 
 third. Thm all comf lain for want of Money: 
 And what can be a greater Argument of its 
 IVorfii) than when every one courts it.^ and lan- 
 gaijhes hecaufe of its Ahfence : And ferns 
 so fay ^ 
 
 Return,return,t:hou charming Nymph,again : 
 
 For of thy Abfence all Men do complain, v ^ 
 From Quality, down to the humble Swain; J j 
 For unto thee they all do Homage pay ; 'l i 
 Forthee they ftrive, for thee they pray; ^ 
 
 And grow impatient of thy longer Stay. ; 
 
 I 
 
 For thee the Ladies of Delight, ! 
 
 . Do amble round the Streets by Night j | 
 
 And, unalhamed, often do 1 
 
 In, Bridexvel fulFer for it too: ! 
 
 Even from the Plain, Stuff'gown, | 
 
 ToWhores of Qtulity, and high Renown! 1 
 They are thy humbly Slaves: | 
 
 Ner can the dreadful Fire, | 
 
 By which they oftentimes expire, 
 'fumbling half rotten to their Graves j 
 t: Nor yet the Surgeon’s Powdering,Tub, 
 
 ' Where their old Sores they ferub, 
 
 Fright them from their Allegiance j till they be 
 Devoted Slaves and Subjeds unto thee. 
 
 For thee, the Soldiers, with Heroick Grace, 
 j )o Death in all its horrid Forms out-face : 
 
 It is for thee they valiantly do fight-.; 
 
 March all the Day .and lie i’th’ Fields all Night 
 
The’ P r TIfT'^e.' 
 
 For thee the Lawyer too his Lungs does fpend, 
 
 For wbilft thou ftay’ft,the Caufe will never end. 
 
 Vintners for thee (fo Cuftom dacs enjoyn) 
 
 'lo pleafe their Guefts,drink their own poifon’d 
 [Wine’: 
 
 Thou mak’ft Phyficians to their Patients go ; 
 
 Who but for thee, wou’d no Compaffion Ihow. 
 
 Nay, the Divine, whofe Duty ’tis to Teach, 
 
 Wer’t not for thee, would hardly ever Preach, 
 
 Thus Perfons of all Qualities and all Profef- 
 fms make their Court to Money the gaining 
 ofrohichj as if it were the great Diana of the 
 Worlds is the, chief Mark they aim at, in all 
 iheir Vndertdings: And therefore to inform 
 ^em how they may catch this coy Mif re and 
 embrace her in their om Arms, muBneeJgk 
 a very pleafant Art. And fo much, 1 doubt 
 not, every one will be fo civil as to grant me. 
 But then their next Quefiton will he, How miilt 
 
 this be done ?- Not fo faU, Genthnen ; 
 
 ’tis a Matter of great Moment, and muU not 
 he fightly huddl’d over r And therefore I hope 
 fbu don’t expeti J fmdd tell you in the Preface *, 
 for Jam fure, I don’t intend if, for then the 
 Reading of the Book wotdd be needkf. But 
 this ril ajfure you, That whatever 1 have pro¬ 
 mis’d in the Title, I’ll make good in the Book, 
 With fevtral other ufeful and necejfary Inftru- 
 a ionswhich if Tradefmen and others would 
 A 4 dih- 
 
The Preface. 
 
 dillqpnlj prufe' and pit into TraElice^ thty 
 ■K mid get more than they dc^ and not he in Dan¬ 
 ger of lofing fo much: For here they may fee fo 
 many ffveral Ways o/Turning a Penny, that 
 (rthey don't thrive^ 'twill be their own Faults : 
 .And whether they he lik to thrive or not^ they 
 maydfohow, if they will hut give themfelves 
 the Trouble of comparing their own Management 
 ■iinihthe Rules contain'd in the following Urea- 
 y'ife. Which if they had been fooner Jimwn., or 
 *:t lea si better follow'd.^ might have prevented 
 many of thofe Statutes of BankrHpt,j which have 
 every Week taken up fo much room in our Ca- 
 siCits. And ifJuchaSuhjeSidon'tpkafe^ PH 
 t en fling my fen ayoay , 
 
The Pleafant A R T 
 
 - 0 F 
 
 Money-Catching. 
 
 C H A P. I. , 
 
 Of the Original and Invention of Money, 
 
 W Hen Cohimeree and Trar-' 
 fick was firfl; begun in tbe 
 Wovld, and Men came to 
 trade one with another, 
 there was no life of Money, nor no need. 
 of.it •, for Men barter’d their Goods in Ex¬ 
 change with each other: And as in the 
 Infancy of the World, forae were Tillevr. 
 of the Ground, and others were Keepers 
 of Sheep ^ the one gave the other Corn, 
 and took of their Shtep in Exdiangc for 
 it. And this fort of Trading is now gene¬ 
 rally in Ufe in our foreign Plantation?, to 
 fuppiy the Want-of Money ; Pni inPa> 
 
The fleAfmt Art ^ 
 fjels of Time, as Trading encreas’d, fo did 
 A-iixury begin to abound*, and as LvJxnry 
 •^oounded, fo Mens Wants grew greater ; 
 vVinch begat a NecelTity of fome other 
 w ay ot Con merce; And this was Money*, 
 which is of that Antiquity, that Jofephus 
 tells ns, That Cain (the SonofAdam^ and 
 tne Firft-born of Men) was very greedy 
 in gathering of Money togetlier^ though 
 ot what Metal that Money was made, and 
 whether it w^as coined or no,, he is filent 
 Htrodohii write! h, That the firft that coi¬ 
 ned Silver and Gold to buy and fell with, 
 ■^ere ihe Lydians: For Silver and Gold 
 feeing the moil precions of Metals, was fa 
 ninch valued, that whatever any Man 
 wanted, might be purchafed for it. Ho- 
 indeed tells us, That before Siege of 
 Tro), Men ufed to change or barter one 
 Commodity for another. But it is unde¬ 
 niable, that Money was in life long before 
 that Time: For when Jhrdim purchafed 
 the Cave of Machpelah^ and the Field in ’ 
 which it was, fora Burying Place for his 
 family', he gave four hundred Shekels of 
 Silver fork *, which the facred Text tells 
 ns. Was currant Money with the Mer¬ 
 chant; And this about the Year of the 
 World 2 g 88, which was near 700 Years, 
 before the'Deftruftion of Troy: But tho' 
 the Money was current with the Merchant, 
 yeti queilion \^hethel• it was coined or 
 not i 
 
not; for it rather appears that it receiv’d 
 its Value from it§ Weight, than from any 
 Stamp that was upon it: Their Weight 
 of a Shekle being a quarter of an Ounce, 
 and the true Value of it fifteen Pence of 
 our Money, fo that at that rate Jhraham 
 paid twenty five Pounds of ouii; Englifli 
 Money for that Burying Place. 
 
 We read likewife of Pieces of SUver, cr 
 Silverlings before this, which was current 
 Money among the Nations at that Day : 
 For jibimelech^ King of Gerar^ having ta ¬ 
 ken Jbrabamh Wife from him, upon a 
 Suppofition that (he was his Sifter; when 
 he came to underftand the Truth of the 
 Matter, not only reftored bis Wife (o liinr 
 again, but alfo gave him a thoufand Pieces 
 of Silver, or Silverlings *, the Value 
 which thoufand Pieces (each Piece being- 
 worth two Shillings and fix Pence) came 
 to one hundred twenty five Pounds, two 
 Shillings and fix Pence ■, which at ti',at 
 Day was- a noble Prefent for a King to 
 give. 
 
 But befides Shekels and Silverings ^ 
 there was Talents allb, the Weight ot 
 which was 7^0 Ounces; A Talent of Sil¬ 
 ver (for there were Talents of Gold, a? 
 well as Silver) .'ontained the Value of one 
 hundred eighty .'even Pounds ten Shilling?, 
 Of each of thefe Coins there is frequenr 
 Memion in thelicdy Senrture.-, cl the Old 
 
12 
 
 I cftament: In the New Teftament our 
 Saviour commanded Peter to take up the 
 Fifn that firft came to Hand, and when he 
 had opened his Mouth,he Ihoiild find there¬ 
 in a. Piece of Money ^ which he was to take 
 and give the Tax-gatherers for his Matter 
 and himfelf: Which Piece of Money was 
 railed a Shmr^ which contained half an 
 Ounce of Silver, and came to two Shil- 
 iings. And when the wicked Jews came 
 10 infuare our Saviour, about the Lawful- 
 nefs cf paying Tribute to C^far, he bid 
 li'.em {hew him the Tribute*money, and 
 they {hewed him a Penny, which is feven 
 Fence half penny ^ and that this was .Mo¬ 
 ney coined and ttamped, appears by our 
 Saviour’s asking them, Whofewas the /- 
 j^KKi^e and Superfeription f To which they an- 
 iwered, Cajd-i^s^ 
 
 But I need not quote the Scripture to 
 prove that the Jews and Romans ufed to 
 coin Money, the Image and Superfcriptioii' 
 giOng a Value to it, and promoting the 
 Cr.rrancy of it. For Siver was coined in 
 in the Year of the World, 3672, 
 which was about 3C0 Years before our Sa¬ 
 viour was born into the World. Hittory 
 tells us, That Silver was firtt of all coined 
 in the ItlQEgina ^ but in Rom it wasftamp- 
 ed with the Imprefs of a Chariot and Hor- 
 I'es. And Janus caufed Brafs to be coined 
 with a Face on the one fide, and a Ship on 
 the 
 
the other, in Memory of Saturnm, who 
 arrived there in a Ship. Servim Tullus^ a 
 King of the Romans, firft coined ^fafs 
 with the Image of a Sheep and an-Ox. 
 And in fome Places Leather cut into 
 Pieces, has had the Stamp of Authority 
 put upon it, anti fo it was made to pafs for 
 Money. And in Nexo England^ the Indi¬ 
 ans have Money which they call, IVamfom- 
 p£gc\ which is of two forts, one white, 
 which they make of the Stem or Stock of 
 the Periwinckle, which they call MeteaiU 
 hod^ when all the Shell is broken off:, and 
 of this fort fix of their fmall Beads (which 
 they make with Holes to ftring the Brace¬ 
 lets) are currant with the Englilh for a 
 Penny. The other fort is black, inclining 
 to blew, which is made of the Shell of 3 
 Fi(h, which they call Poqimhock • and of 
 this fort, three make an EngliHi Penny. 
 They that live upon the Sea-fide generally 
 make of it-, and as many ii.akeas will; 
 none being deny’d the Liberty of making 
 it. This Coin or Money the fndians fet 
 fuch a V^alueiipon, that they bring down 
 all the forts of Furs which they take in the 
 Country, and fell to the Indians and En- 
 glilhtoo, for this Indian-money and the 
 Currancy of it among ’em, makes them 
 look upon it as a good Equivalent for what 
 Commodities they have to fell, both the 
 EngUfn, Dutch and French trading to the- 
 Indi- 
 
f4 Phafa/tt Jr^ 
 
 Indians with it above fix hundred Miles 
 North and South from New Englmd. 
 
 Which is fnfficient to Ihew that the 
 life of Money is very ancient, and is made 
 Ufe of by all Nations, in Trading with 
 each other; and was firft invented as a 
 Medinm in Trade, and an Equivalent for 
 all forts of Commodities. 
 
 Chap. II. 
 
 Of the Mifery md Vfihappiffej! of thofe that 
 want Money^ and are in Debt byhorrrowing 
 . of it. 
 
 T Here is no wife Man that will covet 
 Money for it felf, but for the Ufe 
 that is to be made of it: For Money it felf 
 cannot fatisfie; and fo we are told by the 
 wifeftof Men, Ecclefv. lo. He that lovetb 
 Sliver pall not he fatifjkd with Silvernor he 
 that loveth Abundance.^ with Increafe. In a 
 Time of Famine, or in a befieged City, a 
 Man may have Money enough by him, and 
 yet may want a Piece of Bread: Money 
 therefcre is prized not for it felf, but for 
 its Ufe; becaufe, as So/ow2o;« alfofays. Mo¬ 
 ney an fwers all things-. And feeing without 
 Money a Man can have nothing, they mult 
 be very miferable that are v^ithout it. 
 
 Charity (in this lafi: and Iron Age of 
 the World) is grown focold, that there’s 
 fcarce any thing to be got upon that Ac- 
 ecynt : 
 
of 
 
 count; If you area-cold, Charity won’t - 
 warm you; neither; if you are hungry,; , 
 will it fill your Belly. But if you have - ^ 
 Money, you may do both. 
 
 If you have-Money, you maybe a Livery 
 iMan, an Afllftant, a Warden, a Mafter 
 lof your Company; but if you want Mo- 
 Iney, you’ll never arrive to the Honour of 
 a Beaiefor even for fuch an inferiour 
 Employment, you muft make Friends, and ’ ' 
 thatcann’t be done without Bribes, nor 
 can you bribe without Money. 
 
 If you have Money, you may be an ho- 
 neft Man, and a good Man-, but if you 
 want Money, you muft be a Knave by Con- 
 I fequence. 
 
 ’ Enquire of a rich Man among his Neigh¬ 
 bours, what he is, meaning only whether ’ 
 he be a fubftantial Man, and one that’s re- 
 fponfible; and they’ll prefently tell you, 
 He^s a very good Mun^ rilajfm yoH-: Tho’ 
 at the fame time, with refpeft to his Mo¬ 
 rals, he’s perhaps as profligate a Fellow as 
 any’s in the whole Parifh; and one that 
 lives by opprefling his poor Neighbours, 
 and_doing all manner of injullice: His Mo- 
 '* r.ey making amends for ail his Enormities. 
 
 1 knew a certain Tradefman in London^ 
 -that had an Uncle, a rich covetous.Fellow, 
 that was worth many thoufandsthis 
 poor Man addreffed himfelf to his llnlce 
 to give him an hundred Pounds to fet him 
 
up btit he knew the worth of Money 
 better than to part with it out of his own 
 Hands, before Death forc’d it from him : 
 and told him plainly he would give him 
 nothing while he liv’d, but it may be he 
 might leave him fomething when he dy’d; 
 efpecially if he found him induftrious, and 
 that he put hirafelf in a Way to live— 
 The poor Man had butlittle Money, and 
 kfs Credit, and how to put himfelfintoa 
 Way to live he knew not, his Trade being 
 none of the bed for a Journey-man; How¬ 
 ever, picking up a little Credit at one 
 place, and a little at another, he addref- 
 fes himfelf to the Company he was free of, 
 and wou’d fain have borrow’d fifty Pounds 
 of them ^ but truly they wou’dn’t lend it 
 him, but upon fuch Security as hecou’dn’t 
 procure : In this Extrem-ity, having put' 
 himfelf into a Shop, he goes again to his 
 Uncle, to defire him to lend him a little 
 Money ^ telling him he had fet up of his 
 Trade, and was got into a Shop; but 
 wanted Money to carry on his Bufinefs, and 
 delir’d him to lend him a little: His Un¬ 
 cle finding he was getting into a Way, 
 out of his great Generofity lends him lol. 
 but makes him give him a Bond.to pay him 
 again in a Year’s time. The -poor Man 
 had alrnoft as good have been without his 
 Money as to have been under fuch an Ob¬ 
 ligation •, but was refolved to kecpTcndi 
 
with liim, though he liv’d fo poorly al! 
 the time, that he \yas the Scorn of his 
 Neighbours and Fellow-Tradefmen, ' ho 
 all look’d upon him as a poor, and confe- 
 quently a pitiful Fellow : But for all that, 
 tho’ with much ado, he had the good For¬ 
 tune to pay back his Uncle the 20 /. within 
 the time limited : Which his Uncle took 
 fo well, that he told him. Since he too): fitch 
 Care to hep his Word^ he-would remetnher 
 him another time ; And fo he did • for ha¬ 
 ving neither'Wife nor Child, when he 
 died, he,divided his Eftate among his Re¬ 
 lations, and left this poor Kinfman of his, 
 thirty thoufand Pounds in ready Money, 
 and fifteen hundred Pounds per Annum, 
 And now this poor Man, whofe Poverty 
 made him the Scorn of his Neighbours and- 
 Acquaintance before, was become a very 
 ^food Adan^ all on a fudden ; infomuchthat 
 the City took Notice of him, and chofe 
 lira Sheriff t\[z very next Yearj and the 
 "ompany^ that before refus’d to lend him 
 ifty Pound, now chofe him their Alafier^ 
 ind were all his humble Servants • and he 
 ?as applauded and cry’d up by every one; 
 lere was now a mighty Change; and yet 
 the Man was the fame hill; it was Money 
 only made the Difference. Judge there¬ 
 fore whether Want of Money an ex¬ 
 traordinary Mifery, and a great Unhap- 
 Pinefs. 
 
 This 
 
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 i8 ThePlei^rArt 
 This puts me in Mind of a Story I have 
 heard related of Jocelin Piercy Efq-, Bro¬ 
 ther to the Earl of NonhumhirUndj who 
 going by a Butcher’s 5’hop near Coit>-Cro/, 
 affronted his Dog, who thereupon fell a 
 barking at him, and the Efquire made no 
 more ado, but drew his Sword and run 
 him thro’; The Batcher, who was trou¬ 
 bled for the Lofs of his Dog, charges a 
 Conftable with the Efquire, and has him 
 before a Jufticc of Peace in Ckrkenweliy for 
 killing his Dog, who was a good Servant 
 to him, and a great Security to his Shop : 
 Being before the Juftke, who knew him 
 nok he examin’d him very ftridly why he 
 JiillU. the Man’s Dog; The Efquire an- 
 fvTCr’d him very carelefly, BecaHje the Dog \ 
 .run at him, Em at ye faid Mr. Juftice, how 
 did he run at ye f To which, Piercy being a 
 comical fort of a Man, replied, He rm at 
 methu.!^ Borp^h, wou^h^ and there¬ 
 with taking a-little Run, as-if he would 
 ihew how it was, rnn upon the Juftice’s 
 Worlhip, and threw him and his Chair 
 down together j which Mr. juftice look’d 
 upon as fuch an Affront to his Worlhip, 
 as nothing would attone for, but Commit¬ 
 ting him to aggravating the Crime 
 
 of killing the Butcher’s Dog, telling him, 
 His Dog was his Servant ^ and that for 
 ought he knew, himfelf, or fome of hb 
 Gang, defign’d to rob his Shop, but he’d 
 
of Moit^Wching. r9 
 
 make an Example of him, he wasrefolv’d: 
 ?mcy feem’d.very little concern’d at what 
 the Juftice faid, which madded him the 
 more. And therefore he calls his Clerk to 
 make his Minimns^ who asking him what 
 his Name was, he faid Jocelin^ Wli^thefides- 
 Jocelin, faid the Clerk ? Piercy^ anfwered 
 he ; OfwhatPlace^ reply’d the Clerk ? Of 
 Northumberland'houfe , near Charing- 
 crofs, faid he. The Juftice heaving this, 
 and knowing there was a very comical 
 Gentleman of that Name, who was Bro¬ 
 ther to the Earl of Northumberland^ then a 
 great Favourite of the King’s ^ immedi¬ 
 ately changes his Tone, and with a fml- 
 Ung Countenance cries out, Wkt, the Earl 
 of Northumberland’i Brother .? res, and 
 pkafeyour Wor^iif^ replies he: With thaL' 
 the Juftice comes to him with his Hat in 
 in his Hand, Mr. Jocelin Piercy, yoitr very 
 vJOPh himhle Servant \ Jh&pe.^ my Lord^ your 
 Brother^s mil: Very mil Sir., I thank ye, re- 
 jply’d he: Word., 1 muPh heg yoar- 
 
 Pardon, Sir, for 1 didrit know you •, hut yon- 
 \are a comical Man, Mr. Piercy, Ivovo: Piercy 
 ^thentoid the Juftice, He muftbeghis Par- 
 |aon for throwing him down; 0, ’ewwf ' 
 Mil, ^tii very ire//; fays the Juftice; U'woi'- 
 \a little rude, 1 confef, fays Piercy ; hut ifro^ 
 HPl, hwaiyoitr om Fault ', for when you aslPd 
 me how the Dog run at me, I cod’d do no lefs 
 
 hanJhewyOU- ’Fw/ia nupllptiMinU AAv Pipr/'ir 
 
20 The Fieafam Art 
 
 fays the Juftice, thm woi m hurt done. And 
 then turning to the Butcher, (who flood 
 all this while like Mum-chance, who was 
 hang’d for faying of nothing; and look’d 
 as if he coudn't help it) Js for your part, 
 Sirrahj Vll teach you to hep your Bog voithin 
 Boors., and teach him better Manners.^ and 
 not let him run at Gentlemen^ as they walk along 
 the Streets. The poor Bufcher found now 
 that the Tide was quite turn’d againft 
 him; for Mr. Jufticeprefently command¬ 
 ed the Clerk to make his Recognizance, 
 and bind him over to the the Seffions; 
 which had been certainly done, had not 
 Mr. Piercy Interpos’d with the Jullice on 
 his behalf. 
 
 So that the Butcher, becaufe he was a 
 poor Man, was forc’d to be thankful for 
 the killing of his Dog, and glad he got off 
 fo too: Whereas had he been a rich Man, 
 he wou’d have made Piercy (as great a 
 Man as he was) have given him Satisfafti- 
 on. But when a Man wants Money, he 
 mult be thankful for Injuries, and put up 
 any Wrongs, becaufe he knows not how 
 to right ^himfelf. For as the blind Man 
 eats many a Fly, becaufe he cann’t fee ’em: 
 So the poor Man fuffers many an Injury, 
 becaufe he cann’t help himfelf 
 
 If a poor Man that wants Money, be at 
 any time fick, he’s cenfur’d to be drunk: 
 But if a rIch'Man be never fo drunk, he’s 
 . only 
 
of Momy^Catemg.: 
 
 only indifpos’d: Thus Perfons are judg’d," 
 not according to Trhtli and Juftice, but 
 accoringto their Riches or Poverty. A 
 rich Man’s an honeft Man, though he be 
 never fuch a Knave and Debauchee ■, but a 
 poor Man, though he be never fo honeil: 
 and fo good, yet if he wants Money, he’s 
 a Knave. 
 
 Let a rich Blockhead talk the greateft 
 Nonfenfe in the World, yet he Ihall be 
 admir’d and applauded 5 and if a poor, 
 but ingenious Man be in Company, and 
 cou’d fpeak a thoufand times more to the 
 Purpofe, yet if he wants Money, he mull: 
 j not prefunie to contradict him. 
 
 I Thus whofoever wantsMoney, is always 
 fubjeft to Contempt and Scorn in the 
 ! World, let him be'never fovvell accora-*’ 
 plilhed with the Perfe^ions of Body or 
 Mind: So true is that which Juvmd tells 
 us, 
 
 Nil hahet infoslix pauper t as durm in fe 
 
 Quam qmd ridicdos Homines facit .— 
 
 Nothing makes Povercy more grievous then 
 That it contemptible doth render Men. 
 
 And though it be the hardefl thing to bear 
 in Poverty, yet it is always a conftant Con- 
 comitantof it, thatitexpofes Men to Scorn 
 and ridicule ^ and that by thofe, who are 
 far more worthy of Contempt tliemfelves, 
 both in regard of their Ignorance, and 
 debauched Lives, or infignificant Conver- 
 fations. ^ 1. 
 
22 The Fledfd^t Art 
 
 I confefs, if we look backward into the 
 better and wifer Ages of the World, Ver- 
 tue, tho’ cloath’d in Rags, was more e- 
 fteerned than the Trappings of the golden 
 Afs: ’Tis in thefe laft and worfl; of Days, 
 that Vice has got fuch an Afcendant in the 
 World; as to make Men think all that are 
 poor, are miferable: For in the Primi¬ 
 tive Times, Poverty was the Badge of 
 Religion and Piety ^ and well it might, for 
 not many Great, nor many Noble were 
 called: And the Study of Wifdora, and 
 Contempt of the; V/orld, wasinEfteem 
 amongft the wifeft Philofophers in the ear- 
 lieft: Ages. But, as Ovid has it, 
 
 Timfora mutmtur^ & nos mutamur in illk. 
 
 The Times are chang'd, and even we, 
 
 ^ Seem changed with the Times to be. 
 
 So that in thefe Times, confidering the 
 Mifery of wanting Money is fo great, we 
 may fay with the wife Man, 5 o«, it is 
 better to die than to be poor : Which Saying, 
 was perhaps the Occafion of an old Mifer’s 
 Miftake, who bid his Son obferve what 
 Solomon {iidj which was, Jlways to keep a 
 Temp in his Pocket. But his Son anfwering 
 again. He didn't remember that Solomon 
 -ftid any fuch thing •, the, Mifer replied. Then 
 Solomon WAfn'tfo wife as he took him, for. 
 
 Indeed Money is now become the world¬ 
 ly Man’s God j and is the Card which the 
 D 
 
bevil turns up Trump, to win the Sett 
 Iwlthal ^ for it gives Birth, Breeding, 
 iBeautY, Honour and Credit \ and makes 
 Ithe polTeffors think,themfelves wife, tho’ 
 jtheir very thinking fo, declares’em Fools: 
 tBut becaufe Money anfwers all things, and 
 iis in fuch Vogue with the World, ther.e- 
 |{ore fo many are willing to pnrchafeit, ■ 
 Ithough with the Lofs of Soul and Body. 
 
 I But the Want of Money does not only 
 icaufe Men to be contemn’d and ridicul’d, 
 Ibut it alio puts Men upon taking wicked 
 land imlawfuKlourfes to obtain it-; Which 
 Imade one fay, 
 
 0 Paiii!crttif, Vitii Scelerlftjue Miniflra! 
 
 0 wrerched Poverty ! A Bawd thouVc made 
 To ev’ry evil Ad, and wicked Trade, 
 
 ^or it wrefteth and inaketh crooked the 
 )ell Natures • which are forced by their 
 Hecefiities to do thofe things which they 
 
 ( lufh tothirik of,while they are doing ’erri: 
 Qch is borrowing, and not being able to 
 ay' to fpeak Untruths, to cover and 
 lifguife their Poverty : To deceive and 
 bmetimes to cheat their neared Relations. 
 And all becaufe when they are in Want, 
 
 ! hey are fcorn’d, defpis’d, and perhaps dif- 
 »wn’d by them. 
 
 Nay, if it be a Friend upon which a Man 
 has laid the greatefl: Obligations • yet if 
 he c(Mnes to be in Want, and come to fee 
 jhofe he has oblig’d before, if they cann’t 
 avoid 
 
24 ' ^ he Vleajmt Art ^ 
 
 avoid bidding him dine with ’em; yet he 
 fliall be plac’d at the lower End of the 
 Table^ and carv’d unto of the word: of the 
 Meat: And though they are drinking fre¬ 
 quently one to another, yet he fhal! be 
 fain to whifper to one of the Servants for 
 his Drink, and endure all the Jeers that 
 lhall be put upon him, by thofe that are 
 courted at the upper End of the Table; 
 no; one all Dinner-time fhewing him any 
 Countenance, but looking upon him as the 
 Nufance of the Company. Thefe are 
 things fo . irkfome, and hard to be born 
 by a Generous and Noble Spirit, that did 
 not their Want inforce them to accept of 
 a Dinner, they cou’d with more Satisfa- 
 £tion dine with my Lord Mayor’s Hounds 
 in Bmhil-Fields. 
 
 Befides, whatever Difcourfe is offer’d 
 at the Table, yet the necelfitous Man, 
 (tho’ perhaps he can fpeak more to the 
 Purpofc than all that are there) muff not 
 put in a Word, but give them leave to en- 
 grofs all the Talk j and muft hear them 
 tell the moft palpable Lies, and fpeak the 
 abfurdeft Nonfenfe that may be, and yet 
 muft befilent, and fit like a Perfon that 
 neither knew norunderftoodany thing. 
 
 Now if all thefe Miferies arifing from 
 the Want of Money were but well confi- 
 der’d, it would certainly make Men wil- | 
 ling to eat their Bread at home, and not j 
 ■.. ” ” bcj 
 
be beholding to another for their Meat: 
 For, £i? alie>2x vivere quadray mifmimum 
 It is moft miferable to live on the Tren' 
 cher of another Man. 
 
 But before I leave this Subjeft, of (hew-' 
 ^ ing the mifery of Wanting Money, it is ne- 
 ceflary I (hou’d fay fomething of the mife¬ 
 ry of Borrowing Money, or Running in 
 Debt, which is a pnfequent of Wanting 
 Money : For he that does not Want, has 
 no occafion to Borrow : And is, in that re- 
 fped happy ^ for being out of Debt, he is 
 out of Danger ^ and therefore needs not 
 make ufe of the Chmcidarsy and find out all 
 the By-ways and Private-turnings,on pur-, 
 pofe to avoid his Creditors • but can walk 
 in the open Streets without fear,and Whet 
 his Knife even at the Counter Gates. 
 
 But on the contrary, he that Borrows 
 Money, has made him Rich a Slave to his 
 Creditors, that he dares hardly fay his Soul 
 is his own ^ and is afraid that every one 
 he meets is a Serjeant, or a Baililf, that 
 intends to captivate his outward Taber¬ 
 nacle : Like the Man that in the Night- 
 1 time, having his Coat catchM by a Nail, 
 i and fo Hop’d, he prefently cry’d out, Jt. 
 whofcS’.ilt ? As fuppofing it had been a Ser¬ 
 jeant that had arrefted him. The melan¬ 
 choly Air of his Face, is fufficient to tell 
 his Fears: His very Sleep is difturb’d with 
 leartul Dreams, and the very Thoughts of 
 
 'X 
 
,? 6 Tfje PleafiiMt Art " • - 
 
 a Prifon are worfe than Death to him. He 
 is afraid to fee his own Friends, left they 
 fhould be metamorphos’d into Duns ^ and 
 he would at any time go a Mile about, to 
 avoid meeting with a Creditor, whom he 
 looks upon to be the ill-natur’d’ft Man in 
 the World, for having once done him a 
 Kindnefs, he’s ever after twitting him in 
 the Teeth with it. In Ihort, the Man that’s 
 in Debt, has his Mind fo loaded with Fet¬ 
 ters, that at beft, he looks upon himfell 
 but as a Prifoner at large •, and is fo mud 
 confin’d in his own Houfe, that tho’ hi 
 hears one knock, he dares liot go to thi 
 Door, for fear of meeting with a Serjeant 
 to arreft him ^ or with a Creditor, to as! 
 when hefiiall be paid ^ and,becaufe thro 
 Poverty and Want,he has but little Fleiho; 
 his Back, threatning'to have his Bones ; ii 
 the mean time hindring him from gettin; 
 that Money with which he fiiould be par. 
 
 But befidesall this, there are other Mi 
 feries with which the poor Debtor is al 
 ways troubled, and that is, That his Cre 
 ditor grutches him every bit of Meat 1 
 eats y efpecially if it be better than ord| 
 nary; He wou’d have him and his Fa mil; 
 live only upon Bread and Water; But 
 he happens to have a good Pig at Barth 
 wOT-Tide, or a good Goofeat Mkhaelm 
 and any of his Creditors fee it, they pt 
 fently cry OUtj Hi m fnd Money to cr 
 

 his Gms^mdfted his Family with the hcfi tk 
 Seafon-affords j but k cannt ffd Momy to pay 
 me what he owes me: I am fare, I cann't live 
 at that Rate be does : And it may be that’s 
 no more than what’s true ^ not that he is 
 n’t able, but becaiife- he has no heart to 
 do it • tho’ he wallows in Wealth, as the 
 Swine does in the Mire. And perhaps 
 the poor Debtor and his Family has pinch¬ 
 ed ail the Week, to fave a little Money 
 to buy a good Meal on^ Sunday^ which 
 yet he is as afraid to be feen eating, as 
 if he had dole it, keeping his Door ihiit 
 whililit ftaiids upon the Tables and if any¬ 
 one knocks while he is at dinner, taking 
 theDilh away, before the Door be open’d : 
 And what greater Slavery can a Man be 
 expos’d to ?X)r wha't will grate more upon^^ 
 a free-born Mind ? In like fear is he alfo 
 of being leen by his Greditors with a good 
 Suit of. Cloaths on. Then the Cry is up a- 
 
 gain, 'He can find Money to ivy good deaths^ 
 h:u not to pay bis Debts! As if,kcaurc a ATn 
 owes Money, he was oblig’d to go Naked, 
 or alw^ays'in Ragi Aiid then the old Ufa* 
 rer is fare to add, Well^ J how not what a- 
 iker Folks may do, but / am fare / caniit fikrd 
 to ky out fo natch Money upon my jdf: 'i'hit 
 is, he can’t find'in his heart todoit eve¬ 
 ry Penny of Money he lays out, being niore 
 hard to part with, than fo njaay drops of 
 his .Blood : And therefore’tis hegocsi;!'n- 
 B i kit 
 
9.% The^kafmtArt 
 
 felt ill old and ragged Cloaths, made up of 
 io many ieveral forts of Patches, that it is 
 as hard to find which was the Original 
 Cloth his Cloaths were made of, as it is to 
 find out the Head of Niliis^ the Egyptian 
 River. So that whilft the poor Debtor is- 
 haunted by fuch Ghofts, if he gets a good 
 piece of Meat, he eats in fear •, and if he 
 has a good Suit of Cloaths, he is afraid to 
 be feen in ’em •, fo importunate are his 
 Duns-for their Money, and fo fill’d with 
 Envy to fee him have any thing that is 
 good; But twill conclude this Chapter 
 with Mr. Randolfhh ingenious Poem upon 
 his Importunate Duns. 
 
 On Importunate Duns. 
 
 By Mr, Thomas Randolph. 
 
 CpO-v take ye nil: B om y6u my Somrvs faeV, 
 
 ^ Jour trencBrous Faith mnkes me turn Infidel, 
 Fray ,vex me not ^ for Heavens fake, or rather 
 For your porChildremfake, or for their Father, 
 
 Tou trouble me in vain: iVkatcer you fay, 
 
 I cannot, will not, nay, I vught not pay: 
 
 Tou are Extortioners, I was not fent 
 To incrcafe your Sins, but make you all repent 
 That e’er you trujied me: We're even here, 
 
 I bought too cheap, becaufe you fold too dear. 
 
 Learn Confcience of your Wives, for they,I'll fwear. 
 
 For the moil part trade in the Better Ware, 
 
 Hark , Reader ^ ’if thou never yet hadil one, 
 i’ll fbew the Torments of a C.ambridge Dun : 
 
of Mone)~CAching. 
 
 He rails where-eer he comes ; and yet can fay 
 But this, That Randolph did not kecf his Day: 
 JT'hat ? Can I keep the Day ? Or ft op the Sun 
 From fetting, or the Night from coming on? , 
 Coil’d I have kept Days, I had chang’d the Doom 
 Of times and Seafons that had never come. 
 
 ■ Jhefe evil Spirits haunt me e’ry Day, 
 
 And ml! not let me eat,fludy or pray : 
 
 I am fo much in their Books, that 'ti: k>;omi 
 1 am too ft Idem frequent in my own. 
 
 What Damage given to m] Doors might he, 
 
 If Doors might Actions have of Battery ?■ ' 
 
 And rohen they find their coming to no end, 
 
 They Dun hy Proxy, and their Letters fend 
 In fuch a Stile, as I coiid never find 
 In Tuliy’i long, or Sencca’t ftoort tf’ind: 
 
 OOod Mafter ^andeph, pra'don me, I pray, • 
 If I remember you forgot your Day; 
 
 I kindly dealt with you ; and it would be 
 Unkind in you, not to be kind to me. ® 
 
 You know, Sir, I muft pay for what I have ,• 
 
 My Creditors won’t ftay ; I therefox-e crave 
 ' Pay me, as I pay them, Sir; for ons Brothcr 
 Is bound in Confcience not to wrong another. 
 Befides, my Landlord would not-be content 
 If I (hou’d dodge wi’iiim for his Quarter’s Rent;. 
 My Wife lies in cod; and Lneeds muft.pay 
 The Midwife, left the Fool be caft away: 
 
 And ’cis a fecond Charge to me, poor Man, • 
 
 To make the new-born-Babe a Chriftian : 
 Befides, theChurebixT-g a third Charge will be, 
 In butter’d Haberdine and Ftirminccy. 
 
 Thus, hoping you will make a courteous end, 
 (Q'mud’fgjfwcu’dit) . 
 
 Ydnr loving Friend. ■ 
 ■B A A. 
 
jc TkPleifmtJn 
 
 A.B. M.H. T.B.’h, I,. J.O. 
 
 ]. F. Pvl, G. P. W.— ll{now 
 
 Toil h.ive the fnnk Stile nil • nnd'nj for me^ 
 
 Such AS ymr Stile is, (hullyour Payment be ; 
 
 'fift nil alike: See what a cuffed Spell 
 Charms Devils up. to make my Chamber Hell! 
 
 This famejl.rrvd 'Prentice briupj; one that docs lock 
 i f^th .a Face blurrd more than his Maftcr’s Book' 
 
 0 i: that in any Chink can peeping He, 
 
 More finder than the Turd he meafwes ly : 
 kVoen my poar Stomach barky for Meat, I dare 
 Scares humour it: They make wt live ly dir, 
 ds the Camclion do • and if none fay 
 Bitter than I have done, evenfo may they. 
 
 I'H. eii [ wou'd 70 to Chappei, they betray 
 Mf Zeal, and when I only meant to pray 
 SJiito my Cod’, 'Faith all I have to do, 
 ris to pyay them, and glaJ, they'll hear me too, 
 
 ' My, (Ijcu'd I preach, the Hyfcals are fo vext, ' 
 'iiy’dfcc a Beadle to amj} my TeX't-, 
 
 And hie, if fuch a Suit tnightgranted he. 
 
 Mi) Vfe and Dccirine to an Outlawyy. 
 
 'I'his Stings ; yet what my Gaulnuft woiks upon, 
 
 Is that the Plopc ofymy Bevenge is gone, 
 f ry vaero I but to deal with fuch as thofer 
 That Igtiew the Danger of my Verfe and Profe, 
 
 I'd [beep my Mufe in Vinegar and Gall, 
 
 Till the fierce Scold grew Sharp,andhcrifd 'email. 
 But thofe l am to deal with, arefo dull, 
 
 (Tho t,et by Scholars) hs that is mofi full 
 ■ OflJndetianding, can but 'hither come, 
 Imprim^^eni) and The Total Sum. 
 
 I do r^ifn them Egypt’; Plagues ; but even 
 As kd as they ; I’ll add unto ’em [even -. 
 
of MoneyCutchmg, ' 
 
 I m(h not Locufts, Frogs md Lice cms dovu^ 
 
 But Clouds fl/Moths m ovry Shoj) i'th’ Tovrn ; ■ 
 
 Then honefi Devil to their lnk_convey 
 
 Home Aquafertis^ that may eat away 
 
 Their Books: To add more Torments to their Lives^ 
 
 Heav’n, I befecch thec^ fend 'em handfome kVives ; 
 
 Stieis .IS will Pox their FlcJlotiU Scret grow iut, 
 
 That ait their Linnen may he [font in Lint. 
 
 And give them Chilirm with ingenuous Faces, 
 
 Jndiid with all the Ornaments and Graces 
 : Of Soul and Body, that itTnay be known 
 \ To others, and themfelves, they're not their own.' 
 j And if this grieve ’em not, I’ll vex the Town 
 iVith this Curfe,'S:^tcs put Trinity Lefturedowr..; 
 But my lafi Impreciition this/hail he,. 
 
 },Uy they more Debtors have, and all like Me. 
 
 Tho’ I confefs Mr. Randolph (who was as 
 witty a Man as any in the Age he liv’d in) 
 is very (harp upon his Duns j yet confider- “ 
 ing they were importunate ones, thofe that 
 have had the fame kind of Llfage frorn ’era, 
 will think he has but done ’em juPcice. 
 
 -- But this, I prefume will be enough to 
 
 iliew theMiferyof wanting Money;; and 
 what a great 11 nhappinefs it is to be forc’d 
 to Borrow it. 
 
 i inaH next proceed to enquire into the 
 Reafons why, or by what means it comes 
 to be fo much wanted but that (hall be the 
 Biirmefs of thenext Chapter. 
 
52 ^ Ths 'Fleafmt Art ^ 
 
 CuAP, in. 
 
 An Enquiry imo the C^njes of Mens wanting 
 
 Money. 
 
 S ince Money is a thing fo necellsry and 
 fo ufeful, and the Want of a Compe¬ 
 tency of it, makes a Mah’fo very mifera- 
 ble \ rendring him liable to all the Scorn 
 and Contempt that an ill-natur’d World 
 can throw upon him^ it feems a little 
 ftrange fo many (hon’d want it, efpecially i 
 of thofe that know the Worth of it. And ^ 
 therefore it may worth our enquiring 
 into the Caufefi o!*. A'henee this Want pro-i 
 ceeds ^ I mean the common and ordinary i 
 CftUfcs •, for there are fome Caufes that are j 
 extraordinary, fuch as all our Wit and; 
 Prudence can neither fore-fee, nor avoid; 
 Such was that extraordinary and furpri- 
 zing Storm, in November^ 1703, whereby! 
 many Thoufands were undone as to their 
 Eftates, befides the many Lives that were 
 loft: AndTucb alfo was the dreadful Fire 
 of London •, whereby fome that had great 
 Eftates one Week, had fcarce Bread to eat 
 the next Week. And particular Perfons 
 had particular Loffes by Fire, many times 
 fince. Thus, in a time of War, manyard 
 unavoidably Lofers •, butthefe mu ft not W 
 reckoned the common and ordinary Ways 
 that makes and keeps Men poor. W? 
 
 know 
 
know indeed, that by the Divine Provi¬ 
 dence in the Body of a Common-wealth, 
 there muft be as well Poor as Rkh^ even 
 as an Humane Body cannot fubfill; without 
 Hands and Feet to labour, and walk about 
 to provide for the other Members, the 
 Rich being the Belly, which devour all, yet 
 do no part of the Work : But the Caufe 
 of every Man’s Poverty is not one and the 
 fame : Some are Poor by ,Condition, and 
 content with their Calling •, and neither 
 feek, nor can work therafelves into better 
 Fortune-, yet God raifeth upas by Miracle,, 
 the Children and Pofterity of thefe, often¬ 
 times to poflefs the mofe eminent Places 
 either in Church or Common-wealth,as to 
 become Arch-Bilhops, Bifhops, judges,. 
 Commanders, Generals in the Field, Se« 
 cretaries of State, States-men, and thtf 
 like, fo .that it proveth not always true, 
 which Martial fiith, 
 
 i'anfcr eris fc&fcr^ fi pauperes^' 
 
 .Sniiliane. 
 
 If poor thou srC; ihen poor thou (halt remain; 
 Rich Men alone do now rich Gifts obtain,'' 
 
 Of this Condition are thc greatefl num-- 
 ber in every Kingdom ^ other there- are, 
 who have poiTeired great Ellates, but thofe: 
 Efcates (as_ i have leen and known, if m 
 feme Faiiiilicsj an:’ ’' ot far from the City).' 
 
s4 'The Plen/mt Art 
 have not thrived or continued, as gotten 
 by OppreOion, Deceit, llfury, and the 
 i'ike, which commonly lafteth not to the 
 third Generation, according to the old 
 faying. 
 
 jDe male flafitls vixgitdct iertiushcvcs-. I 
 
 -It feldom is the Grandchild’s Lot i 
 
 To be the Heir of Goods not juftly got. f 
 
 Others come to Want and Mifery, and i, 
 fpend their fair Elhtes inWays of vicious 
 living, as upon Drink and Women ^ for 
 Bacchus and Vemis are infeparable Compa' 
 nions, and he thatis familiar with the one, 
 h E^ver a Stranger to the other. 
 
 Vno namqae mdo^ Vina Femtffte nofent. j 
 
 In one fame way, manner, andend^ ' | 
 Both Wine and Women do offend. | 
 
 Some again live in perpetual Want, as | 
 being naturally wholly given to Idlencfs' 
 thefe are the Drones of a Common-wealth, 
 vfho defer VS not to live, Qju non labor.'it ^ 
 no$ manduces: He that laboiueth not, muit 
 not eat. Labour Blight and Day., raihtr 
 than kburtki-fome., faith the B'pilh Paid: 
 
 Country, and City fwann with U\efe 
 kind of diliornt iG-./ff? Haith So- 
 
Of momy-viaicrjmg. 5 5 
 
 lomon) Jhallmak rich^ but the Skfgard jliall ■ 
 have a Scarcity of Bread. I remember when. 
 
 I was in the'Low Countries, there were 
 three Soldiers,a Dutch Man a Scor, and an 
 who for their Mirdemeancrs 
 wel'e condemned to be hanged ; Yet their 
 Lives were beg’d by three feveral Men, one. 
 a Bricklayer, that he might help him .f.o 
 make Bricks, and carry them to the '.VaFis r . 
 The other was a Brewer of Dtfi, who 
 beg’d his Man to fetch Water, and do o» 
 therWorkin the Brew-houfe; Now the 
 third was a Gardiner, and defired the- 
 third Man to help him to work in,and drefs 
 an Hop-garden : The firfi: two accepted 
 .their Offers thankfully ; this lalT the En- 
 "hjh Man, told his Mailer in plain terms,, 
 EJis Friefids had revcr brought him no to ga¬ 
 ther -Hops • and therefore defired to' b# 
 hanged finT, and fo he was. 
 
 Others having bad great Eftates left ua> ^ 
 to them by their friends, and who never- 
 knew the Pain and Care in getting them,, 
 have, as one {’lid tr-isly, galloped throngn- 
 them in a very fhort time : Thefeare fuch- 
 of whom Solomon fpeaketh, who having Ki~. 
 ekes^ have not the fkarts (or ratlver the ,Wit).s 
 to life them: Thefe M.en molt aptly are: 
 -compared to th; Willow-trcc, which is cal-.- 
 led in Latin, fntgi perda^ or Loofe-fruit,, 
 be.caufo. the Pahns of the Willow- tree are; 
 no iboner ripe, but i;!ow.a away whir 
 
 
the Wind. I remember, in Qj;:ttivE!iz.a- 
 i'ef/j’s time, a wealthy . Citizen of London 
 left his Son a mighty Eftate in Money • 
 who imagining, he {hould never be able to 
 fpend it, would ufualiy make Ducks and 
 Drakes in the Thames with Shillings, as 
 Boys are wont with Tile*(heards, andOy- 
 fter-lhells^ and in the end grew to that 
 extrcam Want, that he was fain to beg or 
 borrow fix Pence, having many times no 
 more Shoes than Feet-, and fometiines, 
 more Feet than Shoes, as the Beggar faid in 
 the Comedy. 
 
 Many alfo there are, who having been 
 born to a fair Eilate, have quite undone 
 themfelves by Marriage, and that after a 
 two-fold manner ^ lirft by matching them¬ 
 felves without Advice of Parents orFriends 
 in heat of Youth, unto proud, foolifli and 
 light Hcufwives, or fuch eternal Clacks, 
 that one were better have his diet in Hell, 
 than his dinner at Home*, thereto be trou¬ 
 bled with her never-ceafingTongue. And 
 this isthe rearon,romany of theii Husbands 
 travel beyond the Seas, or at home go 
 from Town to Town, from Tavern to Ta¬ 
 vern, to look for Companyand in a 
 word, to fpend any thing, to live any 
 where, fave at home in their own Houfes, 
 where they are fure to.have no Quiet, 
 
 Others there are again, who match 
 themielves (for a little Handibrnuefs, and 
 eye- 
 
^ ofMomf(^Atchtng~'' 
 
 eye-pleafing Beauty) into a very mean and 
 poor Family, without Birth or Breeding, 
 and fome times drawn in hereto by broken,: 
 Knaves, neceflltous Parents, who are glad, 
 to meet with fuch, that they might ferve 
 them as Props to uphold their decaying 
 and ruinous Relations, and thefe poor fil¬ 
 ly young Birds, are commonly caught up 
 before they be fledg’d, and pull’d bare be¬ 
 fore ever they knew they had Feathers *, for 
 their Fathers-in-law (or foraenear of Kin) 
 as foon as they have feen One and Twenty,, 
 have To be-limed them in Bonds, that they 
 fhall hardly as long as they live, be able to 
 fly over ten Acres of that Land their 
 Friends left them. 
 
 A Knight of eight or ten thoufand 
 Pounds Land by the Year, doted upon an 
 Ale-w]ve’s Daughter, and made her a La¬ 
 dy, and then the Devil made her prouder 
 than thole that are born fo. It cannot be 
 denied, but Women of the raeanell Condi¬ 
 tion, may make good Wives, fince P^mfer- 
 tas non eft vitiitm^ Poverty is .no Vice-, but' 
 herein is the Danger,that when their Hus¬ 
 bands have taken a Surfeit of theirBeauties 
 (as oftentimes they do) and begin to find 
 their Error, they begin (as 1 have known 
 many) to contemn them, and'fly abroad,, 
 and not only dote upon others, but uevife. 
 all the v;av'S they can (being grown de- 
 fperate), to give away or ieli ail that they 
 have ■ 
 
]8 The Tleajm ^ 
 have: Berides,thofenp-ftart Gentlewomen 
 oftentimes prove fo wickedly imperious 
 and proud, as that they make no confcience 
 to abufe, infult over, and make meer Fools 
 of their Husbands, by letting and difpo- 
 fing of his Land, gathering up his Rents, 
 putting away and entertaining what Ser¬ 
 vants they pleafe •, and thereby verify that 
 old Verfe, 
 
 Jfferms nihil efi hiimili^ cum fiirgit in ul~ 
 
 There’s nothing more perverfe and proud 
 
 than'inie, 
 
 Who is to Wealth advanc’d from beg- 
 gery. 
 
 An Italian Earl, about Nafks^ of an 
 hundred thoufand. Crowns by the Year, 
 married a common Laundrefs; Whereup¬ 
 on the oldPaf^uiu (an Image of Stone in 
 Rome ) the next Sunday Morning, or fliort- 
 ly after, had a foul and moil filthy Shirt 
 put upon his Back, and this tart Libel be¬ 
 neath : 
 
 Why horo now^ Pafquin ! I thought you mtU 
 [corn 
 
 To mar afoul Shirt on a Sunday-/-•i:5.vv • 
 
of Sdhey-Catchm^. 
 
 l-how not how to help it ^ for 'tis[aid 
 
 My Lmndrefs is of late a Comnefs made. 
 
 But there is another Inconveniency ^ 
 which is, that befides the calling of his 
 Wit and judgment into queftion, he has 
 id many worfe than Horfe-leeches, conti¬ 
 nually preying upon his Eftate,as his Wife 
 has neceflitous Friends and Kindred • but 
 they that thus marry, are commonly fuch 
 young Men, as are left to themfelves • their 
 Parents, Overfeers, or faithfullefl: Friends 
 being either dead, or at a great diftance 
 from them. 
 
 Others not afFeding Marriage at all,live 
 (as they fay) upon the Commons^ to whom 
 it is worfe than Death, to be put into the 
 Several ^ but fpend that they have altoge¬ 
 ther in irregular Courfes of Life, as in 
 Change of Houfes and Lodgings, Enter¬ 
 tainment of new Acquaintance, making, 
 great Feafts in Taverns, Invitations, Meet¬ 
 ings of their (common) Miflrefles, Coach - 
 iiire,Cloaths in Fafhion, and the like be¬ 
 fides the hanging on and intrufion of fome 
 neceflitous Paraiites, of whom they fhall 
 find as much Ufe, as of Water in their 
 Boots. 
 
 There are others again of oyer-gocd 
 free Natures and Dlfpofitlons, who are 
 caflly fetch’d and drawn in by decayed and 
 crafty Knaves (I call them no better,, for 
 in 
 
in Q'utli they are not) to enter into Bonds, 
 and to pafs their Words for their old 
 Debts and Enga^ments r, and this they are 
 wrought to do in Taverns, in their Cups' 
 and Merriment, at Ordinaries, and the 
 like Places. 1 wou’d have in the faireft 
 Room of one of thefe Houfes, the Emblem, 
 of a gallant young Heir,creeping in at the 
 great end of a Hunter’s Horn, with eafe, 
 but cruelly pincht at the coming out of the 
 fmall end, and a Fool Handing not far off, 
 laughing at him: And thefe be thofe Fools 
 who will be fo eafily Bound for others, and 
 pafs their. Words in their Drink 
 
 Facilts defcenfns Avernl, Sed revoure £ra- 
 dum, -— 
 
 ’Tis eafy into Hell to fall, 
 
 But to come back from^ thence is all. 
 
 , It is eafy flipping into Trouble, but the 
 return and getting out of itjis full of Dif¬ 
 ficulty. ... , 
 
 lwrini;;ealfoare the Cafualties that are 
 incuh-nt to the Fife of Man, whereby he 
 ma, fall ini ;. i'‘ovmy \ as Misfortune by 
 Fire, LoF at Robbery and Theft on 
 Lsnd, Wounds, lunisncfs, Sicknsfs, ©“r, 
 
 ^ Many nm oui of great Eftates, and have 
 undoae themfelves by over-fumptuous 
 Building., above and beyond their Means 
 and EftatesF, . ' Oihers- 
 
of Mo»(y-Catchmg. 41 ; 
 
 Others have been undone by carelefsand. 
 thriftlefs Servants, fuch as wafte and con- 
 fume their Mailers Goods, neither Saving 
 nor Mending what is arnifs*, but whatfo- 
 ever they are intruded withal, they fuffer 
 to be fpoil’d, and run to mine. For, QiU 
 modica fpernit^ panlatm defluit: Hethatde- 
 fpifeth fmall things, fails bydittleandlit" 
 tie, faith the Wifeman. 
 
 Some (yea a great many) have brought 
 thcmfelves to Beggery by Play and Gam¬ 
 ing, as never lying out of Ordinaries, and 
 Gaming-hnufes, which is the ready Road 
 to Ruine: Such places, like (Xuickfand^, 
 fo fuddenly fink and fwallow them, that 
 hardly you (hall ever fee their Heads ap¬ 
 pear any more. 
 
 Others (and great Ones too) afFefl: un-, 
 profitable, yea, and impoffible Inventions' 
 
 ' and Prsftifes, as the Philofopher’s Stone,, 
 the Adamantine Alphabet, the Dilcovery 
 of that New World in the Moon, by thofe 
 nevv-devifed Glafes (far excelling, they 
 fay,thofe of Galllaus) fundry Kinds of nfe- 
 lefs Wild-fires, Water-works, Extradi- 
 ons, and the like. 
 
 If any would be taught the true life'of 
 Money, let him travel into My^ for the 
 Italian (the Florentine efpecially) is able 
 to teach' all the World Thrift. For, Italy 
 being divided into many Piincipalities 
 and Provinces, and all fertile, the Inhabi¬ 
 tants 
 
42 The VIbaJM Art 
 tants are many^ (and by reafon of often 
 Difference' amongft them, apt to take up 
 Arms) the People are fubjc-:. to Taxes and 
 Impofitions ^ asinKon 'he Duke hath 
 Excife or Cuftom aUhe Gates, even out 
 of Herbs, that are brought for Sallets and 
 • Broths into the City. Having thus fliewu. 
 the Caufes of Mens wahting Money, Take 
 the following Gharafter of fuch a Man. 
 
 The Character, of tkofe thdt want Immy^ 
 drawn to the Life. 
 
 H e tip*- wanteth Money is for the mod 
 partof aforrowfal Countenance and 
 extrearnly malancholique, both in Com¬ 
 pany and alone by himfelf ^ erpecially if 
 tthe Weather be foul,rainy,or cloudy-Talk 
 to him of what you will, he will hardly 
 gi'/e you the bearing ^ .ask him any Cpiefli- 
 ens, he anfwers you with Monalyllabl^, 
 as Tarleion did one who did out-eat him at 
 an Ordinary; Tw, A^y, That^ ThanhTriic^ 
 &c. That Rhetorical Paffage of, Status 
 tmvfavitHs.^ The State tranflative is of great 
 life with him: For he is always laying’the 
 Caufe of this Want upon others, and pro- 
 tefting thh great Lord, and that Lady, or 
 Kinfman owes him Money, but not a De- 
 niere that he can get: he fwears at, and 
 murmurs againft the French, and other 
 Strangers, that com/eyfuch Sums of Mo- 
 ■ ney 
 
ney out oftheLaiul/ho’ ia truth it wou’d 
 be all one to him, ’fwere f:iU in the 
 Land-, befides, our Leather-hides, under 
 the Colour of Cal res-skins, and at that 
 word, he fhews his Boots out at the Heels, 
 and wanting mending. He walks with his, 
 Amies folded, his Belt without a Sword 
 I or Rapier, (that perhaps being fomewhere 
 [in Trouble) an Hat without a Cravet, or 
 * Handkerchief, hanging over his Eyes, on¬ 
 ly wears a weather-beaten Fancy, for Fa- 
 ihion fake; He cannot ftand ftill, but like 
 one of the Tower wild Beafts, is ftill walk¬ 
 ing from one end of his Room to another, 
 hiiinming out fome new Northern Tune or 
 other ^ if he meets with five or ten Pieces, 
 happily conferred upon him by the Benefi¬ 
 cence of fome humble Friend or other, he- 
 is become a new Man, and fo overjoyed 
 with his Fortune, that not one Drop of 
 fniall Drink will down with him all that 
 Day. 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 New JDireBions to all Manner of Perfons that 
 k, in Want or Strelghts^ how to fuf^ly them- 
 [elves with Money enough at all times. 
 
 I F a Man hath fallen into Poverty or Di- 
 ftrefs. either by Death of Friends, fome 
 Accjdeiit or other by Sea or Land,Sicknefs 
 or the like, let him not defpair • for, Pan- 
 ymasmnePt vitim: .And fifice the Com- 
 
^4 The fledfaM^^tt ‘ 
 moil-wealth is like unto an Humane Bodf, 
 Conhitirig of many Members, fo ufeful e£ "h 
 to either, as one cannot lubfifl: without t'.e 
 other ■, as a Prince his Councel, and Stat- - 
 men are as the Head; the Arms, areMra 
 of Arms *, the Back the Comr lonal:;; 
 Hands and Feet, are the Country andMe- 
 chanick Trades, &c. So God hath or¬ 
 dained, that all Meri (hould have need one 
 of another, that none might live idlely,or 
 want Imployment: Wherefore Idlenefs, 
 as the Bane of a Common-wealth, hath a 
 Curfe attending uponit,it (hould be cloath- 
 ed with Rags, it ibould beg its Bread, 
 
 A proper young Man begging of a Gentle¬ 
 man on the way in Oxfordshire^ the Gentle¬ 
 man chid him, and told him, That a Man 
 ^6f his Youth and Limbs, might be afhamed 
 \p beswhereupon the Beggar faid,. He 
 was Troubled with a loathibme Difeafe, 
 which he was aihamed to Name • the Gen¬ 
 tleman giving him two Pence, and riding 
 forwatd, fenthis Man back to know what 
 his Difeafe was •, the Beggar refufing to 
 tell him, and being threatned to be cud¬ 
 gelled, he told the Serving-mannn plain 
 Englilh, that his Difeafe was Idlenefs, for 
 he was fo Lazy, he could not Work. I re¬ 
 member i have read in an itilian Kiftory, 
 of one fo idle, that he was fain to have 
 one to help him to ftir his Chaps, when he 
 ftiould sat his MeaL 
 
. ' of Moii'ej-Catehhg, ' "" 
 
 Now if you would ask me, what courfe 
 he fliould take, or what he ftiould do that 
 wanteth Money, let him firft bethink him- 
 felf to what ProfelTionor Trade of Life he 
 hath been formerly [brought iip^] if of 
 the inferiour or middle fort of Tradefmen 
 or Artificers, (for thofe are chiefly con¬ 
 cerned in this Unhappiiiefs,) Let fuch, 
 
 FirB^ Be very diligent and induftrious 
 in their refpeftive Trades and Callings, 
 and not be flothful in Bufinefs. 
 
 Secofidly^ Let them take heed of Idlenefs, 
 and of all vain and idle Companions ^ that 
 loiter up and down, and fquander away 
 their time as if it were of no Value,when it 
 is the mod precious thing in the World : 
 There being nothing in the World that is 
 a more certain Indication of Ruin and De-. 
 ftruftion, than the wafting and mif-im- 
 provement of our Time. And yet this is 
 frequently done by thofe that wou’d take it 
 ill to be tax’d therewith : As for Inftance, 
 how many are there that fpend a great 
 deal of their time in Cofee-hohfes and JVeek- 
 ly-clah'^ where, tho’ but little Money is 
 pretended to be fpent, yet a great deal of 
 precious Time is there fquander’d away, 
 and loft ; which many (that frequent thofe 
 places) never think of ^ but meafure their 
 Expences only by what goes out of their 
 Pockets •, not confidering what they might 
 have gain’d in that time by their Labour, 
 
46 ~ 'I 'he Fle'ajam Att ' | 
 
 and 'v hat they might have fav’d by keep* 
 ing in their Shops. Let us therefore reck¬ 
 on, that when a Tradefmaii goes to the 
 Cofee-hoiifc or Alc-houfe in a Morning,'to 
 drink his Morning’s Draught, let it be of 
 what Liquor it will', where whilft he is 
 fpending his two Pence,what with Smoak- 
 ing and Talking, he whiles away at lead 
 an Hour; And in the Evening goes to his 
 Two-penny Club, and there tarries from 
 Six till Ten *, and it mufl; be but a very or- 
 dinaryTrade,which in that time could not 
 have got a Shilling •, and if he keeps Ser¬ 
 vants, the want of his Prefence at Home, 
 may have loft him as much as he could have 
 gotten in that time himfelf: So that his 
 fpending aGroat,Morning and Night (that 
 is, two Pence each time) cannot be ac¬ 
 counted lefs than the lofs of feven G'.oats 
 a Day • which comes to fourteen Shillings 
 a Week; and in a Year amounts to thirty 
 fix Popnds ten Shillings: Which if it had 
 been faved, wou'd by that time one of his 
 Children had been grown up, to One and 
 Twenty Years of Age, and fo fit to have 
 been either difpos’d of in Marriage, or fet 
 up of his Trade, wou’d have amounted to 
 Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Pound, Ten 
 Shillings ^ which wou’d have been a very 
 ample Portion to begin the World wdtb, 
 He therefore that wou’d live fo as not to 
 want Money, muft prevent all fuch idk 
 and 
 
and needlefs Expences, and unnf .eflary 
 lofs of Time. 
 
 But if the Perfon complaining of the 
 want of Money, has been brought up to 
 no Trade, then let him coniider to what 
 kind of Life his Genius, or natural Dlfpo- 
 fition does moil of all encline him: If he 
 has a mind to feek his Fortune abroad, he 
 may at once fatishe his Curiofity, fupply 
 his Neceffity, and ferve his Country, by 
 going into Her Majefty’s Service,, under 
 liis Grace the Duke of Marlborough), and 
 by putting himfelfforward in doing brave 
 Aftions, he may advance both his Fortune 
 and Family : And if he lift not to travel 
 by Land, he may enter himfelf on Board 
 one of her Majefty’s Men of War in the 
 Royal Navy ^ and have the fame Opportu¬ 
 nity to advance himfelf by brave Aedions 
 at Sea. If you lift not to follow the Wars, 
 you may find Entertainment among our 
 new Plantations in America^ as Nexo Eng- 
 lar/d^ Virginia ^ the Barhadees^ St. Chrifio-^ 
 fhers^ Jamaica reft- where, with 
 a great deal of Delight, you may have Va¬ 
 riety of honeft Employments, as Filhing 
 with the Net or Hook, Planting, Garden¬ 
 ing,and the like vvhich,beride your Main¬ 
 tenance, you {hall find it a great Content 
 to your Corjfcieiice to be in Aftion, which 
 . God commands us all to be : If you have 
 been ever in a Grammar-School, you may 
 every 
 
mci'Y where find Children to teach, fo ma¬ 
 ny no doubt^ as will keep you from ftar- 
 ving,and it may be in a Gentleman’s Houfe; 
 or if you get Entertainment of any who 
 followeth the Law, or praCiifeth Phyfick, 
 you may with Diligence and Praftice by 
 the one, prove a Clerk to himfelf, or fome 
 Jullke of the Peace *. By the other, yon 
 may get the Knowledge and Nature of 
 Herbs, and all Foreign Drugs from his 
 Apothecary , and perhaps many good 
 Receipts for Agues, Wounds, and the 
 likeI have known many this way to have 
 proved in a Country-Town tolerable Phy- 
 ficians, and have grown Rich. If being 
 born a Gentleman (as our Gentlemen do) 
 you fccrn to do any of thefe, you may 
 get.to be a G'entleman-lKher to fome La¬ 
 dy or other, they are not a few that have 
 thrived pafling well this way. The times 
 in no Age wei'efo hard, as to deny Indiift- 
 ry and Ingenuity a Livelihood j the Soldi¬ 
 er may live by the Exercife of his Sword, 
 as the Scholar by the Exercife of his Pen, 
 and not pretend unto that which be under- 
 ftandeth not; And in a word,rather-than 
 be in miferable and pittilefs Want, let a 
 Man undertake any Vocation and Labour, 
 always remembring that homely (but true) 
 Diftich of old 
 
 Think no Labour Slaviry, 
 
 That brings in Tenny fazviirly. 
 
 And 
 
' ' 6j- i\ioney»tmhlng. 49 
 
 ' And as a necelTary rule hereunto coin- 
 ;ident, Let every Man endeavour by a du* 
 tiful diligence to get a Friend, and when 
 he hath found liim, (for they are not fo 
 eafily found in thefe Days) ufe ad eare 
 poflible to keep him, and to life him as one 
 would do a Chryftal or Fmke Glafs, to 
 take him upfoftly, and ufe him tenderly^ 
 or as you would a Sword of excellent TciU- 
 per and Metal, not to hack every Gate, 
 or cut every Staple and Poft therewitli, 
 but to keep him to defend you in youi 
 extreamofl: Danger : FaKe and feeming 
 Friends are infinite, and fiich be our ordi¬ 
 nary Acquaintance, with the Complement 
 ot, / am Gild to dc you rrcll^ How have yai 
 (lv:e this time i &c. and thefe we meet 
 with every Day ; There is no Torment to 
 (he wanl ot iMoncy • it puts a Man upon 
 unlawful aiiv! forbidden Actions, and like 
 the Strapiiudo, it often llretcheth him an 
 Inch beyond hi^ length: In a word, tor a 
 Conc!ulion,!et e'ry one that wou’d be care¬ 
 ful to get and keep Money,know the worth 
 of a Penny; and (ince we are born, we 
 muft live, fGviotts ?:ous^ Ictus live as well, 
 as merrily as wc can in thefe hardeft Times’ 
 and fay every one of us, as Sir Roger lVii~ 
 lidms^ that brave Soldier faid to ,Queen 
 F.lHabeth^ when he wanted Pay for his^Sol- 
 diers; A4adam^ I tell you. trite^ IVe will be 
 tint mat Moi'iey f')r no Alan's Pica fare. And 
 C there- 
 
50 
 
 t'iicrefore to conclude this Chapter, Be al- 
 u sys careful to get, and cautious in fpend- 
 ing Money; And when you have it, know 
 ihc\v to keep, and yet how toufe it, when 
 there is occafion.For Money in your Pock¬ 
 et is always the bed Companion: And 
 t’iicrefore as one fays. Be a good Hitjhmd^ 
 and thou wilt [oon get a Benny to ffend^ a Penny 
 to Lend, and a Benny for thy Friend : For I 
 wou’dhave none be fuch Muck-worms and 
 Mifers as to ferape up Money only to keep, 
 and not make ufe of it ; For to fuch. Mo¬ 
 ney is the greatefi: Cnrfe in the World, 
 as you may fee by the following Examples; 
 
 J Ecmarlahk Account of the miferahk Lives 
 and wofiil Deaths^ of fever al Rich Muck- 
 ffkrms and Mifers. 
 
 I N the Days of King Henry Vlll. there 
 was one Mr. Grefsam, a Merchant of 
 London, fetting Sail homewards from Pa¬ 
 lermo •, where,at that time there dwelt one 
 Antonio, called the Rich , and fo he might 
 well be called, who had at one time, .two 
 Kingdoms Mortgaged to him by the Ring 
 of Sfain V and yet a Griping and Ufnrious 
 Mifcr, w'ho had indeed, the Art of Catch¬ 
 ing Money, but not of ufirg and impro- 
 vinf^ it aright: Mr. beingcrolled 
 
 by contrary Winds, was conftrained to 
 Anciior under the Lee of the IBand oit 
 
of Momj'QAtching, 51 
 from 'Bnh^ where was a burning Mountain, 
 And about the Mid-day, when for a cer¬ 
 tain fpace, the Mountain forbore to fend. 
 forth Flames, Mr, GrcDiam^ with Eight of 
 the Sailors alcended the Mountain, ap¬ 
 proaching as near the Vent as they durfi: •, 
 wiierc, amongft other Noifc, they heard 
 a V'-'ice cry aloud, faying, Dfatch^ Dif- 
 (he Rich Aiiionio is n coming : Ter- 
 n;'cd hcrewitsg they hailed their Return, 
 and the Mountain prcfently after, broke 
 out in a Flame, But from fo difraal a Place 
 they made all the hafte they could, and 
 defiring to know more of this matter, 
 (the Winds fall thwarting their Goiirfe) 
 they returned to Palmerino^ and forthwith 
 
 enq^uiring for Antonio^ they found that he 
 was Dead about the very Inftant, fo near 
 as they could guefs, that Voice was heard 
 by them. Mr, Crejimm at his return to 
 [London^ reported this to the King, and 
 the Mariners (being called before him) 
 confirmed the lame. llpon6>(jb;w this 
 wrought fo deep an Impreffion, that he 
 gave over ail his Meichandizing, dillvi- 
 buted his Eilate, partly to his Kinsfolk, 
 nnd p.indy to good Ufes,^ letainiiig only 
 i Competency tor himlelf-, and lb fpent 
 tiie reil or his Days in Solitary Devotion, 
 
52 'TheVieAfiiHt''Ari 
 
 Gromerus, of a Fich Polonian, | 
 
 A Rich, Volonian vvas very Covetous, 
 jfX much given to Rapine and Opreffi-\ 
 Oig i\ ho falling Sick, and being like toj 
 
 [lie, was admonifli’d by his Friends to fuej 
 to God for Mercy •, which he refufed to 
 do, faying, 7 hat ikrc was m hope of Salva- 
 f!vu for him ^ ?/o place of Pardon left. ■ No 
 fooner had he fpoke this, but immediately 
 tiiere was heard of the Standers-by moft 
 vehement Stripes and Blows, vvhich ap¬ 
 peared manifeitly upon the Body of this 
 dying Wretch, who prefently 'gave up the 
 C 1:0(1,10 the greatTerrcr and Araaiement 
 of all who were prefent Eye-witnelTes of 
 his fad and difmal Story.. 
 
 Spotfwood’j Hifi.oryof the Church of Scot¬ 
 land, of the Rich Bijljop of Glafcow,. 
 
 T OhnC a.meron Bifhop of Glafcow^ was a 
 very Covetous Man ■, given to Vio- 
 iciice and Oppreflion, efpecially tov/ards 
 his Poor Tenants and Vaflals ; But God 
 fiid'ered it not long to go uapunilhed ; foi 
 the Night before ChriJlmas Diyj as he laj 
 a Sleep in his Houfe at Lockwood^ fevci 
 Miles from the City of Glafcow^ he hean 
 a Voice fummoning him to appear befovi 
 ihe Tribunal of Chrift, and give an aC' 
 
ofMoney-Cai^hing. 5? 
 count of his Doings :, Whereupon he a- 
 waked, and being greatly-terrified, he cal¬ 
 led to his Servants to bring Light, and fit 
 by him: He himfelf alfo took a Book ia 
 his Hand and began to Read: but the 
 
 Voice calling the fecond time, Itriick all 
 
 the Servants to an amazemnt: The fanie 
 Voice' calling the,third time far l.,oiKler, 
 and more Fearfully, the Bilhop, after a 
 heavy Groan; was found Dead in Bed : 
 His Tongue hanging out of his Mouth : A 
 fearful Example of Gods judgment a--;ainit 
 the Sin of Govetoufnefs and Opprellion. 
 
 Strada, of the Rich Cardinal Gran veil. 
 
 C Ardinal Granvell (a great Favourite of 
 the King of Spain ) being placed un¬ 
 der the Dutchefs of Farma^ as a chief Di¬ 
 rector of all the Affairs in the Lo>v-Coun¬ 
 tries, when he was difebarged of his Office, 
 and faw all forfaking him: He faid,T^<n he 
 had lung moHgh nvaited upon other Aims Occa- 
 fmis : That a Alan hokenwith continual I'oil^ 
 could not but voijh for Refi and that to 
 one befuged with Petitioners^ Liberty was not 
 to bcrefitj'cd-^ cfpecially when he knew that Pe¬ 
 titioners and Letter-Carriers^ met like Pitcher- 
 Carriers at a Springs which they Drain and 
 Trouble: That Favour at Court^ had better 
 Face than In fide,, and that all Humane 7 hings 
 are found to hi far lefs in our Pefifion then. 
 
 C 3 ^hey 
 
54 The Pleafmt Art 
 
 they.are fmcicd in our Boys: And that a',; 
 was Vanity and vexation of Spirit. 
 
 Mr. Latimer, of a Rich Man. 
 
 Rich Man, when he ‘ay on his -tick 
 Jf\^ Bed, v;as told by one, that in al 
 probal.ility he was not a Man for thi 
 World : As he heard it, IFhat^ faith he 
 mu/ I Die ? Send for a Fbjfician • Wounds.^ 
 Side^ fJea/t, musi 1 Die ? IDounds, Side^ 
 Beart., miifl 1 Die ? And thus he continu¬ 
 ed ^ and nothing could be got from him, 
 but, Wounds^ Side., Bcart, muFl 1 Die, am 
 go \rom my Riches ? 
 
 Mr. Burroughs^ fpeaks of a Rich Man 
 who lived near him, who when he heard 
 his Sickaefs was Mortal, fends for his Bagi 
 of Money, and Hugged them in his Arms, 
 frying ; 0 muB 1 leave thee, OjmiB I leave 
 thee! 
 
 He relates of another, who when he h] 
 upen his lick-Bed, called for his Bags, and 
 laid a Bag of Gold upon his Heart-, and 
 after a while, bid them take it away, fay¬ 
 ing, A ivi/l not do. It voill not do. 
 
 j'lr, tells of one, that being near 
 unto Death, clapt a twenty Shilling piece 
 of Gold ill his Mouth, faying: Borne IVifcr 
 than [ome, 1 will take this along with me how¬ 
 ever. 
 
 C H A P. 
 
I of MoHey^Catcbrng. 
 
 Chap. V. 
 
 A New Method for Ordering of Exfcnccs. 
 
 R /ckj are for Spending, and Spending 
 for Honour and good Aftionsthere¬ 
 fore Extraordhinry Expemes mull be limit¬ 
 ed by the worth of the Occaiion ; For No- 
 Itmtary Vndoin^^ may be as v»'ell for a Man’s 
 Country^ as for the Kingdom of lleavtn • but 
 Ordinary Expences ought to be-limited by 
 a Man’s Ellate, and governed with fucli 
 Regard, as that it be within his Compafs, 
 and not fubjeft to Deceit and abufs of Ser¬ 
 vants, and ordered to the bell (hew, tnat 
 the Bills may be lefs than the Eilimation 
 abroad. Certainly, If a Man will keep but 
 of even Hand, his Ordinary Expemes ought 
 to be but/o the half of his Receipts ;; and if he 
 think to wax Rich,but to the third Part.It 
 is no Bafeiiefs for the Gieatell to defeend 
 and'look into their ow’nEdate; Somefoi- 
 bear it, not upon Negligence alone, but 
 doubting to bring themfelves into Miclan- 
 choly, in refpeft they fiiall find it Bro¬ 
 ken ; but Wounds cannot bs Cured with¬ 
 out Searching. He that cannot look into 
 his own Ellate at all, had need bothchufc 
 well thofe whom he employeth, and 
 Change them oftenfor New are more 
 Timeroits and lefs Subtile : He that can 
 C 4 look 
 
<6 The Pleaja»( Jr( 
 
 look iiito his Eftate but feldom, it beho- 
 vfth him to turn ail to a certainty; A Man 
 l;ad need, if he be plentiful in fome kind 
 ot Expmes,- to be as faving again in fome 
 others ; as, if he be pkutifuj in Diet, to 
 be faving in Apparel ; if he be plentifnl 
 in the Hail, to be faving in the Stable, and 
 iiie like : For he that is plentiful in £.v/>e«. 
 rev of all kinds, will hardly be jmeferved 
 from Decay; In clearing of a Man’s Eftate, 
 lie may as well hurt himfelf, in being in too 
 ludden, as in letting it run on too long ^ 
 lorhally-Selling is commonly as difadvan- 
 iageous as Intereft ^ belides, he that clears 
 at once, will relapfe •, for finding himfelf 
 out of freights, he will revert to his old 
 CuftomS’, but he that cleareth by degrees, 
 iiiduceth a habitof Frugality, and gaineth 
 as well upon his Mind as upon his Elfate. 
 Certainly, he who hath an Eftate to repair, 
 may not defpife fmall things ^ and com¬ 
 monly it is lefs dilhonourable to abridge 
 petty Charges, than to ftoop to petty 
 Gettings. A Man ought waiily to begin 
 Charges, which once begun, will conti¬ 
 nue • but in matters ihat return not, he 
 iiiay be more magnificent. 
 
 It is very hard for an open and eafie Na¬ 
 ture to keep within the compais of his For¬ 
 tum; •, either Shame to be obferv’d Behitid 
 others, of elfe a vain-glorious Itching to 
 Out-do them, leaks away Jll^ till the Ftffel 
 be 
 
of ^Momy-Cdtchm^. 
 
 be empty or !ow^ fo that nothing Involves 
 a Man to more Vnh.ippincfs than an heed- 
 lefs letting-go^ in an imprndtnce of mi [pending^ 
 It alters quite the Frame and Temper of ths 
 Mind. Wheh come, he that was' 
 Profiife., does eafily grow Rapacious. It is 
 cxtream llnhappinefs to be thus ccrp-.'s’d 
 of Extreamrs^ to be impatient botli of 
 Plenty and Want. 
 
 And therefore let every Man for the- 
 better Ordering of his Expences, obferve 
 the following Rules; 
 
 Firj}^ Seethal: your Comings-in^ Be more 
 than your Layings-out: For unlefs this be. 
 minded, a Man may wafte away to nothing, 
 intenlibly : If your I/irome exceed voiir Ex- 
 but twenty Shillings a Year, you 
 arc in a Thriving Condition ; but if on 
 the contrary, y'-.nr Fxper.ds exceed your 
 hiiomc.^ you 3! c in the higi'wa', to Ruin. 
 
 Seconaly.^ Keep an exadi Account of whaif 
 you Lay w/r, and what you Rictivc: Foe 
 without this, you’il be always in tiie Darh- 
 
 Tkrdiy., Saknee your Accounts at lealL 
 Once every Olnavtcr •, and tnen you'll the- 
 better fee hovv the Cafe ifaiuis with yen,, 
 aiid fo may tlie better Retrendi matterSv, 
 if you hnd you have exceeded. 
 
 ^ rcurihty^ In laying out your Money, 
 trait not to your Servants y for in fmali 
 matters they may deceive you, and y;.-;; !y; 
 
58 The Ple4mt Art 
 
 matters, may amount to a great a Sum. 
 
 Fifthly^ In all your Affairs of moment, 
 look after your Bufinefs your felf, if you 
 defire it fhouM fuccccd well. 
 
 Sixthly^ Be always fparing, that you 
 may ftill have wherewithal to fpend. 
 
 Se^vmhly^ Never Spend prefently, ih 
 hopes of Gaining for the future; Wife 
 Merchants, while their Goods are at Sea, 
 do not encreafe their Expences at Land ^ 
 but fearing the worfl:, fecure what they 
 have already in their Hands. 
 
 Eighthly^ Never Buy but with ready Mo¬ 
 ney ; and Buy there were yon f.nd things 
 Cheap and Good, rather than forFriend- 
 Ihip or Acquaintance fake-, for they per¬ 
 haps may take it unkindly, if you will not 
 ler them Cheat you ^ for you may get E.x- 
 perience, if nothing elfe, by going from 
 cue Shop to another. ' _ j 
 
 ivm/Ahg Be ready to give good Advice i 
 :; 1 ], but be Security for none ; And if 
 y rfioid or Relation preft you to it,retuie I 
 it i and rather if you can, lend him Mo- 
 fic.1 of your own nponanothers Bond: 
 fcwl:!y^ Let not thy Table exceed the 
 '^1 t of thy Revenue ; Let thy Pro- 
 Oil be f )ltd, and not far fetch’d •, fuller 
 ' M ->jhnce than Art. Be wifely frugal 
 t ly Pieparation, and freely chearfnl in 
 h nnment. Too much is Vanity, 
 
 ... is a Feaff, 
 
 Ghap;. 
 
' of Momj'CMcUng, 5 ^ 
 
 Chap. VI. 
 
 Hoto to fave Money in Diet^ Jpfard^ and in 
 Recreations^ Ike, 
 
 I T wou’d be too long to recount or e- 
 numerate the many and various Ways 
 and Occafions that Men and Women have 
 of fpendingand laying out Money, ma¬ 
 ny of which are abfolutely necelTary, iin- 
 lefs we knew how to live without Meat, 
 or Drink, and Apparel, with other ex ¬ 
 ternal Neceffaries, as Horfes, Arniourj 
 Books, and the like- in avoid, whatfo-; 
 ever may conduce to our Profit or honeft 
 Pleafure : Yet in husbanding our Money 
 in all thefe, there is a great deal of Can- 
 tion and Difcreticn to be ufed. For mofL 
 true it is, that of all Nations Iti .Enrofe^ 
 our Ennlifii are the nic-il profnfe and Caic- 
 lefs in the laying out of their Money ■. 
 Go into oil'c; Countviet (crpedallv Iiril) 
 the greaicil Ma^mfiio in Rnicc^ will tnir;;: 
 it no Diigrace to his Mar.hpcor-^i ij ^ , 
 to Market, to chcofe and buy his owm 
 Meat, and what he befl; likes Ihetc Bu' 
 we m-Enpland^ Horn to do either; fur- 
 feiting imieed of onr Plenty, whereof 0- 
 ihcr Ccuntries tail far firort. infojnuch,, 
 tint I am perfuaded, Thu ciu Cnj r, i 
 Jon, uj it f'lf alone^ tatitk -sure /-’n.- 
 
^0 Tk Pleafant An 
 
 drid /fittton hi one Month^ than all Spain, 
 Italy, and a part of Franc^', in a whole 
 'hear. ]f we have a mind to dine at a Ta- 
 /erHj we befpeak a Dinner at all adven- 
 cnre, without ever demanding, or know¬ 
 ing, the Price thereof, till it be eaten: 
 vVhen Dinner is over, there is a certain 
 Sawce by the Drawer called a Fakonin^^ 
 in a Hill as long us a Brokers .• 
 
 For 1 have known by Ex’yerience, in fome 
 Taverns, that ibmetiine at lead twice, and 
 fcnietirne thrite as miich has been reckon’d 
 -as the Meat and DrclTing hath been worth : 
 Mo qncHionlnt a fair and honed Gain is 
 to be allowed, in regard of Hoiife-rents, 
 I innen, attendance of Servants, and the 
 Irke; and there are without doubt, fome 
 (tho’ net many) Taverns very honed and 
 TC-ifonable, and the ufe of them is neceda- 
 ry : Fof if if a Man meet with a Friend 
 or Acquaintance in the Street, whether 
 rnould they go, having no Friends Houfe 
 near to go into, elpecially in any rainy or 
 f'.111 Weather, but to a Tavern? Where 
 for the Ex pence of a Pint or Qjiart of 
 '.Vine, they may have a dry Hoi!fc,a good 
 fire,and a clean Rocra to confer together, 
 '.r write to any Frieiid about Bufinefs. But 
 to have in a Bill eight Shi lings-brought 
 up tor an Ordinary Capon (as rny Lord of 
 L'.onhamptorh'i Gentlemen had ■tiiCncnw'.ch 
 in Kin^ James his time) feveu or eight 
 
of Momy-Otchhg. Si 
 ShiPings for a pair of Soals, four Shillings 
 for a Oozeii of Larks, would make a F/o- 
 rtfitnie run out of bis Wits: In which re- 
 fpecf, you may obferve, That if ourGd^ 
 laws v?oi4d bs wife^ they mght fave a cmfde^ 
 rMe Sum of Money In tk Ttar, Befides, 
 in your own private Houfe or Chamber, a 
 Difti or two, and a good Stomach for the 
 Sawee, lhall give you more Content, con¬ 
 tinue your Health, and keep your Body 
 brisk and lively, than fuch great variety 
 of Dilhes ; This pleafed ever the healthy 
 and happy : Cni fplcndct in rnenfa tami Sa- 
 linnm : Meaning, by the fmall and poor 
 Salt-Teller, a llender and a frugal Diet. 
 Curius (that noble Roman) a Mw of mar- 
 vclhits 1‘imferanct and (who 
 
 mnmt rkSamnites ami Pyrrhus himfdf) 
 when the Jmbajfadors of the Samnites hrokgkt 
 him a vaft Sum of Cold^ theyfcund him fit¬ 
 ting by the Fire^ and boiling of Tnnnips for 
 his Dinner^ with an earthen Difh in his Lap^ 
 at whifb tme he gave them this Anfwcr^ 1 had 
 rather eat in this Difh, and command o* 
 ver them that have Gold, then be Rich 
 my felt A while after, he being accufed , 
 for deceiving the State of Money, which 
 he had g'>t*en in his Conquelh, and kept 
 to himlelf,' lie took a folemn Ua-tn, That 
 he hived no more ot all he'tiot, hut that 
 one Ticeil or wooden Barrel, '.hicb hs 
 had ibeie by him, Maivciious w is ihe. 
 
 Tempe,. 
 
62 The T leaf ant Art 
 Temperance of the k’ndtwt .Romans in 
 their Diet, as alfo of the Turh^ the Itali¬ 
 ans and Spaniards at this Day : ' But it is 
 in them Natural not Habitual, and by cou- 
 feqiienccno Vertue, as themfelves would 
 have it. For the Inhabitants of hot Coun¬ 
 tries, have not their digeftion fo ftrong, 
 as thofe under cold Climates, whofe Bo¬ 
 dies by an Antiperiftafis^ or furrounding of 
 the Cold, have the natural Heat repelled 
 and kept within them. Which is the rea- 
 fon that the Northern Nations are of all 
 others the greatell: Eaters and Drinkers • 
 and of thofe, the French fay, we of Eng¬ 
 land have the bell Stomachs, and are the 
 greatell Trenchermen of the World, Les 
 Anglois font les pins gros mangms^ de tout la 
 monde ; But they are deceived \ thofe of 
 Denmark and Norway exceed us, and the 
 Rnjfans them. ■ I confefs we have had 
 (aiid perhaps have yet) forae remarkable 
 Eaters amongft u.s, who for a Wager would 
 have eaten with the beft of them; as Wol- 
 rner of Windfor^ and one Wood of /few, who 
 cat up at one Dinner,fourteen green Geefe, 
 equal to old Ones in bigriefs, witii Gnofe- 
 berry Sauce,according as has b'en affirm¬ 
 ed to the Lord Richafd Em I of D'rf r, at 
 a Dinner time at Ids Houle at Kmvl in 
 Kent^ by one of his Gent'enieii who was 
 aa Eye-witnefs to the lame. 
 
 But 
 
of Monej-Catchittg. 6j 
 
 But the truth is, That thofe Men live 
 thelongcft, and arecomm^'nly in peifect 
 health, who content tbemfclves with the 
 leaft and fimplefi: Meat, which not only 
 faves the Puvfe, but preferves the Body, 
 as we fee in Lancafire^ Shroff ire^ Chejhire^ 
 Torkfire, and other Counties which are re¬ 
 mote from the City •, and it is Mr. 
 
 ^f«’s Obfenmticn in his Britannia^ Vt din- 
 this niivant qiti vtfcimtHr LaEiiciniis ; Thev 
 I are commonly long Liv’d, who live by 
 Whiteroeats, as Milk, Butter, Cheefe, 
 Curds and the like. For, M/dta fcrada 
 midtos morhes aigmre^ was truly faid of St. 
 Jerome^ as being apt by their fund ry and 
 and oppqfite Qualities to breed much Cor¬ 
 ruption. How healthful are Scholars in. 
 our Uiiiverfities, wliofe Commons are no 
 more than fuffices Nature ? Neither yet 
 would I have any 
 
 his F/irfs^ as an Ufurer was won’t to do, 
 who was indebted two hundred Pound to 
 his Belly, for Breakfeafts, Dinners and 
 Suppers, which he had defrauded it of in. 
 TermTimes at London^ and in other pla¬ 
 ces, employing his Money to other pur- 
 pofes. 
 
 Another rich Ufurer, who made it his 
 cuftom every Term, to travel to Lotidon 
 on Foot,in lagged Cloaths, and fomceimes 
 did even beg of the Thieves iherfelves, 
 and was fo well known,, that atlafl; they 
 ^ok- 
 
64 The Ple/tjm Art 
 took notice of him, and examining his 
 Pickets, found but litrle Silver, but a 
 great Black Pudding, in one end where¬ 
 of his Gold was. The Ufurer, pleading 
 Hunger, defired the' Thieves, for Gods 
 fake, to give him half of it back again, 
 which being granted, and the Ufurer find¬ 
 ing it to k the wrong-end, he defired 
 them to give him fome of the Fat in the^ 
 other end to his Lean : yon Rogue^ faid 
 
 the Thieves, you have had your Cut already^ 
 you jhall m have a Crumb more: And as 
 they cut the other End themfelves, to 
 talfe of the Pudding out drop’d the Gold. 
 
 Money may well be fayed, in Travel 
 or in Town *, if Three or Four lhall j lin 
 their Purfes, and provide their Diet at 
 the Beft-hand- it is no lliame fo to do. 
 
 I have known alfo fome who have been 
 very skilful iiv drcfiing their own Diet. 
 Homer tells us, that Jchilles could play the 
 Cook excellently well : A^nd I believe, it 
 were not araifs for our Engiijh fravellers 
 fd to do in Forreign Countries, for ma¬ 
 ny reafoiis 1 have known, avid imt fiiffer 
 themfelves to be cheated., as they fo fre¬ 
 quently are in Pnblick Houles; For it a 
 Man goes mto a Publiciv Hank, and calls 
 fora full P'lt of Beer - it is three Co one, 
 but tnat by Fioathingit up, he ihall wani: 
 ab aqiurter of a Pint of his Mealure , 
 ■ok if i Man takes noisce of if, a.:.! iiu 
 
of Momy-CAtehiug. 6^ 
 lilts upon.its being fill’d up,[it is look up¬ 
 on as Ungenteel, and a piece of Rudencfs ^ 
 and yet if a Man wants but a Farthing, or 
 a Half-penny of his Reckoning, they wont 
 fufFer him to Rir out of the Houfe, till he 
 has either paid it, or left a Pawn for it: 
 
 ' And fo the Taverns, if you call for a Bot¬ 
 tle o-f Wine, they’ll bring you a Bottle, 
 
 I and reckon the price of a Quart for it, 
 when perhaps, it (hall hold not above a 
 j Pint and a Half-, that in four Bottles you 
 llole a Quart of Wine, and yet mufl: pay 
 the full Price for it. And the eafinefs- of 
 Gentlemen in fufFeririg themfelves to be 
 thus Impos’d upon, has made it fuch a 
 Cuftom, that the FiTimrs and Ak-lmfe- 
 hevers look upon themfelves to be affront¬ 
 ed, when they arequeftion’d about it. And 
 fo by degrees the Jle-honfe-keepers become 
 Gentlemen and buy Eftates in the Coun¬ 
 try i and Country-Gentlemen are forc’d 
 by their High-living and extrsvagant Ex- 
 pences to fell their Eftates and become 
 Beggars. 
 
 Nor is it only by making Retrenchments 
 in Eating and rjrinkiug, that Money may 
 be fav’d, but in Apparel alfo- which in 
 Women tfptcially, is grown to that ex¬ 
 travagant and luxuriant height,thai it will 
 coft many Tradelmen as much Mone\ to 
 new-rigg their Wives, as to fet up their 
 Trades^ aFurbelow’d-ScarfFalone being 
 not 
 
66 The Tleajant Art 
 not to be purchas’d under as much Money 
 as heretofore vvou’d have bought a good 
 Citizens Wife a New Gown and Petticoat; 
 and which wou’d become her a great deal 
 better, than this Fantaftick and truly 
 High-flying Fafhion, brought over from 
 France, to make Englifli Women Fools, 
 and theirHusbands Beggars.For how many 
 Statutes of Bankrupt have our Gauttes been 
 fiird withal, fince thefe Furbelow’d Falhi- 
 ons came over; every one ftriving to out¬ 
 do another, and wafte more Silk in hav¬ 
 ing a larger Furbelow : Whereas before, 
 it was a rare tking to hear of a Statute of 
 Bankrupey taken out againft any Man once 
 in an Age. — But thefe Fiirbelo’s are not 
 confin’d only to ScarfFs, but they muft 
 have Furbelow’d Gowns, and Fuibelow’d 
 Petticoats, and Furbelow’d Aprons; and 
 as I have heard, Furbelow’d Smocks too; 
 and perhaps fomewhat elfe. (not lo pro¬ 
 per to be nam’d) that’s under ’em. And 
 to what purpofe is all this Wafte, but 
 to increafe their Pride, and empty their 
 Husban^Ps Pockets ? 
 
 ’Tis true, the Garb and modern Appa¬ 
 rel of the Men, is more Neat and Decent 
 than it has been in former Agestho’ the 
 
 many Pleats in their Goats, take up a 
 
 great deni more Cloth than needs; but 
 leeini it tends to the Gonlumption of out 
 Woollen Maaufaefure, and therein ferves 
 
of Money-Catchhg, 6j 
 the Publiek, 1 have the lefs to fay again!!: 
 it Only to thofe who have a mind to be 
 moderate in their Ixpences, and yet wear 
 that which is good ^ I recommend ^em to 
 the Quakers for a Pattern, whofe Garb 
 both for Men, but efpecially for Women, 
 is very becoming. 
 
 The next thing by which we may fave 
 Money, is our Recreations; of which 
 fome are more Expenfivc and Chargeable 
 than others *, calling for more Charge, 
 and requiring more Addrefs; Tilting is 
 one of thefe, which formerly was much 
 11 fed in the Courts of Princes; but of late, 
 Tilting of one another in Earneft, has 
 caus’d that which is in Jeft, to be quite 
 out of Fafliion, But what I intend, is the 
 Recreation of private Men : For fuch is 
 the Frailty of Humane Nature, that we 
 cannot Rand long bent, but we mull have 
 our Relaxations both for the Mind and the 
 Body ; and both have their peculiir R.S; 
 creations; Thole wliich are proper to the 
 Mind, is reading of delightful and plea- 
 fant Books, and the Knowledge of the 
 Mathematicks, and other Confemplative 
 Sciences; which are the more taking and 
 delightful, becaufe the Pleafures of the 
 
 Mind are more Noble and Excellent than 
 
 thofe of the Body: And thofe that pecu¬ 
 liar to the Body are Walking, and Riding, 
 Skootiiigand Hunting,Hawking and Fovvl- 
 iflg; 
 
68 The Fieaftnt Jrt 
 ling: Alfo Ringing and Pall Mall. Thefe 
 are Plea fares withoat Doors ; but there 
 are others that are within Doors, and 
 thole are playing at Chefs, Tables, Fox 
 and Goofe, Cards, Dice, Billiards, and 
 fuch others. 
 
 Now with refpeft to your Recreations, 
 let the following Rules be obferved. 
 
 f/r/?. Let your Recreations be fhort 
 and innocent •, and take heed to avoid all 
 thofe dangerous Games and Sports that 
 are apt to take up much of your Time, or 
 enfnare your Affeftions, and fo caft you 
 off from your more fevere and manly 
 Imploymeats. 
 
 Secondly, If you have a mind to Recreate 
 your felf, remember that Recreation is fo 
 called d Rccreando that is,from a Metapho¬ 
 rical new Creating of M in,by putting frefh 
 Life and Vigour into him, when the Pow- 
 *ers of his Mind and Body have been de¬ 
 cay’d and weakned with over-much Study 
 and Labour; and therefore is to be ufed 
 only to that end. 
 
 Thirdly^ Avoid thofe Recreations,which 
 inftead of Divertbig, do only ferve to 
 trouble and ainufe the Mind, perhaps 
 much more than the hardelfc Study : Such 
 a Diverfion is Chefs, which was therefore 
 not improperly ftiled, .4 dhilofophtcalFol¬ 
 ly j by King the Bril. 
 
of Monej-Catching. 6g 
 Fourthly^ life fuch Recreations as leave 
 no Sting of Repentance after them, for 
 Sin committed in them ^ or Grief and Sor¬ 
 row for lofs of Money and Time, many 
 Days after; for this takes away all the 
 Notion we have of Pleaiure. 
 
 Fifthly, If therefore you wou’d Play to 
 divert your felf, never venture more vio- 
 ney at it than what you intend for idle 
 Expcncf’s •, or at moft, to much as may 
 whet your Attention to your Game, but 
 not reiider you anxious about the ilTiie of 
 it, tor that will take away the Pieafure. 
 
 Sixthly^ Let thofe with v you play, 
 be of vour Friends and Acquaintauce , 
 and not Strangers, vvhofe Humours and 
 Difpolit.oiis you know- not, 
 Srac7;0;/);Neither Borrow nor Lend Mo¬ 
 ney to play withal', mtici; kfs carry any 
 thing t) Pawn to help you w ith Money y 
 for he that (hall be guilty of fuch fordid 
 Actions, is unwo: thy the Name of Gentle¬ 
 man, or of a fober Citizen. 
 
 Eighthly^ In all vour Recreations, avoid 
 having any thing to do with them that are 
 given to (iJarreiliiig, Swearing, or Cur- 
 fing ; for if you keep Company with fuch 
 Perfons, it is impoITible you (hould be in¬ 
 nocent. 
 
 Ninthly^. Never play for more than you 
 are willing to iofe ^ That fo you may 
 &iid your felf, after your Paftitne, not the 
 worfe, 
 
70 The Tleafmt Art 
 worfe, but the better ^ which is, or ought 
 to be, the end of all Recreation. 
 
 Tenthly^ To conclude tins Subjeft : Let 
 not your Recreations be lavifli Spenders of 
 your Time , but choofe thofe that are 
 Healthful, Short, TranFicnt, Recreative, 
 and apt to Refrefh you •, but by no means 
 dwell upon them,or make them your great 
 Employment ^ for he that fpends hisTime 
 in Sports, and calls it Recreation, is like 
 him whofe Garment is made all of Fringes, 
 and his Meat nothing but Sauces •, they 
 are Healthlefs, Chaigeable, and Ufelefs^ 
 and therefore avoid fuch Games which 
 require much time, or long attendance ^ 
 or which are apt to Real away thy AlFcdti- 
 ons from thy dally Calling^ which mule 
 by no means be neglected •, efpecially where 
 thy Family’s SubfiTtance depends'upon it: 
 For to whatfoever thou haft given thy Af¬ 
 fections, thou will not grudge to give thy 
 Time. Natural Ncccflity, and the Exam- 
 le of St. "John (who as Hiftory tells, re¬ 
 created himfelf with a tame Patnd^c) 
 teaches us, that it is lawful to relax and 
 unbend our Bow, but we muft not iuffer 
 it to be unready or unftrung. And there¬ 
 fore make not an Occupation of any Re¬ 
 creation : The bngeft ufe of Pleafure is 
 but Ihort Uft therefore hvvful Recrea¬ 
 tions, fo far forth, as it makes thee fitter 
 in Body and in Mind, to do more che.ir- 
 
Of -ji 
 
 fully the Service of thy Creator, and the 
 iDuties of thy Calling; remembring al¬ 
 ways thy Work is great, and thy Time is 
 &ort •, and how little thou haft done: Be 
 therefore careful lieHceforth, to make the 
 raoft Advantage of thy fliort time that 
 remains \ as a Man would of an old Leafe 
 that was near Expiring: And when thou 
 art difpofed to Recreaf e thy felf, lemem- 
 ber how fmall a time is alotted for thy 
 Life \ and that therefore much of it is not 
 to beconfuraed in IdieneR, Sport?, Plays, 
 and toyifh Vanities: Seeing the whole is 
 but a fltort while, tho’ it be all fpent ia 
 doing the beft Good that thou canft: For 
 Man was not Created for Sports, Plays, 
 and Recreations, but for higher and no¬ 
 bler Ends. 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 How A M:in may always h(p Money in his 
 Pockets. 
 
 H e that wou’d always keep Money in 
 his Pocket, muft firft be a Perfon 
 iiduftrious to get it, and Secondly, Care- 
 bl to keep it ^ and Thirdly, Cautious 
 in fpeading it- 
 
 I. He muft be Induftrious to get it^ 
 md muft make Hay while the .Sun Ihines, 
 iail while the Wind blow fair; and fol- 
 .ow the Current while the Stream runs 
 
^ 'I'he FleAfant Art 
 
 ftrong ; for if Fortune be follow’d, as the 
 firft falls out, the relfc will follow : Mo- 
 ney is a Cciy Miftrefs, and is not to be 
 won without much Courting j that is, not 
 without Labour and Induftry ; And with* i 
 out Diligence in acquiring, it is impoffi-1 
 to keep a'Penny in thy Pocket ^ and this I 
 the facred Oracles abundantly inform us, 
 by telling us, It is the dilgcm hand that muk- 
 eth Rich •, and alTuring us,that the jlothfnl Soul 
 jhall frffir Huttgtr : Yea, Sohrmi^ ( a Man 
 fo famed for Wifdom, that he never had 
 his equal) gives fuch a high Encomirnum to 
 Diligence, that he asks, SaJl thou a Mun 
 diligent in his Bnjhcl / He pn!l jinnd before 
 Kings he jhall not (ixnd he'.ure mean Aten ; 
 As if he had faid, Such a Man is worthy 
 of the higheft Honour, and fit to he in- 
 trufted in the mod Arduous Adairs •, be- 
 caufe a diligent Man will (pare no Pains in 
 doing what he is employed in; He is not 
 a talking but a doing xMaiv, and knows that 
 in all Labour there is Profit^ but the talk of Iht 
 Lifs tendeth only to Penury. And as he com¬ 
 mends Diligence in Biirmefs •, I'o he, on the 
 contrary, lets forth the lamentable Fruits 
 and EfFsds of Slothfulnefs, fending the 
 Sluggard to the Ant to learn Wifdom,and 
 
 faying he is as Smoke to the Eyes, and a 
 Vinegar to the Teeth, and that his v«] 
 is an hedge of Thorns- and telling ii 
 that, he that his flothful in his vVork, i 
 Bro 
 
74 The Vleffjdfit Art I 
 
 be Careful to keep it; For if a Man be 
 , never fo Induftrious in getting Money, 
 yet if he be’nt Careful in keeping it, all 
 that he does will be to no more pur- 
 pofe, than Good-Cow’s giving 
 
 a good Meal of Milk, and afterward.; 
 kicking it down with her Heels. But 1 
 need fay the kfsupon this Head, becaufe 
 it is not eafie to imagine, that he that 
 has been .Diligent in getting Money, (hon’d 
 be Carelefs in keeping it; For itnlefs it 
 be your common Sailors, there’s few that 
 are guilty herein. ’Tis true, there’s none 
 that labour more, or venture farther than 
 they •, and yet there’s very few that are' 
 more Carelefs of keeping it, and lefs 
 Cautious in fpending it. The contrarj. 
 Evil is more prevalent among us, I mean 
 of Perfons that have been very Diligent 
 ill amafiing up of Treafure together; 
 which when they have got, they are fo 
 careful to keep, that they have not an 
 I'leart to lay it out about their necelTarj 
 Occafions •, and know no other ufe of Mo' 
 ney, but only the having it; Thefe an 
 Men that carry no Money in their Po.o 
 kets,, for fear they (hon’d lofe'it *, bul 
 their Chefts are cramm’d with it; Theft 
 are fuch as will make the Queen’s Col 
 ledors come often for their Publick Ta.^ 
 es, not becaufe they ha’nt Money, but be 
 caufe it goes to their Hearts to think o 
 
parting with it •, and had rather venture 
 the French King’s coming to take it all, 
 than to part with any for the Defence of 
 tiie Nation. Indeed it is to fuch .Hoarders 
 up of Money as thefe, that we owe the 
 prefent Scarcity of . it : For whatever- 
 comes into fuch Mens Clutches, never 
 circiilates in Trade, nor fees the Light 
 until its Owners Eyes are clos’d 
 , for ever. And therefore one aptly com¬ 
 par’d the Money fo heap’d up in Chefts to 
 Dung, which while it lies upon a heap, is 
 of no manner of Advantage-, but when 
 difpers’d and call Abroad, makes fruit¬ 
 ful all the Fields tis thrown upon. Ife 
 was upon this Account, that Jrifmk pro¬ 
 nounc’d the Prodigal Spendthrift a great¬ 
 er Senefadtor to his Country, than the 
 Griping Mifer-, becaufe every Trade and 
 Vocation far’d the better for him; as the 
 Taylor, Habcrdalher, Vintner, Shooma- 
 kcr, Hoftkr, &c. 
 
 The Covetous Perfon is acquainted 
 wi lii none of thefe; for inllead of Sat- ' 
 he fuits himfeif with Sacking; he 
 trembles as he palTeth by a Tavern-door, 
 to hear a Reckoning of eight Shillings' 
 fenc up into the half Moon, for Wine, 
 Oyfters and Faggots; for his own natu¬ 
 ral Drink (you miuT know) is between 
 that the Frogs drink, and a kind of piti- 
 iiil Fmall Beer, too bad to be drunk, aiid 
 P 2 
 
7 ^ The Pleafm Aft 
 fomewhat too good to drive a Water-mill: 
 The Haberdafher gets as little by him, 
 as he did by a Gentleman of Sudhry in 
 Suffolk^ who when he had worn a Hat eight 
 and thirty Years, would have petitioned 
 the Parliament againft Haberdaihers for 
 abufing the Country, in making their 
 Ware fo flight: For the Shoe-maker, he 
 hath as little to do with him, as ever Tom 
 Coryathad : For Sempflers,perhaps he may 
 love their Faces better than their Faihl- 
 ons; For Plays, if he read but their Ti¬ 
 tles upon a Poit, he hath enough. Ordi¬ 
 naries he knows none, fave Tome of three 
 Pence in Elachhorfc-A\ky.,znd fuch places, 
 for Tapfters, and Hoftlers, they hate him 
 as Hell, as not feeing a Mete in his Cup 
 once in feven Years. This miferable Ma¬ 
 iler flipped Himfelf and his Man at the 
 Inn with a Qiiart of Milk. 
 
 Again, There is alfo many other Men 
 loath to part with Money in thefe ticklifii' 
 Times, being defirous, if the worfl; fliould 
 • happen, to have their Friends about them, 
 as Sir 7 homas Moore faid, (filling his Poc¬ 
 kets with Gold) when he was carried to^ 
 the Tower. 
 
if 77 
 
 Argnments to keep Money, 
 
 A Ll People complain generally (as I, 
 have already faid) of the want of 
 Money, which like an Epidemical Difeafe,. 
 hath over-rnn the whole Land ^ the City 
 hath little Trading; Country-Farmers 
 complain of their Rents yearly raifed, by 
 tiicir Landlords, and yet can find no ut¬ 
 terance far their Commodities, or mu/h 
 fell them at under-rates. Scholars with¬ 
 out Money get neither Patrons nor Pre- • ■ 
 ferment:; Mechanick Artifts no Work,- .. 
 and the like of other Profeflions. One 
 very well compared worldly Wealth, or ' 
 Money,unto a Foot-bail, fome few nimble • 
 heeled and light-headed run quite away 
 with it, when the moft are only lookers 
 on, and cannot get a kick at it in all their 
 Lives, Therefore keep your Money ; 
 
 For go but among theTlfurers in their 
 Walks in Moorefields,^ and fee if you can 
 borrow an hundred Pounds of any of them 
 without a treble Security, with the life • 
 one way or other doubled ; and as-your 
 Self, fo mult vour Eftate be particularly 
 known. A pieafant fello,w came not long 
 fince to one'of them, and defired him that 
 he would lend him fifty Pounds; quotli 
 the Ufurer, My Friend,^ I know ye not: For. 
 that reafon only I would borrow the Money of 
 D 3' 
 
7 H The Pledf int Art 
 
 faid he • for if yon hicw me,^ J am fnrc 
 yoi: wcnla r,ot lend me a Pomy. 
 
 A Country Tenant meeting with his 
 uiireratie i..nndlcrd in the Term-time, did 
 ■ dfer him the courtefie of a Pint of Sack ■, 
 ic wiiom tim Landlord faid, Be a good Hits- 
 bmid, mid five one fix Pence^ and give me 
 lU od:.r^ and / irdll take it as kindly^ as if 
 yon had fptnt the whole twelve Pence. 
 
 Another meets a Creditor of his in 
 Tlet-flrm._ who feeing his old Debtor, Oh 
 AL'ficr. A quoth he, Ton are met in good 
 time, yon know there is Afoney between ns^ 
 and hath been a long time.^ and now it is be- 
 come a fcarce Commodity: It is trite^ Sir.^ 
 quoth the other? (helooking down up¬ 
 on the Stones that were between) for in 
 good faith I fee none ; And this was all the 
 Citizen could get at that time, but after¬ 
 ward he wasv'/cUfatLfied. 
 
 Whom would it not vex, to be indebt¬ 
 ed to many of your Shopkeepers, who 
 though they have had their Bill truly paid 
 them, for many Years together, yet up¬ 
 on the fmallefi: diftafte, or a petty mi- 
 ' flake in Reckoning, pr fome Remnant be¬ 
 hind,(ball be called i’.pon,opjnly Rail’d at, 
 by their impudent and clamorous Wives, 
 iiifultedover, andlaftly Arrefted- which 
 ftonld, methinks, teach every pung Fa- 
 ihion-monger, either to keep himfelfout 
 of Debt, or Money in his Purfe, to pro- 
 
i ^ The PltuJaNt An 79. 
 
 vide Cerberus a Sop. But at fometimes 
 Money when it is due unto you by your 
 own Labour or Defevt, is kept from you- 
 by fjnie Rich, Miferable, or Powerful 
 Man or other, till after long waiting 
 Day by Day, and hourly attendance at 
 his Houfe or Lodging; you not only iofe 
 your Time and Opportunity of getting 
 itclu'where, and when all his done, muft 
 It glad to take Five'in the Hundred,' or 
 clfe Fair and Can did Promifes, which- 
 will inrich you ffraight, Prc^rsiffis divpqni- 
 libit c([e p-onfi. If Words and Promifes 
 would pafs for Coin, there would be no 
 Man poor. And fomc Men there are of 
 that currifli and inhumane Nature, whom, 
 if .you {hall Importune through urgent. 
 NecelTity, then are you in danger to iofs 
 both your Monies and their Favours for 
 ’ver. Therefore be carcfid 10 kefjottr Money^ . 
 
 For would you prefer and place your 
 5on in the Unive?fity ? Let him deferve 
 tever fo well, as being an able and rea- 
 ly Grammarian, yea, Captain of his Form, , 
 f'cu fhall very hardly prefer him, without 
 peat Friends joyned with your great 
 hirfe ^ for thofsjii.fl; and charitable Times, 
 therein Dcfert feldcm went without its- 
 lue, are gone ; the like 1 may fay of the 
 lity, where, if the Trade be anything 
 ike, you cannot place' your 5o.n under 
 liree.Fcore or an hundred Pounds, though 
 by ^ 
 
by Mature he was (as n^any are) made, 
 Mr Inc faffiEj and of Wit arid Capacity 
 never fo pregnant. Tbcrefvrc keep"your 
 
 Or you a Daughter by Birth well 
 DefccndeiL Virtuous, ChafLe, Fair and 
 Goiiiely r, Lidued with the bell cciiimenda- 
 blcQiiDtiev; that may be required in a 
 Young, Beautiful, and Modelt Maid, if 
 you have not been in your Life-time thrif¬ 
 ty, to provide her a Forticu, (he may 
 live tiilfii.e is as old as Greufa^or t heNurfe 
 of i/Emis^ c’re you (hall get her a good 
 Match. 
 
 N^irn gtriHS & fomm Retina ^eemia 
 
 douat. 
 
 Money’s a Queen that doth bedow, 
 
 Beauty and Birth to High and Low. 
 
 It is as true, as old : Hence the Dutch 
 have a Proverb, that Gentility md fair 
 Looks by nothing in the Market. 
 
 if you happen to bs (ick or ill, if your 
 Puife hath been lately purged, the Do¬ 
 ctor is not at leafure to Vifit you ^ yea, 
 hardly your Neighbours and familiar 
 Friends* but unto monied and rich Men 
 they fly as Bees to the Willow-palms; 
 and many times, they have the Judgment 
 of fo many, that the Sick is in more dan¬ 
 ger of them, than hi'; Difeafe. 
 
 k 
 
’ of-Momy-CAtcUng: 
 
 A good and painful Schoilar, iiaving 
 lately taken his Orders, (hall be hardly- 
 ahle to open a Church-door, without a 
 Golden Key, when he Ihould ring his 
 Bells: Hence it cometh to pafs, that fo 
 many of our Prime Wits run over-Sea 
 to feek their Fortunes, and prove fuch 
 Vipers to their Mother-Country. 
 
 Have but an ordinary Suit in Lav;, let 
 pur Caufe or Cafe be never ib plain or 
 juft, if you want therewith to maintain 
 it, and as it were ever and anon to wa¬ 
 ter it at the Root, it will quickly wi¬ 
 ther and die : I confefs, Friends may do 
 much to promote it, and many prevail 
 by their powerful affillaace in the pra- 
 fecution. 
 
 There was heretofore in Trance^ a mar¬ 
 vellous fair and good Lady, whofe Hus¬ 
 band being imprifoned for Debt, or fome- 
 thing elfe, was conitrained to make bis 
 Wife his Solicitor, and to follow his Suits 
 iii Law, through almoft.all the Courts inP^- 
 w j and indeed through her Beauty ftie got 
 extraordinary favour among the Lawyers 
 and Courtiers, and almoR a final difpatch 
 of all her Banefs, only file wanted the 
 King’s Hand : (who was Henry the Fourth, 
 of famous Memory) He, as he was No¬ 
 ble, Witty, and an underftanding Prince, 
 being informed how well fne had fped 
 (ber Suit being in the opinion of moft Men 
 S?'5 ' " 
 
^2 The FteafaHt An 
 defperate or loft) told her that for hh 
 part he would willingly fign her Petiti¬ 
 on ^ but withal asked how her Husbaiici 
 did, and bad her from himfelf to tell 
 him, That had he rot pitcht upon his Honn^ 
 he had utterly been [foiled and crttjht So 
 that hereby was the old Proverb verified ^ 
 a Friend in Court is better than a Fenny in 
 the Piirfe : But as Friends goes now a Days, 
 I had rather feck for them In niy Purfe, 
 than in the Court, and I believe many 
 Courtiers are of my Mind. Again, to 
 teach every one to make much of, and 
 to keep Money, when he hath it let 
 him feriouQy think with himrdiVwhata 
 mifery it is, and how hard a matter to 
 borrow it. But of this, I have fpoken in 
 a former Chapter. 
 
 ill A Manthat wou'd always keepMo- 
 siey in his Pocket, muft not only be di* 
 ligent in getting it, and careful in keep.! 
 ing it, but alfo cautious in fpending it. 
 This Direftion pre-fuppofes that Money 
 muft be fpent •, for other wife of whatufe 
 is it ? A Man ca'n neither Eat it, nor 
 Diink it, nor will it keep him Warm; 
 Bnt herein confifts the Advantage of it, 
 that it will procure that which fliall do all 
 tiiefe ; That is to fay, it will buy Meat, 
 Drink, Cloaths, and whatever elfe we 
 liave a Mind .to ; And to purchafe what 
 is iicccffary for the inamtaining of our 
 Lives, 
 
Lives, and preferving of our Health?, and 
 Lie fupplying of cur Neccfilties,' is the 
 aic of Moneyabout which our Cauti¬ 
 on B'.ufr he eirploycd. And let me add 
 fo thefe, The prrtting of our Money out 
 to Ute alfb, according to our Abilities:;, 
 I mean the relieving oi the Poor there¬ 
 with-, (that is, thofe that are truly fo . 
 for 1 know not whether it be Charity to 
 relieve common Beggars) and ! am lure 
 that is the beft life we can put it to; foi 
 tlicreby we lend to the Lord ^ and there 
 li none-that can give us belter Cccurity, 
 nc: repays it with larger laterert. Mow 
 in all this laying out of our Money, there 
 inufi: be cmition us’d, if we wou’d always 
 keep'Money in our Pockets: And the 
 Cautions 1 will give fliall be thdir: 
 
 t. Let your Spending of Money be al¬ 
 ways in proportion to yi-ur Gctdng at 
 it • -or die it will bn impuffiMe alwrys to 
 keep Money in your Pcckci:; For i^vou get 
 but fdtecn Shillings per Week, anc ineud 
 Twenty, you run your felf each MMek five 
 Si:iiliDgsin Debt; and.that ia c litiic time 
 may run you into a Goal, and there yen 
 may lie and ftarve, and all for want oi 
 Care and Caution. But if, you get twen¬ 
 ty Shillings a Week, and ipead but Fif. 
 teen, you will then lay up i't'.'e Shillings 
 every Week, and need net borrow anv 
 
of Momy-Catchin^. " 
 your Pocket. So if you get bat Fifteen^ 
 fpend but Twelve • if but Twelve, fpend 
 but Nine : And fo whatever you get, be 
 it p^ore or lefs, let,what you Spend be but 
 fo mu.-’' lefs in Proportion than your Get¬ 
 tings, an ' vou may always keep Money 
 in your Pockets. 
 
 2 , Know always what thou haft, and 
 what thou art worth, and fee that thy Ser- 
 vants do not wafte it: For Servants are 
 great Deftroyers, if not well look’d after. 
 
 3. Take the following Caution of the 
 Ingenious R^.>/dulfh's ; 
 
 Spnic not^-nor fpend too much ; he this thy Cdre, 
 Sp/irc hut to Spend, and only Spetid to Spare: 
 
 Pf^oo Spends toe much, may re ant, and fo complain-, 
 But he Spends be!t, .that Spares to Spend again. 
 
 4 . If thou wilt always keep Money in 
 thy Pocket, and keep thy felf out of 
 Goal, beware of becoming Surety for the 
 payment of other Mens-Debts: Be not 
 wounded for other Mens Faults,nor fcour- 
 ged for other Mens Offences •, r by Sure- 
 
 tiOiip, Millions of Men have been Begge- 
 
 jed and Deftroyed; paying the unreafon- 
 ab!e Reckonings of other Mens Riots, and 
 ' charge of other Mens Folly and Prodigali¬ 
 ty ; if thou .fmart, fmart for thine own 
 Sins, and above all things, be not made 
 an Afs to carry theBurdens of other Men; 
 .If-aoy Friend dehre thee to be hb Surety - 
 
of Mom)-Cdtching. 8 f 
 give him a Part of what thou haft to {])are;lf 
 heprefs thee farther,he is not thy Friend at 
 all, for Friendfhip rather chufcth harm to 
 it felf, than OiTereth it: If thou be Bound 
 for a Stranger, thou art a Fool ^ if for a- 
 Merchant, thou putteft thy Eftate to learn 
 to Swim i if tor a Church-man, he hath 
 no Inheritance ^ if for a Lawyer, he will 
 find an Evalionby a Syllable or Word, to. 
 abufe thee ; if for a Poor Man, thou muft 
 pay it thy felf; if for a Rich Man, it need 
 not; Therefore from Saretiefhip, as from 
 a Man-flayer, or Enchanter, bkfs thy felfj 
 for the beft Profit and Return will be this, 
 that if thou force him for whom thou art 
 Bound, to pay it himfelf, he will become 
 thy Enemy; if thou ufe to pay it thy felf,. 
 thou wilt be a Beggar ; and believe thy 
 Father in this, and print it in thy thought, 
 that what Virtue foever thou haft, be it 
 never fo manifold, if thou be Poor witli- 
 al, thou and thy Qualities fiiall be defpi- 
 fed: Befidcs, Poverty is oft-times fent as. 
 a Gurfe of God ; it is a fliame amongft 
 Men, an imprifonmentof the Mind, vex^. 
 ation of every worthy Spirit; thou fhalt 
 neither help thy felf nor others^ thou^ 
 ihalt drown thee in all thy Virtues, ha-, 
 ving no Means to ftievv them, thou fhalt 
 be a burthen, and eye-fore to thy Friends, 
 ct/ery Man will fear thy Company, thoi^ 
 iiiait be driyepMely.to.Beg, and 
 
6 The Fleafm Art' 
 e^'j Oil others,' to litter unworthy Men, 
 ) make diflicnefc Shifts: And to conclude, 
 overtv nrovokes a Man to do infamous 
 id cetericd Deeds Let no V:;,.r;ty tliere- 
 ;r?,, or PciTwafiOii, draw chec to that 
 or; r of - world 1 7 Miferics- • 
 
 And here itwdii be proper eo'jugb, Le- 
 :’jA; it relates to the prei'enr LeOneis, to 
 s A' iJer the following Pkafant, 
 
 /' a fira^c bk-if that Sails by 
 
 Lrrd. as,'irsll as by Ssa : Her Nasne is 
 SuretV'Shin,- She is a great, hitid, anct to 
 var Erglijl) Money-Catclicrs. 
 
 ]p'di'^ is a Ship of great Antiquity, fhe 
 \ is tb'i only Merchant-Adventurer 
 nm run, for they that Sail in hei, 
 1 1 G )'''d- Lands, Money, Repu- 
 
 : i'-oends, Kindred, Credit, Liber- 
 . 1 , - • of all which Rich-Gomrao- 
 
 •■' s falwavs at her Returns) Ihe is fo 
 m' ; n i ^ ; makes one Gcal or 
 1 \ lO-houle, where it is more 
 
 ^ 1 e . r '1 dm her Lock and Key, than 
 : Golden Apples of the Hefperidcs were 
 1 e Diagon-, foe is fo cafie 
 , , ) 'Id'' ^ 1 Man need not trouble 
 
 I c' 'Ll c , or ufe any Boat to 
 r to her, ior -if all her Marriners 
 ,ij, CO to iiei Dv vVatcr, then were a 
 
g/ Monej-Cdtching. S 7 
 Water-maa the richeft: Trade belo'A' the_. 
 Moon'-, only a Dalh with a Pen, the wri¬ 
 ting of a Man’s Name, i.'afTiiig liis Word, 
 or Petting his Mark (though it be but the 
 form of a pair of Pot-hooks, a Ciofs, a 
 Crooked Billet, or a V V. for John Thorny- 
 fin any of Hide faeile- ways hath fnip’cP a 
 Man into the Snretic-Siiip, during his 
 Life 2nd his Heirs after him, and tliough ' 
 the Entrance into her iie To cafie, yet fhe 
 isfo full of Impertinent and needy Cour- 
 tcfie, that many Men' will lead a Hand 
 unto her, with mete fair Entreaties, Re- 
 quel]:s,and Ineitatioi!?, i nan are common¬ 
 ly ufed to a Mask a: the Court, or a 
 Grofs of GoDips in the Country, and be¬ 
 ing once Entred, a Een-penny-Nail dii- 
 veil to the Head, may as fion leap out 
 of an Oaken Foil,as a Maii ma7 get a {hoar 
 again : She is Fainted on the out-iidc with 
 Vows and Promifes, and within her arc 
 the Stories of the tatter’d Prodigal, Eat¬ 
 ing Husk with the Swine, the PiHure cf 
 Nhk^ with AkElo^ Tifiphons^ and Mcgc- 
 7ii. Dancing Lschrym&: Her Arms are a 
 Goore-Qjfdl,’or Pen., Conchantin Sheep¬ 
 skin Field Sable- the Motto, above J.'hvc- 
 ■ rint Vnlvcrfi the Supporters a Ufurer, and 
 a Scrivener, the CrePc an WvopoocL the 
 Mantles Red-Wax, with tlris oiher Mot¬ 
 to beneath, ScaPdruni Ddh-ud; TiiisSliip 
 bath the Art to make Pavchmeiii; the dear-. 
 
S The f leAfmt ‘ Art 
 
 eil ShifF ill the World : For I have feeu 
 a Piece Jittle bigger then my two Hands, 
 that hath colt a Man a Thoufand Pound ^ 
 I my velf paid a Hundred Pound once for 
 a fmail rotten Remnant of it. She is 
 Rig’d moll: ftrangely *, Her Ropes and Ca¬ 
 bles are Cor.ditiom and Qhligatms^]Atr An¬ 
 chor are Uafts Forfdtid^ Her L.ead and 
 Line are Adonangts^ Her Main-fails are 
 htcrchatiged'k hdcntnres^ and, Her Top- 
 fiils BiUs dx.(\ Bonds Small-Ihot, are 
 yh-r<fts and Jtlions^ Her Great Ordinance 
 are Lxtans^ Ont-kwries and Executions : 
 Ail lier Decks are ftuck vvith Temerhooh^ 
 to hold thole faft that enter Her, Her 
 Lading is Loeb^ Kejs^ Bolts^ Shackles^ Ma- 
 nacks^ Fateys, Grates^ Trap iox Vermin^ 
 Ginns for Wild-Gub^ Bates for Tame Fools^ 
 Sprkp for Woodcoch^ P nr ferns for Con- 
 To)’/j for Mad-Bucks^ Pens {ox Gecfe^ 
 Hcoh for Giidfms^ Snares for BuzsLards^ 
 Bribes for Qld-Jades^ Cnrhs for Colts^ Pit- 
 fds for Bdfinches^ and Hempen-fips for 
 JJfs • and befides all this, fie is plenti¬ 
 fully ftorecl with Want, Hunger, Cold^ 
 Poverty, and Nackednels. 
 
 The Ocean that file Sails in, is the fpa- 
 tioiis Mar Aral Sea •, fometimesfhe Anchors 
 at the 2f;?cl7,fometimes at theGnlpb 
 of tk-.G'atc-tmfey fometimesat the White- 
 Lion-Creehy fometimes at Litd^ate-Bay, 
 fotnetimes at Wood-Jireet-Harbour ^ and 
 •fo)i,ctimes at the PoHhrey-jHmn. Ther^ 
 
of Monej-f Atchmg, ' 8 ^": 
 
 There is great teafon to call a Man be¬ 
 ing Bound for another, Surme-SHIP ^ for 
 a S!':ip is an unruly Beaft, if flie be not 
 fiiiciy Tied, Moored,and Anchored, and 
 thei i.fore to be a Snntj is as much as to 
 (■ij fyc-fp-e^ the Addition of the Word 
 Ship, being a kind of Metaphorical Al- 
 liifioii, to the turbulent TolTing of the 
 Infortnnate Surety, upon the reftlefsWaves 
 and Billows of iv.iferabk Varieties and 
 Mutabilities of Time and Trouble. 
 
 And though fi.cth-SHJP be (for the 
 molt p rt) prejudicial and baneful only 
 to it felf, yet as in the Sea, the rifing of 
 one'Wave proceeds out of the fall of a- 
 notber ^ fo one out of the Ruins,of Sure-- 
 tie-SHlP Wrack, (like Beetles or Scarabs 
 which breed out of Dung) there do fpririg 
 a Swarm or Generation of Vertues (Vi¬ 
 pers I was about to fay) as bufie Solicimrs, 
 nimble-tongu’d Pittifo^igers, grezdy Serje¬ 
 ants^ hungry Teomn, devouring Catchples^ 
 boiftrous Bailiffs^ Mercilefs Marjhalls-Men, 
 Dogg'd Jay lor s, and currifh Vnderkeef^ 
 ers; For as a Butchers Trade is to Live 
 upon the Slaughter of Bealls; fo cannot 
 the Kennels, Litters, and Sties of thofc 
 above-named Jnthrojiofhagi or Camha's), 
 Live, Eat, or Subfill, but upon the Con- 
 fuficn of Men; and as a Horfe being dead 
 in the Fields and ftrip’d, is a Banquet for 
 Dogs, Hogs,, Ravens, Kites, and Crows; 
 
1 
 
 Qo The Pieafa^t Art 
 
 fj is a Siiret'Y to thofe Vermine, who de- 
 vciir r;:id Prey upon hisEdateand Carkafs, 
 bjili alivc and dead. ■ 
 
 But for Condufionofthis blunt Boint,l 
 think I have mlfraken all this while in cal- 
 ing it S«m«P-SH/P,forthe confeqiienceand 
 fuccefs of the Voyage wi!} iictter allow it 
 the Name of Sumk-SHrEF:. which is a 
 vrarning or document to T/c tk. SkepSure^ 
 which 1 imagine to be a (igniOcant Invcrfi^ 
 on of theWord,foi\as the Bridle and Har- 
 nefs of a Live-Horfe, is for the mod part 
 made of the Skin of a dead Borfe,fo he that 
 is Bound for another Man’s Debt, is like 
 a filly innocent Sheep, ( of which Flock I 
 may for my rank and calling be a Bell- 
 weather) with the Bond of a dead Sheeps- 
 s.kin, Tkd fnre^ as a fun Tic^ either to pay 
 the Debt, or fnrely he is fure to lie ( if 
 his Ability help, not) where I would be 
 loath to be his Bed-fellow. 
 
 The Ship> and Pinaces that are in the 
 Squadron with the Smik-SHIP^ are thefe, 
 vi'c, 
 
 1 . The Adventurous^ a defperatc hot 
 SHJP^ very hard to be‘guided cr,fleered 
 in any fteddy Courfe. 
 
 2 . The Kindkart, iSPlIP that will Sail 
 any whither, or to what Port a Man would 
 hive her. 
 
 3 . The 
 
. of Money‘Cetching. „ 91 
 
 3 . The Foo/, a SHIP of great burthen, 
 and for Sail and Steeiage, much like the 
 
 Kwdheart. 
 
 4 . The iVe^%ewe ,and Jgofey^ that 
 through want of good fore-fight, brought 
 the Siirctie-SHIP in great danger., 
 
 5 . The Decay^ a SHIP much broken. 
 
 6. The Scapethrlft^ a fmall ragged'Catch, 
 that hangs or depends upon the whole Rc- 
 gi.nent. 
 
 Chap. VIII. 
 
 How to pay Debts without Money. 
 
 I F you would really perform this plea- 
 fant Task, you mull, Firfi., fit your 
 felves with a publick Regifter of all your 
 Lands and Houfes, or of whatfoever elfe 
 you frand pofTeftof, thereby making them 
 ready Money at all times without the 
 charge of Law, or the neceflity of a Law¬ 
 yer, Semdly, This will be the better per¬ 
 formed, if you make all Cut-Rivers. Na¬ 
 vigable, where Art can poflibly efred it, 
 thereby making a Trade and Commerce 
 as c^jmmnnicable to all manner of Perfons 
 as ready Money. Thirdly^ This may be 
 perfoimed by aPublick Bank, the great 
 tiinews of Trade;, The Credit and Defign 
 r heieof, is to make Paper and all other 
 Cora- 
 
f 2 • The FleAfiijjt' Art - 1 
 
 Commodities vvhatfoever go in Trade 
 equal with ready Money^ yea., better fome 
 i\rAZ^X\'\‘i.x\. ready Money. Fonrthly^ ’Twill 
 be vequitite in order to perform this ufe« 
 fnl Task, to have a Court of Mcrch^ 
 ants and other confiderable Dealers to end 
 aH Differences that hath hitherto rifen, or 
 may for the future arife between-Tradef- 
 men. Now^ that all thefe things are veiy 
 feafible, is moft clear, for fever.ai Countries 
 efpecially in Holland at this pvTent time, 
 they will raife a Family fooncr with one 
 hundred Pounds a Year and drive a better 
 and more profitable Trade*, thamany Man 
 can do v/itha loool a Year in England] 
 But if we would atlaft but write by their 
 Copies, we lhall do the great things they 
 now do ; and I dare fay,out-do them too, 
 2. But if I make a Bargain at London for 
 fourthoufand Pounds worth of Goods for 
 fix Months, the next Difcourfe is what 
 fecurity ? Then the Buyer and the Seller 
 agree to meet at the Tavern at four of the 
 Clock in the Afternoon : There the Buyer 
 produceth his Security, many times not 
 approved of; fo the Merchant cannot put 
 off his Commodities, nor the Chapman 
 have the Goods he ftands in need of. But 
 if the Buyer or any Friends oLhis that 
 would Credit him, had Land under a Regi- 
 fter, then a. Ticket upon fuch Lands given 
 
of Momy-Catchwg. 
 to the Merchant, would be rqiial to him 
 as ready Monies; and I fay much better 
 
 too. 
 
 It is the common miftake of the World 
 
 who cry up the Diifch for a great Calh 
 ill Bank, it is not fo, it is a great mi- 
 fiake; for it is a Bank of Credit, and 
 Paper is in that Bank equal with Monies 
 the Anchorage, Fund, and Foundation 
 being laid fafe : And that-is the Lands 
 being under a Regifrer, from whence 
 ifiue thefe delightful Goldemftreams of 
 Banks, Lumber-Houfes, Honour, Hoitefty, 
 Pviches Strength and Trade. 
 
 1 will now {hew you the condition of 
 hdon, as at prefent it Hands, and how 
 it would have been, if the Houfes new 
 built, had been by Law to be Regifter’d 
 
 at Giiild‘ha!L 
 
 Admit therefore that the Green Dragon 
 [Ti’/ern in Fleet-firm were ihiire, and fet 
 st one hundred Pounds a Year, and I owe 
 iix kundted Pounds upon the Green-Pr.3- 
 p Tavern. 1 Ihew them the Purchafe 
 of the Ground, the Patent from the Judges 
 taken in, and all other Titles bought. I 
 prefume, I cannot have the fix hundred 
 Pounds upon iny Houfe^ but I muit give 
 [ireat Security for my Covenants. I pre¬ 
 pit fuch Security as I can get, which wdll 
 not be accepted. Now for want of this 
 
94 Ihe YleAjmt Art 
 Gx 'liindi'ed Pounds, on a fuddento pay my 
 Debts, I am undone, my Wife, Children, 
 and many more whom 1 owed Monies, 
 too-, my Goods feized, my'Houfetaken 
 from me, and it's pcflibk a Prifon too, 
 or a Statute of Dankrupt taken out, to. 
 the Ruin of all. 
 
 And if this had been done, I then go 
 to any Scrivener that deals that way, 
 and defire to borrow a thoufand Pounds cii 
 the Green Dragon Tavern in Flcct-firett, 
 being Rented one hundred Pounds a Year; 
 there will be then no more to be done, 
 but their Servant is knt to Gnild-hail^ to 
 feewhofe the Green Dragon Tavern is,and 
 he brings word it is mine : There is no 
 more ado, I fay, but the thoufand Pounds- 
 is told out, and 1 giv® Security for it 
 -by. a Mortgage, put into the Regifter of 
 my Houfe, Then I go and pay my Debts 
 to prevent Law-fuits, preferve my .Self, 
 Wife, Chilcfren, and Reputation ^ and all 
 is well : And that which-is beft of all, 
 the Party lending the Monies is fafe, well, 
 and fiirely feenred. It is pofiible great 
 part of the thoufand Pounds lent, might 
 be the Monies of poor Widows and Or¬ 
 phans. Plere are both to the Lender and 
 itervower great Advantages • To the one 
 there is undeniable Security, and to the 
 other, prefent Relief upon all Occafious 
 
Of mofiej-Larcfrwg, 
 
 The wanting whereof hath bf.cn the Ruia 
 of fome thoiifand Families fiiice tl;e Firifig 
 of Lonaon. And this is that which will 
 encreafe and enlivea Trade; and the Hoii- 
 fes Fvegifteved will be equal with read'/ 
 rvlonles at all Ti nes, according to the va¬ 
 lue of the Houles. And if this v;e Treat 
 on bad been done, there needed not one 
 Houfe to ftand empty and untenanted, 
 as now they do •, nor the Trade to depart 
 cut of the City as it hath dene lince the 
 Fire. 
 
 And now if thefe Heads that I have now 
 Treated on, do not convince my Readers, 
 that they may eafily (if they with diligence 
 mind their hits) pay their Debts without 
 Monies^ I have no more to fay at prefent., 
 but Iball hereafter convince them if it is 
 pofiible. 
 
 G II A p. IX. 
 
 How to Travel all England over without a 
 Farthing of Aiomj •, with an Account oj 
 t 'nofe that have tried the Experiment. 
 
 H e (hat undertakes this ftrangc Jour- 
 ney, lays bis firlt Plot how' to be 
 tinned into a hrAve whida he finds 
 can be done by none better than by a trufty 
 'Fa)}or ; working theiefore hard vritf 
 him till his Suit be eranied cut of the 
 
9^ TL Pieafdnt 'Art 
 City, being mounted on a good Gel¬ 
 ding, he rides' upon his own bare Cre-i 
 dit, not caring whether he travail to’ 
 meet the Sun at his riling, or at his go¬ 
 ing down ; He knows his Kitching 
 fiiokes in every Countrey, and his Ta¬ 
 ble is covered in every Shire ; for when 
 he comes within a mile of a Town, 
 where he means to catch Quailes, fet- 
 ting Spurs to his Horfe, away he gal- 
 •lops with his Cloak off (for in thefe be- 
 figeings of iowns he goes not armed 
 with any) his Hat thrull into his Hofe, 
 as if it were loft, and only an empty 
 pair of Houllters by his fide, to (hew 
 that he had been difarmed, And you 
 muftnote, that this HotTpur does never 
 fet upon any places but only fiich where he 
 knows (by intelligence) there areftoreof 
 Gentlemen, or wealthy Farmers at the 
 leaft, Amongft whom, when he is come, 
 he tells with diftrafted looks, and a voice 
 almoft breathkfs, how many Villains fet 
 upon him, what Gold and Silver they 
 took from him, what Woods they are fled 
 into, from what part of En^Und^ he is 
 come to what Place he is going, how far 
 he is from Home, how far from his jour- 
 nics end, or from any Gentleman of his 
 acqudiutance; and fo lively perfonates the 
 iyiag Greek Synon^ in telling a lamentable 
 Tale, that the mad Trcjm (the Gentle* 
 
Of Money-Catchhg’ 97 
 Gentlemen of the Town, believing him., 
 (and the rather because he carries the Shape 
 of an honeft Man in flieiv, and of a 
 Gentletnsn in his Apparel) are liberal of 
 theh Parfes, lending him Money to bear 
 him on liis Joarney 3 to pay which, he of¬ 
 fers cither his Bill or Bond (naming his 
 Lodging in London) 0; gives his Word, as 
 le is a Gendeman , which they rather 
 take, knowing the like Misfortune may be 
 theirs at any time. 
 
 And thus with the Feathers of other 
 Birds, is this Monfter Buck, making wings 
 of fundry faihions, with which he thus 
 bafdy flies over a whole Kingdom. Thus 
 loth he ride from Town to Tov/n, from 
 City to City, as if he were a Landlord in 
 every Shire, and that he were to gather 
 Rents up of none but Gentlemen. 
 
 There is a Twin-brother to this Falfe- 
 galloper, and he cheats Inn- keepers only, 
 or their Tapfters, by learning firft what 
 Country men they aie, and of what Kin- 
 [dred : and then bringing counterfeit Let¬ 
 ters of Commendations from fuch an Un- 
 |de, or fuch a Couiinj (wherein is re- 
 iqaeiled that the Bearer thereof may beufed 
 jkiiidly ) he lies in the Inn till he have 
 |fe(cht over the Mafrer or Servant for forae 
 oney, to draw whom, to him, he hath 
 pany Hooks-, and when they bang faft 
 E enough 
 
Of MoMy-Catching. 99 
 they wiil work Four and twenty Wonders', 
 end prom'iie to teach thofe that know no 
 more what belongs to an A than an Afs^ 
 to be able (in that narrow compafsj to 
 write as fair, and as faft, as a Countrey 
 Vicar, who commonly reads all the 
 Town’s Letters. 
 
 But wherefore do thefe counterfeit Ma¬ 
 ilers of that noble Science of JVnting^ keep 
 luch a flouriiliing with the borrowed Wea- 
 
 I pons of other Men’s Pens, only for this, 
 to get half the Birds (which they ftiive to 
 catch) into their Hands, that is to fay, to 
 be paid half the Money, which is agreed 
 upon for the Scholar, and his Neft being 
 half fill’d with fuch Goldfinches, he never 
 fiaies till the reft be hedge, but (iifters him 
 that comes next, to beat the Bulh for the 
 other half At this Career, the Rjder that 
 fet out laft from flopp’d: and 
 
 alighting from Facolct, (the Horfe that car¬ 
 ried him) his next Joutney was made on 
 foot. 
 
 I come next to fhew the Way how to 
 Iturn a Penny. 
 
 Ea 
 
 rki 
 
of Money-^icUng. “'i" 6 ?v, 
 
 anil cowfafiy nothing hots at all, 
 
 Unkfs the Dew upon.the Tilths do fall:. 
 
 So lahtir fillj Shepherds vshat vie can, 
 
 All's mikfs a Bkjfn^ dmfm Paili 
 
 And indeed, uniefs we are under the In- 
 duencsof a Bleffing from Heaven, all our' 
 own. Endeavours, how ftrenuous foever 
 they may be, will never make us thrive: 
 For, as the Royal Pfaimift has excellently 
 told us. Except the Lord build the Hctife, they 
 labour in 'vain that htnld it except the Lord 
 keep the dtp, the Watchman tvaketh but in ■ 
 •vain. So it is in this Cafe, Except the 
 Lord give a Bleffing to our Endeavours, 
 we labour but in the Fire, and iliaU pro¬ 
 duce, nothing but Vanity and Vexation of 
 Spirit, by all our Toil and Labour. And 
 that we may have the Bleffing of God on 
 our Endeavours, we muft glorifie Him in . 
 all that we do, and with all that we have; 
 and in fo doing, we fliall put our felves 
 under his Protedion, and confequently 
 m.ay exped his Dleffing; and the Wife 
 Man tells us, Prov. lo, 22. 2 he Blelfmg of 
 the Lord maketh rich., and he adds no forroiv 
 with it. 
 
 In the Profecution therefore of this Art 
 of Thriving, I ffiall (hew who they are that 
 can have no Pro!ped-of Thriving; and 
 E g ‘ then 
 
.101 The Tkafant Art 
 fhen lay down foine ftnted and preliml- 
 ?^a^y Rules in Verfe, which all thofe that 
 deiire to thrive, mufi suide themfelves by ^ 
 and ihen dcfcend to Particulars, and ihe'w 
 thofe that wou’d thrive, how to turn the 
 7tr,ny. and nianags all their Matters to the 
 belt Advantage j and then lay down a 
 Specimen of cheap Houfe-keeping; by 
 cbisrving v/iiich, all thofe that wiip may 
 
 ciii their Coai5 according to thdr Cloth; 
 
 and if they get but little, may yet (pend 
 kfs/and five foraething. 
 
 Some Piort and brief DefcripUons of Perfons 
 that will never Thrive j at leafi^ not while 
 they continue [itch. 
 
 I. ry^Ime and Opportunity is the chief 
 X Thing to be regarded in all Bufi* 
 nefs, for Time and Tide ft^p for no Man j 
 and thofe that don’t obferve it, (hall never 
 thrive. 
 
 2. For a Man to be always piindfual to 
 his Word^ gives him a great Reputation ^ 
 and is of that Confequence in ail our A(- 
 fiirs, that they that liuve no regard to itj 
 can never thrive. 
 
 3. Tliofecan never thrive^ whofe Minds 
 arealway fliidluating and inconftanr^ and 
 jye never (ledfaft to their llefolutions. 
 
 ■4. Thofe 
 
of Money^Catchhg. lof'- 
 4 Thofe w!'o fiiccumb under;, and are 
 co>^/d down by their Misfortunesj and 
 have r:oL- prefbnce of Mind enough to en¬ 
 counter with Dliappointment-', and are 
 prerend}' Pncck’d at the Meeting with any 
 thing that crolfes their Dehgns, can never 
 thrive 
 
 One that is too eafie and credulous, 
 and ready to be drawn to any Thing by 
 £lil’ Wot'Js, without confjdeilng the Im¬ 
 portance oi what he’s a doing, may quick-" 
 ly do that which will ruin his Family^ and 
 conlequently can never thrive. 
 
 6 . They will not thrive, who are not 
 watchful over their Pockes 3 as to little 
 Expences: For, as the Proverb tells us, 
 Maty Littles makes a Mickle : And he that 
 has no regard to a little, may' foon iofe a 
 great deal. 
 
 7. Thofe will hardly ever thrive, fo as 
 to be worth much, who never take and 
 keep an exadl Account of what they (pend. 
 
 8. It is impoffibk that thofe Ihoii’d 
 thrive, who every day fpend more than ^ 
 they get; for they mull needs run in L'ebt,.. 
 and lo are never out of Danger of being, 
 ruin’d. 
 
 9. Thofe to be fure can never thrive, 
 but are in the high Road to Ruin, who 
 negledl their Shops, Trades, and Bufinefs, 
 Day after Day, Week after Vf eek, and lie 
 
 E 4 all 
 
104 The Fkafcint Art 
 
 s.’:i that while drinking and fpcnding their 
 
 'IiuiQ and Money at the Tavern. 
 
 -to. Thofe can never Thrive, who are 
 given to Gaming, efpsciaily where it isim- 
 c derate ; for iiich Men many times will 
 i .ward an Efb.te upon one Throw. 
 
 : i. Thofe can never, Thrive that have 
 no regard to their Promifes: 'T’is far 
 better not to piomife, than to promife 
 and not perform. And yet thofe are moft 
 ready to make promifes, that make leaft 
 Confcicence of performing them. 
 
 7 2. They can never Thrive, that make 
 a common Praftice of Swearing, and ta¬ 
 king the Holy Name of God in vain j for 
 jiich God will not hold ^uiklefs : And how 
 then can they Thrive? 
 
 13. Thofe can never Thrive, that keep 
 Company with lewd and whorlfli Wo¬ 
 men j for fach will bring a Man to a piece 
 of Bread : And Solomon^ (who had as 
 much Experience of’em, as moft Men 
 in the World) cells us, That a wkrip] Wo~ 
 ‘man is a deep Ditch ; nnd thofe that are oh- 
 Urred of the Lord, (kalifill therein, 
 
 ' Laftiy, Thole Men will never Thrive 
 in wlTac they undertake, that undertake 
 more than they are able to manage: And 
 ihi > hasbeenthe Ruin of many an honeft 
 ^..cho’ not wife) Man, whoundei taking too 
 rouch, has thereby loP all. 
 
 Ewdhnt 
 
of Money'Catching. • 
 
 Excellent Rules of Thriving,' 
 m Verfe. 
 
 pL y Idlenefs, which yet thou canft not fly, 
 By di'efling, miftrefTing, and complement: 
 If thole take up thy Day, the Sun will cry 
 Againft thee, for his light only was lent. 
 
 God gave thy Soul brave Wings, put not ihofe 
 -Into a Bed to fleep out all ill weathers. (Feathers 
 
 Art thou a Magiftrate? Then be fevere: 
 
 If Studious,Copy fair what Time hath blurr’d; 
 Pvedeem Truth from liis Jaws; If Soldier, 
 
 Chafe braveEmployments with a NakedSword 
 Thro'-outtheWorld Tool not? for allmayhave, 
 if they dare try, a glorious Life or Grave, 
 
 3- 
 
 When thou doft purpofe ought within thypower, 
 Be lure to do it, though it be but fmall, 
 Conftancy knits the Bones, and makes us ftowre, 
 When wanton Plealures beckon us to thrall; 
 Who breaks his own Bond, forfeitethdiimfelf. 
 What Nature made a Ship, he makes a Shelf. 
 
 4- 
 
 Do all things like a Man, not fneakingly, 
 
 Think the King fees thee ftill, for his King does 5 
 'iimp’ring is but a lay Kypocrily ; 
 
 Give ka corner and the Clue undoes; 
 
 E 5 
 
 Who 
 
106 The Pkafant An 
 
 Wlio fears to do ill, (ets hiinfclf to task: 
 
 Who fears to do well, fiire fhould wear a Mask, 
 
 ?« 
 
 Slight diofe that fay, amidil: their fickly healths 
 Thou lived by Rule; what doth not fo,but Man ? 
 Houles are built by Rule, and Common-wealths: 
 Entice the triifty Sun, if that you can, 
 
 From his Ecliptick Line; Beckon the Sky; 
 Wholivssby Rule then, keeps good Company, 
 
 Who keeps no guard uponbimfelf, is flack, 
 
 And rots to any thing at the next great thaw; 
 Man'is a Shop of Rules, a well trufs'd Pack : 
 
 Whale every Parcel under writes a Law'. 
 Lcole not thy felt, nor give thy Humour way, 
 God gave them to thee under Lock and Key. 
 
 7- 
 
 Be thrifty, but not covetous; therefore give 
 Thy Need, thine Honour, and thy Friend his 
 Never yp.is Scraper brave Man . Get to live, (due; 
 
 Then live and ufe it; elfe it is not true 
 That thou haft gotten .• Surely life alone 
 Makes Money not a contemptible Stone. 
 
 Never exceed thy Income: Youth may make 
 Even with the Year; but Age, if it will hit, 
 -Shoots a bow fliorc, and leffens ftill his State, 
 
 As the Day leffens, and his Life with it. 
 
 Thy Children, Kindred, Friends, upon thee call j 
 Before thy Journey, fairly part with all. 
 
 9. By I 
 
ef^Mbney-Qat clung. 107 - 
 
 By no means run in Debt', take thyownmeafure: 
 
 Wiio cannot live on Twenty Pound a Yeatj 
 Cannot on Forty ; he's a Man of Pleafure, 
 
 A itind of thing that's for it felf too dear. 
 The curious'C'’/2r^nj7 makes hisCloaths too wide, 
 And fpans himfelf, but would his Taylor chide, 
 
 10. 
 
 Spend not on hopes 5 they that by pleadingCIoaths 
 Do fortunes feek, when worth and fervice fail, 
 Would have their Tales believed for their Oaths, 
 And are like empty Veffels under fail 
 Old Courtiers know tins: therefore fet out fo, 
 As all Day long thou may’ll: hold out to go. 
 
 11. 
 
 In CloathSjCheapHandfoninefs doth bear theBellj, 
 Wifdom’s aTrimmer- thing than Shop e’er gave: 
 Say not then, This with that Lace will do well; 
 But,This, with my Difcretion, will be brave; 
 Much Curioufnefs is a perpetual wooing, 
 Nothing with labour; Folly long a doing. 
 
 12. 
 
 Play not fo^ain, but fport; who playsfor more 
 Than he cfn lofe with pleafure,(takes his Heart, 
 Perhaps his Wives too, and whom (he hathborej 
 Servants and Churches alfo play their part,. 
 Only a Herauld who that way doth pafs, (Glafsi 
 Finds his crack'd Name at length in the Church 
 
The F leaf ant Art 
 
 iOS 
 
 13 * 
 
 if yet thou love Games at fo dear a rate, 
 
 Learn this, that hath oldGamellers dearly cod; 
 JJoil Iore?Ri[e up: Do’ft win i B.ife in that date: 
 Who drive to fitoutlofing Hands, are loft : 
 Game is a civil Gun-Powder in Peace, 
 
 Blowing up Houfes with their whole increafe. 
 
 14. 
 
 vV holly abftain or wed: Thy bounteous Lord 
 Allows thee choice of Paths, take no bye-ways, 
 But gladly welcome what he doth aff'ord; (ftays. 
 Not grudging that thy Lull hath bounds and 
 Continence hath its'Joy: Weigh both, and fo 
 if PvOttenneft have more, let Heaven go. 
 
 15. (tame, 
 Drink not the third Glafs, which thou canft not 
 
 When once it is within thee; but before 
 May’ll rule it as thou lift, and pour the lharae 
 Which it would pour on thee, upon the 600L 
 It is mod juft to throw that on the Ground, 
 Which woud throw me there, if I keep the 
 (Round. 
 
 16. 
 
 He that is drunken, may his Mother 
 Big with his Sifter V he hath loft the Reins, 
 
 Is out-law’d by himlHf 5 all kind of ill 
 Doth with his Liquor Aide into his Veins. 
 The drunkard forfeits Man, and doth dived 
 All worldly right, fave what he hath by Bead. 
 
 17. Shall 
 
of Money- Catching. ^ 
 
 17 ' 
 
 Shall I, to pleafe another’s Wine-fprung Mind, 
 Lofe all mine own ? God hath gi v n me a Mea- 
 Short of his Can and Body: Mult I find (fure, 
 A Pain in that wherein hefinds a PleafureS 
 Stay at the third Glafs: If thou lofe thy hold, 
 Then thou art mcdeft, and the Wine grows bold. 
 
 If Reafoii move not, bravely quit the Room} 
 All in a Shipwrack ihift their feveral way: 
 Let not a common ruin thee i.itomb ; 
 
 Be not a Beaft in courtefie; but ftay. 
 
 Stay at the third Glafs, or forego the place ;• 
 Wine above all things doth God’s Stamp deface, 
 
 i 9 > (vain: 
 
 Take not his Name, who made thy Mouth, in 
 It gets thee nothing, and hath no Escufe: 
 Luft and Wine plead a Pieafure 5 Avarice Gain; 
 
 But the cheap Swearer, thro’ his open Sluce 
 Lets his Soul run for nought, as little fearing; 
 Were I an Epicure, I cou d bate Swearing. 
 
 20. 
 
 Lye not; but let thy heart be true to God, 
 Thy Mouth to it, thy Actions to them both. 
 Cowards tell Lies, and thofe that fear the Rod, 
 The ftormy working Soul, fpits lies and froth: 
 Dare to be true; nothing can need a Lie, 
 
 A fault which needs it moft, grows two thereby, 
 
 21. Be 
 
The Pleafant Art 
 
 21 . 
 
 Be fweei to all; Is thy Complexion fowre ? 
 Then keep fuchCompany,make them thyAlIay ^ 
 Get a Iharp VVife, a servant that will low’r: 
 AStumbler ftiimbles leaft in rugged way. 
 Command thy felf in chief; helifes war knows. 
 Whom all his Paffions fellow as he goes. 
 
 22 . 
 
 Catch not at Quarrels; He that dares not fpeak 
 Plainly and home, is Coward of the two: 
 Think not thy Fame at every twitch fhall break, 
 By great Deeds Ihsw that thou canft little do, 
 And do them not; that Ihall thy wifdom be, 
 And change thy Temperance into bravery. 
 
 2 ?. 
 
 If that thy Fame vidth ev’ry Toy be pos’d, 
 
 Tis a thin Web which pois nous Fancies make: 
 But the great Soldier’s Honour was compos’d 
 Of thicker Stuff, which wou’d endure a Shake. 
 Wifdom picks Friends,Civility plays the reft, 
 
 A Toy fhunn’d clearly, pafleth with the beft. 
 
 24. ■ 
 
 Towards great Perfons ufe refpeftive boldnefs, 
 That temper gives them theirs,and yet doth take 
 Nothing from them, in fervice, care or coldnefs. 
 Doth capably thy Fortusies mar or make; 
 
 Feed no Man in bis Sins; For Adulation 
 
 Makes thee a parcel-Devil in Damnation. 
 
 25. Envy 
 
of' Momy Catching. 11 
 
 Envy not gteatnefs: For thou mak’ft thereby 
 Thy felf the worle, and fo the difhnce greater. 
 Be not thine own VVorm; yetfucb Jealoufie 
 As hurts not others, but may make thee better, 
 Is a good fpur; Correct thy Padions Tpight, 
 Then may the Beads draw thee to happy light. 
 
 Thy Friend put in thy Bofom \ wear his Eyes, 
 Still in thy Heart, that he may fee what’s there 
 If caufe require, thou art his Sacrifice ; 
 
 Thy Drops of Blood mull pay down all his fe&r; 
 But Love is loft; the way of Friendihip’s gone; 
 Tho’ havU had ):nsJomthan^ CHRIST bis John, 
 
 27. 
 
 Yet be not Surety, if thou be a Father; 
 
 Love is a perfonal Debt •. I cannot give 
 My Childrens right; nor ought he take it; rather 
 BothFriendslhould diefthan hinderthem to live. 
 Fathers firft enter Bonds to Nature’s ends, 
 
 And are her Sureties, e’er they area Friends^ 
 
 28. 
 
 Calmnefs is great Advantage; he that lets 
 Another Chafe, may warm him at his Fire.; 
 Mark all his Wandrings, and enjoy his Frets, 
 
 As cunning Fencers luffer Heat to Tire, 
 Truth dwells not In the Clouds: the Bow that’s 
 Doth often Aim ar, never hit the Sphere, (there 
 
Ill 
 
 the Vkafant Art 
 
 29. 
 
 Mark what another fays; for many are 
 Full of themferves, and anfwer their own No- 
 Take all into thee, then with equal Care, (tion, 
 Ballance each Dram of Reafon like a Potion. 
 T Truth be with thy Friend, be with em both, 
 Share in the Conqueft, and confefs aTroth. 
 
 30. 
 
 Be ufeful where thou lived:, that they may 
 Both want and wilh thy pleahng Prefence dill; 
 Klndnefs, good Parts, great Places, are the way 
 To compafs this; Find out Mens v.'ants and will, 
 And meet them there; all worldly Joys arelefs 
 Than that one Joy of doing Kindneffes. 
 
 31 * 
 
 Pitch thy Behaviour low, thy Progrefs high, 
 So fhalt thou Humble, and Magnanimous be, 
 Sink not in fpirit; who aimeth at the Sky, 
 Shoo^higher far than he that means a Tree. 
 A Grain of Glory mixt with Humblenefs, 
 Cures both aFeaver and Lethargicknefs. 
 
 32. 
 
 Let thy mind dill be bent, dill plotting where, 
 And when, and how thybufinefs maybe done, 
 Slacknefs breeds Worms; but the fure Traveller 
 Though he alight fometimes, dill goeth on. 
 Aftive and dirring Spirits live alone, 
 
 Write on the others, Here lies fuch a one. 
 
 33. Slight 
 

 of Money-QatcUng. 113 
 
 33 - 
 
 Slight not the fmalleft Lofs, whether it be 
 lii Love cr Honour; take account of all.’ 
 Shine like the Sun in ev'ry Corner: See 
 Whether thy Stock of Credit rife or fall. 
 
 Who fay, I care nor, thofe 1 give for loftj 
 And to inftru 61 them, ‘twill not quit thecoR, 
 
 31 - 
 
 Scorn no Mans love, though of a mean degree; 
 
 Love is a prefent for a mighty King. 
 
 Much lefs make any one thine Enemy ; 
 
 As Guns delfroy, fo may a little thing. 
 
 The cunni-g Workman never doth refufe 
 The meaneil; Tool that he may chance to ufe. 
 
 35 * 
 
 All Foreign Wifdom doth amount to this, 
 
 To take whatever’s given; whether Wealth 
 Or Love, or Language, nothing comes amifs; 
 
 A good digeftlon turneth all to health. 
 
 And then our fair Behaviour eas'ly may 
 Strike off all Scores, none are fo clear they. 
 
 36. 
 
 Aife6t in things about thee Cleanlinefs, 
 
 I That all may gladly board thee as a flower 3 
 Slovens take up their ftock of noyfomnefs 
 Before-hand, and anticipate the hft Hour." 
 Let thy Mind’s fweetnefs have its operation, 
 Upon thy Body, Cloaths, arid Habitation. 
 
 37. In 
 
The T leaf ant AH 
 
 i I A 
 
 37- 
 
 In AiiTiS regard thy means, and others merit, 
 Tnink Heaven a better bargain, than to give 
 Only the fingle Market-penny for it, 
 
 Join iaands with God to make a Man to live. 
 Give to all feraething; to a good poor Man, 
 Till thou change Names, and be what he began. 
 
 The Way to make thee thrive, is firft to fill 
 Thy Mind with Reft, before thy Trunk with 
 (Riches ; 
 
 For Wealth without Contentment climbs a Hill 
 To feel thole Tempefts which flyover Ditches, 
 Then if thou can ft but make Ten Pounds thy 
 (meafure, 
 
 All which thou addeft maybe ail’d thyTreafure. 
 
 39- 
 
 Sum up at Night what thou haft done by day; 
 And in the Morning, w’hat thou haft to do ; 
 Drefs and undrefs thy Soul; Mark the decay 
 And growth of it; if with thy Watch, that too 
 Be down, then wind up both; fince we fhall be 
 Moftfurely judg’d, make thy Accounts agree. 
 
 in brief, acquit thee bravely, play the Man, 
 Look not on pleafurss as they come, but go; 
 Defer not the leaft Vertue; Lifes poor fpan 
 Make not an Eli by trifling in thy Woe; 
 
 If thou do ill, the joy fades; not the Pains; 
 
 If well, the Pain doth fade, the Joy remains. 
 
 tk 
 
cf looney-Catching. 
 
 IIS' 
 
 7 h Art of Thriving; or^ the fare 
 andfpeedy my to Treferment. 
 
 IF thou wouldeft in a little time arrive to 
 Worldly Preferment, be very indudri- 
 ous in thy Calling, be whac'it will; That 
 which is by Sparing laved, may be with 
 Diligence improved; and what is foim¬ 
 proved, be again fpared. For Frugality 
 alone is but tingle getting; but joyned 
 with Induftry is double; like thofe Eesms 
 of theSun, which by a rspercuffion from 
 the Earth, make that heat not to be endu¬ 
 red, which would be hardly warmth other- 
 wife. And there, where much cannot be 
 done at once, Diligence elfecds it by De¬ 
 grees, producing by a frequent repetition 
 as great an heat, as mere vaft abilities, 
 but lefs atdive. And it hath been obferv^d, 
 that it is not lels gainful to Navigate in a 
 fmall Veffel, which makes quick and fre¬ 
 quent Pveturns, than in that which returns 
 but feldom, though deeply laden. There- 
 h.re the Wife Solomcn direct' the Sluggard 
 to go to the Bse and Ant; which infirm 
 Lreatures plainly drew how much the 
 afliduity of an indullrious Labour can 
 And verily ’tis an ill Humour, 
 vhen becaufe our means fuit not with our 
 1 ends. 
 
116 the Tieafant Art 
 ends, v;e 'vvlli not purfae thofe ends which 
 fuit oui' means ^ and becaufe we can¬ 
 not do what we will, we will not do what 
 we can , depriving our felyes of what is 
 within our power, becaufe we cannot do 
 the things ibat are above our power; when 
 indeed, chat’s the way to do much more 
 dian -we can, by doing the many littles 
 that we a'-e able. 
 
 And this induhry truly elFeds things 
 beyond our expsdations, when we are 
 not difcouraged by difficulties, but incited j 
 and throw not up the bufinefs as defperate, 
 becaufe not prefently pervious, and to be 
 waded thorow. And let me tell you, of 
 all Tempers there is none more to be avoi¬ 
 ded than theirs, the edge of whofe Adli-, 
 vity is foon abated j for they vilely defpond 
 at thole things as impoffible, which a 
 more tough diligence doth eafily fuperate. 
 For which caufe, when the Fliftorian had 
 reckoned up the many difficulties and dan¬ 
 gers which CofmHs the firfi Duke of Etrunal 
 had to conflid with in his Infant Govern-| 
 menf, He. concludes vvith this Epiphonm-t, 
 Hac om'Aia aUae.in mapupabilia Ccfnius yr- 
 ti ntia & -mhyfria fua facile vich. ‘.And 
 verily ’tis no wile the part of a Man, fic. 
 ctmhere dtfficultanbiis ; and like Ijjachar, lie 
 down under his Burden, and give up the 
 Set becaufe the Cards prove crols; but b| 
 a gene 
 
»f Money-Cakhkg. nj 
 a generous antifcrijtafis, be hotteft in- our 
 Piofecutions, when the coldeft Air b'ows 
 on our Defignsi and like true Spur-Nags, 
 (mniti clivo, Tirain hardeli sgainft the Hill; 
 or like Thunder, tear it there molt, where 
 we meet the ibrdieft and mol!- rugged 
 Oak, You need never fear, but even the 
 talleft Cedar will fall at your Foot, to 
 whole Root you applied moil inceffant 
 Strokes. On which Coniideration I was 
 much taken with his Device, who plac’d 
 for his Imprcls a pair of Compaffes, w-ith 
 Vv'ith this Motto, Ccvfiar.tm & Irihon ; the 
 one Foot being fird, the other in Motion. 
 
 Then again, if you would grow rich, 
 be net given to Law 5 for the quarrelling 
 Dog hath a tatter’d Skin 5 and Men of 
 Strife, like too iharp a Sword, cut their 
 own Scabbard. And truly, what our 
 Lord faith, is prudently prat^licable: He 
 that jiiith thee at LatP ftr tk/ Cloak ^ let him 
 take thy Coat alfo : For it is much better to 
 lit down with fome manifefl; Lois, than to 
 recover thy Right by a Trial at law: 
 For, not tofpeakany thitigof the Vexa¬ 
 tion and Trouble vyhich the Plantiif l};ares 
 
 in, as well as he that defends, unlefs the 
 Matter be of very great Momentj Vis the 
 Law'yer alone goes away with the Gain. 
 Hence it is that there are very few who 
 fweat it out in a Couifs of Law, but like 
 over- 
 
! i8 T/;^ Fkafant Art ^ 
 over--ridden Nags they melt their Greafe/o 
 that their Hair flares, and they are pidful- 
 iy Fride-boand ever after. Eelides, if thou 
 meeteft with a A 4 an of mettle, thou mayft 
 begin Strii'e, but knovvefi not what lhail be 
 the end thereof; For a Wager at Law is 
 like a Garneatt Chefs, which fome report 
 to have lafted between Two skilful Game- 
 ilers above Twenty Years ^ and may hold 
 out as long, as the Brewer (aid to his Ad- 
 veifary, .as the Water runs under London- 
 Brulge. So that like tire Circulation of 
 the Blood, (which is puls’d from the Veins 
 to the Arteries, and from them again to 
 the Veins) the Lawyers have a way to 
 bring your Caufe from Common Law to 
 Equity, and thence back again, as we may 
 fay, Arteria Venofa^ and Vena Jrteriofa^ and 
 end your Bufinels without end; for if your 
 Money will but hold out, your Caufe (hall 
 go round like the Orbs above. But if thou 
 art concern’d with thofe that will quawel, 
 and an amicableCompofure cannot be had, 
 thenlay thy felf tot with the utmoft might: 
 For as the Hiftorian oblerves of the War 
 of Henry the Second of France, with Philif 
 of S^asn, Spes nunquam major affalget Pads, 
 q;:a?n fcrio Bellum gtritur ^ for the way to 
 agree, is to fight to purpofe. And War is 
 never fooner brought to Bed of her Daugh¬ 
 ter Peace, than when her travelling Pains 
 !ars fharpefl, - But 
 
110 I he Tleajdnf 
 fcai'a you will prove Rickety, and your 
 Head may grow too big to come out of 
 your own Doors. Belides, confider the 
 rnoli unkind profped of thofe a Man owes 
 Money to, and the Plague that is to be in 
 the Ufurer’s Books, who like the Woolf in 
 the Brealt, eats up Men alive •, and fupply 
 you with warm Clothes, till like a Pound 
 of Butter in a hot Cake, you melt all your 
 Subhance into their Hands: And fliall 
 never leave you while there is any thing to 
 be got of you, but (hall hang you up even 
 when you are dead • and will make Poilbn 
 of the froth of your A/[outh, and Adiim- 
 my of your Carcafs. 
 
 And now let mo tell you, Tliere’s no 
 one Thing deferves the Care of a young 
 Beginner more than his Servants ,• who if 
 they be beaten to the World, and know 
 kr w CO do any thing, they’re cunning 
 nough to abufe and cheat you: Their Op 
 portunities too being fuch as are hard to 
 avoid. Let me therefore in this particular 
 give you fbmething of Advice: For he 
 that hath one Servant, hath Two, and he 
 that hath Three, hath none at all. 
 
 I. Be (ure never-to tru{i.any of them 
 that have a colloguing, fawning way ^ for 
 they are Perfons, whom Nature hath as iti 
 were, cut out for deceit, and not only 
 fitted with Habiliaments, but alfo anatura 
 prompt 
 
Ofmonej-Catmng. iit 
 
 promptnefs thereto : and if I may tell 
 my own Experience, I remember not, that 
 ever I had to do with any of them, which 
 proved otherwife. And they are gene¬ 
 rally of that Impudence, that like "thofe 
 j at Cape Bon Speranz, they’ll pick youc 
 Pocket, and look in your Pace, pretend¬ 
 ing always moft what they intend leaft. 
 And therefore there is efpecial need of 
 your Caution in thofe very Things which 
 they profefs molt againft; they being 
 generally, like her who made World be¬ 
 lieve Ihe could endure no Eggs, till it was 
 found that her ulual Breakfaft was a groats*, 
 worth. 
 
 2. Never make your felt over familiar 
 with your Servants, nor take them for 
 your Play-fellows ; for Familirnty kgets 
 Contempt, and Contempt breaks the neck 
 of Obedience: It being very rare that 
 jthofeServants are ready to obey,that are not 
 kept in awe ^ but will be rather difpucing 
 lyour Commands, than doing them; which 
 beware you admit not; It being better ire 
 many refpeds, to err in commanding 
 v/hat is not convenient, than to amend it 
 upon the Advice of an ordinary Servant \ 
 they being encouraged, by fuch a Conde- 
 fcention, to argue with you the Expedi- 
 R ency 
 
11% The Tleafant'Art, 
 ency of your Commands ever after; and 
 upon that Account, to ufe fuch Language 
 as is not to be endured, which to remedy, 
 when got to an Head, you’ll be neceHita- 
 ted to ufe flich flrarp Corrolives, as may a- 
 gainft your Mind, (if for your turn) part 
 you and your Patient. 
 
 Having given the aforefaid Directions, j 
 it will now be time to /hew how to Turn 
 the Venn], 
 
 Dtrellms for thofe that woud Thrive^ 
 jhewing how they may turn a ?enny 
 to their heji Advantage. 
 
 M y Firfl Direcftion lhall be, That all 
 liich Peifons as defign to thrive in 
 the World, fhould always take care not to 
 ipend a Penny idly; for that they there* 
 by maypurchafe a Yard fquare (or Three 
 Foot) ot as good Land as moft is in Eng¬ 
 land : This, how improbable foever it 
 may feeni, is an undoubted Truth, as will 
 appear by th« following Demonftration. 
 
 Sixteen Foot and an half make one 
 
 Rod, 
 
 2. Forty fjch Rods in length (that is 
 660 Foot) and Four fuch Rods in breadth,. 
 
 (that 
 
of Mpne^'Chtchifig, ■ , 
 
 [(that is 66 Foot) makes an Acre of 
 [Land. 
 
 3 Now multiply 660 Footj (the length 
 
 I of an Acre) by 66 Foot, (the breadth of 
 an Acre) and the Produft will be 
 Iquare Feet, and lo many an Acre con¬ 
 tains. 
 
 4, Land that will let at 20 s. an Acre, 
 
 I pr Anmm^ is counted as good as moft in 
 Engkfid ; an Acre of which, if fold at 20 
 Years Purcliafe, (which is the ufual high- 
 eft Rate) may be bought for 20 /. that is 
 jfor 4SC0 Pence. 
 
 jj. Now if you divide 43 (;6o (thenum- 
 
 i berof Square Feet in an Acre) by 4800 
 (the number of Pence for which an Acre 
 maybe purchas’d) the Quotient, or Pro- 
 Idud thereof, is 9, and 360 remaining: 
 [Which Oiews that every Penny does pur- 
 hale Nine fquare Feet, (that is, Three 
 jFoot long, and Three broad) of fuch good 
 Landj and fomewhat above, which is 
 What was to be demonftrated: And con¬ 
 sequently it follows, That for eveiy Two 
 ^hillings you may purchafe 216 Square 
 Feet; that is, a Piece of Grouqd of Eigh- 
 leen Foot long, and Twelve Foot broad; 
 Which is enough to build a little Houfe 
 bon, or make a little Garden; which 
 
 peinp well nIafifeH 
 
U4 The Pleafant Art 
 every Year make a Man biufh, to think he 
 Jhou’d lofe fach a brave Convenlency, 
 meerly for drinking an unneceffary Quart 
 of adulterated Sack, or Two Bottles of 
 fiumm’d Glarret 3 which perhaps impairs 
 bis Health befides, and expofes him as a 
 drunken Beaft, to the Reproach of Hu¬ 
 mane Nature; when he has fo fair a way 
 to turn thofe idle fpent Pence to his great 
 Advantage. «■— But if a Man has no 
 mind to purchafe Land with his Penny, 
 he may turn it feveral other ways, as for 
 Inftance: 
 
 If you are minded to buy as many fe- 
 veral forts of Commodities for your Mo¬ 
 ney as you can; in Holland you may buy 
 Six feveral Things, viz,. Oatmeal, Onions, 
 a little Cake, Grapes, Vinegar, and Nuts, 
 and all for a Penny. 
 
 If .you love Annifeed Water or Brandy 
 and are minded to turn your Penny thai 
 ways, you may buy enough with it, t( 
 lave your Life, as it may fall out. 
 
 Or if you arc for turning it to buy Phy 
 lick or Medicinal Things, atthe Apothc 
 caries you' may have a Penniworth o 
 juice of Liquorice to cure you of 
 Cough, a Penniworth of Venice-Tread 
 Ko make you fweat, or to expel any iij 
 
cfmonefCatching. 
 
 ward Malady ^ a Penniworth of Jallop> 
 to givs you a Purge, a Penniworth of 
 Syrup of Lettice to make you Sleep; or 
 if you have an IlTue, for a Penny you 
 may have a Diachilon-Plaifter; alfo for 
 a Penny you may have a Plainer of Pa^ 
 lacelfus, or Oil of Rofes, or of S. 
 
 Wort, or Twenty other things you may 
 have occafion for, out of an Apothecary’s 
 Shop. 
 
 If you have a mind to fee how Matters 
 go abroad in the World, and are minded 
 to turn your Penny that way, you may 
 go to the Coffee-Houfe, and there read 
 (if you can) the Gaz.'itte^ and all the Week¬ 
 ly News-Papers, dircourfe and comment 
 upon them your ielf, and hear the Di^ 
 courfe and Comments of others, and 
 drink a Difh of rlac’d) Coffee into the 
 Bargain, and all for a Penny. 
 
 if your Mind runs after Learning, and 
 you have a mind to turn your Penny that 
 way, you may for your Penny buy a Book 
 that has piizaei’d the greateft Scholar this 
 D.iy in E-n^Uml : And if you as)< me, 
 what Book this is? I anfwcr, a Horn- 
 Book, the initiating Book to ail Learning. 
 
 If you either live, or happen to be at 
 WeHmmfier^ and have occafion to go to 
 
 I Lmheth, for a Penny you may fave go- 
 
 F 3 ing-, 
 
310 The Tleafant Art 
 ing Three Miles about i without which, 
 you may walk till you are a weary ; and 
 fo truly^ fa}’-, DefejJ'u' [tm ambularJo. 
 
 If you are a Stranger, and walking a- 
 long the Streets of Lmdon^ are hard belst 
 to do what no Body can do for you, for 
 a Penny you may tirrn into a Colfee* 
 Houfe, and turn out that which Troubles 
 you, and drink a Difh of Coffee or Tea, 
 or a Glafs of Brandy or Ufquebaugh, into 
 the Bargain: And in fuch a Cafe, this is a 
 very happy Turn of a Penny \ for without 
 it, you muft have turn’d that into your 
 Breechees, which you had much rather 
 have turn’d any where elf'e. 
 
 And tho’ the Mafter of the Rolls be an 
 Honourable, as well as a Profitable Place, 
 yet for a Penny you may take Two of the 
 bed Rolls you can find in the Baker’s 
 Basket. 
 
 For a Penny you may relieve Four fe- 
 veral Poor People, and thereby make e- 
 v/en Heaven it felf a Debtor to you: And 
 can you lay your Money'out to better 
 .Advalntage, or put it into lurer Hands ? 
 
 And thus you fee hoiv mmy feveral vjfljs & 
 fenny may be Turned, 
 
 But 
 
of Money-Catching, 
 
 Buf he that wou’d Thrive muft be cau¬ 
 tious in his Expences ^ efpecially thofe 
 that return every Day ; of which Vidu- 
 ais and Drink are the Chief; the Excefs 
 and Superfluity whereof, hinders many 
 a Man from Thriving : And not only fo, 
 but it debilitates the Body as much as it 
 empties the Purfe. For Nature is fatisfy’d 
 with a little; and more than fatisfies Na¬ 
 ture, deftroys it: And therefore he that 
 can content himfelf with courfe and cheap 
 Foods, fuch as Sallads, Fruits, Roots, 
 Bread and Water, and hath fet fuch 
 Bounds to his Defires, that he is fatisfy’d 
 with wfiat only fupplies the Neceffities of 
 Nature, and has his Happinefs within him¬ 
 felf, Bands not in fear of Fortune, let 
 her do her wprft; For what malignity of 
 Fortune has ever reduc’d any Man to a 
 lov/er Ebb than Bread and Water; And 
 there are leveral in the World, that delire 
 no better Repaft, and are not only well 
 concent, but highly pleas’d therewith. — 
 But becaufe there are but few in Compari- 
 fonof the others, that will be contented 
 with fo mean a Diet, tho’ they are willing ' 
 to be jpsiing too, thr;t they may §et be¬ 
 fore hand in the World, and thrive in their 
 Callings, I have here Subjoined and Ex- 
 traded cut of the late Worthy Mr, 
 F 4 Thomai 
 
'fhe ? leaf ant Art 
 
 Thoms T joti's Works, (with whom I was 
 pardcuiarJy acquainted) a Catalogue of 
 alnioft aa hundred Noble Dii'hes of Meat, 
 lor thofs that are minded to Regale them- 
 fel'veSj moft of which firall not (land a 
 Man in above two pence a Day : And 
 he that lives upon two pence a Day, if he 
 gets any thing at all, muft needs be in a 
 way to thrive. 
 
 Directions for preparing Vourfcore No- 
 ■ lie and Whole fame Dijhes., tt^on 
 mofi of which a Man may live for 
 two pence a Day. 
 
 1. p Read and Water, to be ufed now 
 O and then, will make a good Meal, 
 they having the firli place of ail Foods, 
 and are the Foundations of dry and moift 
 Nutriment, and of an Opening Clean* 
 fing Nature. 
 
 2 Take two Spoonfuls of Wheat Flow- 
 er, or Oatmeal, put it into cold Wacer, 
 mix them well together, ffin ing them in 
 two Quarts of Water over a quick Fire, 
 till it boil up, putting to it a htr’e . ■ t, 
 and fome Bread • or inftead oi Biead an 
 Onion boil’d in it will do : This wil not 
 coil above a Farthing, and yet mak s a 
 
of Money-Oatchmgi 
 
 may bs made thicker or thinner^ as you. 
 like befi; but thick is beft for healthy Peo 
 pie, 
 
 3. Take a Spoonful of Ground Oas> 
 meal, and temper it with cold Watery 
 thenhrew it in a Quart of Water made 
 boiling hot, and fee it on the .Fire agaLu; 
 till it boil up 3 then brew it again, and k 
 is done; put fome Bread and a little Salt 
 into it, and then eat it,; This makes as 
 good a Meal as the World affords.-. If you. 
 make a Meal of this alone, you may boil- 
 in it fome Pot-Iierbs and Onions, and it’s 
 done. 
 
 4. Take four Quarts of Water, and; 
 put a Pint of Peafe therein ; then fet them; 
 in the Pot on a gentle Fire, and let them • 
 boil flowly, for three or four Hours, till; 
 they are foft and incorporated, into the Pot^" - 
 tage, fhred an Onion into it, and a little: 
 dry Sage rubb’d into Powder, and. add 
 a little Mint, if you pleafe, or any o£- 
 thefe Herbs green will ferve: After your 
 Herbs are boil’d, put in two Spoonfuls of; 
 Wheat Flower made into Batter with colcfi 
 Water; and when your Pottage boils.up, 
 it is done: This will make aboui two- 
 Quarts,, and will ferve a labouring Masi > 
 a Day, and not colt above three tmlf- 
 pfincsi- 
 
 f? Tak@; 
 
i]0 The Tkafudt Art i 
 
 f. Take a Qaart of Waiar, and put it i 
 on the Fire till it boils up, then put a 
 Spoonful of Oat-niea! well mix’d in two ] 
 or three Spoonfuls of cold Water, and 
 mix an Egg well in it, and put it to your 
 boiling Water ^ put a little Salt and Bread, 
 if you pleafe, to it, and this makes a 
 Noble Meal. 
 
 6. Take Flower a fufficient quantity, 
 ihen add Water fufficient to make it up 
 into a Pafte, put a little Salt and Ginger 
 to it, and a little Yeafl; make your Dum¬ 
 plings as large as a Crovifn piece, and boil 
 them ,• this is vvholefome, nourifiiing, 
 and pleafant Food. 
 
 7. Take an equal quantity of Milk and 
 Water, and when it begins to boil, put in 
 Blower, the ufual way of making hafiy 
 Puddings and eat this with Butter, 0.'' 
 with Milk; this is hearty and wholefomej 
 Nouiifhment. 
 
 8. Or Water and Flower with a litilei 
 Ginger, made into hafty Pudding,, and 
 cat with Milk or Butter, is hearty V iduals, 
 
 9. Bread and Butter eaten with thin 
 G uel. wherein is nothing but Salt, is the, 
 moft approved Way of eating Water-Gru¬ 
 el, efpeciaily when you bite and fup, as 
 you do raw MUk and Bread. This is a 
 mOil curious snd fweet Food for the Sto¬ 
 mach, 
 
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 inach, of eafie Concodiotij breeds good 
 Blood, and caufeth it to Circulate fieely. 
 
 10 Milk made boiling hot, and thick¬ 
 en’d with Eggs, is a brave fubftantial 
 Food, of a friendly mild Nature and 
 Operation. 
 
 11. Bread and Butter, or Bread and 
 Cheefe, eaten alone with wafhed Sallads, 
 without Salt, Oil or Vinegar^ or wdth 
 them, makes a moft dainty Food, of a 
 Cleaning Qiiality, and eafie of Concodt^- 
 on. 
 
 12 Eggs broken and butter’d over the- 
 Fire, is a very good Food, being eaten 
 with fibre of Bread : Or Eggs roafted 
 ur boiled in their Shells, roafted being the 
 beft, eatbn with Bread, Butter, and Salt, 
 or Bread and Salt, is a good fubftantial 
 Food: 
 
 13. Eggs boil’d, butter’d, and eaten 
 w'ith Bread, is excellent Food. 
 
 14. Parfley boil’d and cut fmall, mixed 
 with forae Butter and Vinegar melted, 
 and poached Eggs, makes a Curious Difhj, 
 and gives great Satisfadion to the Sto¬ 
 mach ; fupplying Nature with Nutriment 
 to the higheft Degree, and is very plea-, 
 fant to the Palate. 
 
 ly. Eggs broken together, and fry'd i 
 with Butte'fj and when fried, melt fome ■ 
 Buttej A 
 
r The Pieafant 
 
 Burter and Vinegar, and put .over them, 
 is a moh curious and dainty Dilh j beirrg 
 much better than the common way of 
 frying Eggs • this being lighter and more 
 teadefj and eafierof Concotftion. 
 
 1 6 . An Egg broken into a Pint of good 
 Ale, and brewed well together, and 
 eaten with Bread; makes a brave Meal, 
 and hath a vigorous and quick Operation 
 In the Stomach: In Winter, you may 
 warm it j but in Summer you may drink 
 kcold. . 
 
 17. Pbach’d Eggs eaten, with a dilh of 
 boil’d- Spinage. butter’d, is a curious 
 Food'i and being eaten with plenty ©f 
 good Bread, affords agreeable Nutriment. 
 
 r8. Eggs mix’d with various forts of 
 Fruits, with Butter and Bread made into 
 Pies, is a fort of pleafant Food, that a 
 Man may eat now and then with great 
 Satisfaction, and' no lefs friendly to Na¬ 
 ture, provided it be not too often. 
 
 19. Raw Eggs broke into Water-Gruel 
 that is thin and brewed well together, 
 with a little Salt bit, and then eaten with 
 Bread, or Bread and Butter, makes a moil 
 delicate Food; and is, very good for all' 
 young People and Women, being of a 
 warming' Quality, and agreeable to the 
 Stomach } creates, good: Bloody and fine 
 
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 brisk Spirits 5 for the often ufing of this^ 
 and other of our Spoon-meats, do natu¬ 
 rally fweeten all the Humours, and pre¬ 
 vents the generation of lour Juices, and 
 frees the Paifage from Windineis and 
 griping Pains, 
 
 20. Artichoaks boil’d, vsrith Bread, Bufi 
 ter and Salt, are an Excellent Food, and 
 creates a fubliantial Nutriment; a Man 
 may make a good Meal of ’em. 
 
 21. Take one or two Eggs, beat them, 
 with a little Water, and take a pint of ' 
 good Ale or Beer, fweeten it with Sugary, 
 then put it on the Fire, make it boiling 
 hot, but not boil, then brew them well 
 together : This is a curious comforting 
 16 't of Food j or rather a rich Cordial,, 
 which does mightily replenilh Nature, 
 both with dry and moift Nutriment. 
 
 22. Afparagus boil’d, and eaten with 
 Bread, Butter and Salt, is a moft dainty 
 Food, and affords a clean Nutriment, 
 and is friendly to the Stomach, loofens 
 the Belly, powerfully purges by Urine, 
 and opens C^ftrudlions. 
 
 2 3. Rice and Water boil’d'and butter’d, 
 is a friendly Food, and eafie of Digeflionj 
 and affords a good Nutriment, 
 
 24. Boil’d. Coleworts, Colly-flowers, 
 and-Cabbage, eaten with Bread, Butteri 
 Vinegar 
 
.[ j4 •. Pleafmt Art 
 
 Vinegar and Salt, the firft of the three 
 being the beft ; for they purge by Urine, 
 loofen the Beily, and are eafie of Di- 
 gefrion ; but remember that you boil 
 them in plenty of good Water, and over 
 a quick Fire, and not too much •, which ir 
 to be obferved in all the Preparations of 
 Herbs and Grains. 
 
 2<. Rice and Milk is aifo a dainty 
 Food, affording a fubhantial Nutriment, 
 efpeci.dly if you'put Sugar into it. 
 
 26. Green Beans boil’d and eaten with 
 Salt, Butter and Bre.idj ir a moft delicate 
 Food: But let all People fubject to windy 
 Difeafeseac them fparingly. 
 
 27. The young Bud- of Coleworts and 
 Spinage, boil’d in plenty of good Water, 
 with a brisk Firs, and eaten only with 
 Bread, Butter and Salt, is a fine, delicate 
 and delightful Food, affording a good 
 clean Nutriment. 
 
 ?.8. French Beans boil’d in plenty of 
 Water, with a brisk Fire, and eaten with 
 Bread, Butter and Salt makes a moft 
 curious Diih of Food ■, being of a clean¬ 
 ing opening Nature and Operation, af¬ 
 fords a good Nutriment, gently opens the 
 Belly, and purges by Urine, 
 
 29. Endive, young Parftey and Spin- 
 age, boil’d, and eaten with Bread, Butter 
 and 
 
of Mfffjey'Catching. 15^ 
 rnd Salt, is a curious friendly Exhilerating 
 Food, and makes good Blood, and clean- 
 feth the TalEges. 
 
 30, Breadj. Rutter and Sorrel,, makes a 
 b.' isk Food, eafie and quick of Concodion, 
 cleanfeth the Stomach, and creates good 
 Blood 
 
 ? I . Spin^ge boil’d with the topE of Balm 
 and Mint, leafoned with Salt and Butter, 
 and eaten with Bread, makes a cuiious 
 Eiih, affords excellent Nutriment, and is 
 of av;aiming QuaFty. 
 
 2,2. Carrots boil’d, and fealoned with 
 Butter and Salt, and eaten with good 
 Bread, is a curious Di!h of Food, and 
 very pleafantand wholefome, and eafie of 
 Digeftion. 
 
 5 2. Smalledge makes a Potrage or Gruel 
 0^ a clearfing Qiaiiry • being eaten twice 
 a Day, is anelDdual Remery gpainfi ail 
 confiimptive Humours ; it cicanicth the 
 Blood, and opens obftrutlfions of the Li¬ 
 ver and Spleen 
 
 34. Boil’d Wheat butter’d, is a curious 
 Dilh, and affords a fweet, friendly, and 
 moff agreeable Nutriment, being eafie of 
 Digeflion, and creates fine thin Blood: 
 It’s a Noble Difh. 
 
 35. Green Peafe boil’d and feafon’d 
 with Salt and Butter, and eaten with Bread, 
 
 naakes 
 
fjc"* The Pleaf aft f Aft 
 
 makes a mofi- delicate Dilh of Food j kt 
 if not fparingly eateOj are windy, and 
 theif Nutriment not ftrong. 
 
 36. Bread and Butter, and RadiOies, 
 is a very good Food, and affords a fubftan- 
 tial Nouriihment; now and then, a Msa 
 may make a good Meal thereof. 
 
 37. Boil’d Turnips, feafon’d with Salt 
 and Butter, and eaten with Bread, makes 
 a very good Difhof Food, particularly 
 for all young People; they are eafie of 
 digeftion, open and purifie the Paflfages, 
 and may with fafety be eaten plentifully. 
 
 58. Weet Charwel makes an excellent 
 Pottage, being eaten with Bread, Butter 
 and Salt j and is not only a good Foody 
 but the frequent ufe thereof purifies the 
 Blood, and is a Friend to the Lungs. 
 
 39. Parfnips boil’d in plenty of good 
 Water, feafon’d vvich Salt, Butter, Vine- 
 gfrand Muftard, makes a curious hearty 
 Dilh of Food, and are friendly to moft 
 Conftitutions. 
 
 40. Light Puddings made of Bread, 
 and divers other forts of Ingredients, are 
 pleafant to the Palate, and not ungrateful 
 to the Stomach, if fparingly eaten^ 
 
 41. Water-Creffes made into Pottage, 
 eaten with Bread, Butter and Salt, is not 
 only a good Fooi but often eating there* 
 
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 of, purifies the Blood, and prevents Fumes 
 and Vapours from flying into the 
 Crown. 
 
 42. Boil’d or Roafted Potatoes, eaten 
 with Butter, Salt and Vinegar, makes a 
 pleafant Difh of Food, ai e eafie of Con- 
 codion, very grateful to the Stomach j 
 and now and then a Meal of them may do 
 well. 
 
 43. Rice Puddings, both plain, and 
 and made of Fruit, which for the nioft 
 part are a pleafant fort of Food, ea/ie of 
 Conco^^on, and may be freely Eaten. 
 
 44. Take Currans, boil them in your 
 Water, when almoft done, mix a little 
 fmall Oat- meal with two Spoonfuls of cdd 
 Water; ftir it in, and let it boil a little j 
 when done, feafcn it with Salt, adding 
 Sugar to it; This eaten with Bread, makes 
 a good Meal; you may add Butter, as’ 
 moffgood Houfevvifesdo; but I muB tell 
 them that it makes k heavy on the Sto¬ 
 mach, and apt to fend Fumes into the 
 Head. 
 
 45. Apple-Dumplins, eaten with But» 
 ter, or Butter and Sugar, is the heft of all 
 Diimplins, affording a friendly Kourilh- 
 ment, and are eafie of Digeffion. 
 
 ^6. Mint makes a Noble Exhilerating 
 Pottage j frequent eating thereof does 
 
ijS The P leaf ant Art ,• 
 noc only p evnnt windy Htimoars in the 
 Pafiagesj but It niig'.nliy y'l'rcngthens the 
 retentive Fscalty of :he Sioraach. 
 
 47. Pears, being fui! ripe^ make a good 
 Pie, and are a line gentle friendly Foodj 
 of eafie Concoction. 
 
 48. Steep youi' Pctife eighteen Mours, 
 then boil them in a Poc^ wi.h a Fagot of 
 fweet Herbs, fome Capers, and an Oni¬ 
 on ftiick with Cloves: This is a whole- 
 fome and pleafant Food 
 
 49. Take Sorrel, Lettice, Beet, Piir- 
 llain, anci a bundle of Herbs, boil them 
 together with fait Butter, and the Cruft 
 of a Loaf foaked ; This is an eKceiient 
 Pottage. 
 
 50. Pottage of Sprouts of Cokworts, 
 is made thus: Boil them in Water, Salt, 
 Peafe, Broth, Butter, Onion diced, and 
 a little Pepper, then (oak your Bread, and 
 gamilh it with Sprouts, and fill yourDifh 
 therewith. 
 
 y i. Pottage of French Barley, is made 
 by putting your Barley (being cleanfed 
 from Duft) in boiling Milk •, being boiled 
 down, put in it large Mace, Cream, Su¬ 
 gar, and a little Salt | boil it indifferent 
 thick, and it is done. 
 
 yi. Bread, Butter and.Sage, affords 
 good Nourilhment, it expels Wind, and 
 warms the Stomach. ys- Gar- 
 
V '^oney-Catching, 139 
 
 53. Garlick-Pottage is chiefiy good for 
 full-bodied corpulent People, and fuch as 
 are troubled with Coughs, the Stone and 
 Gravel. 
 
 5-4 Take your Sailad-Herbs, fuch as 
 you moft like, and put feme Vinegar_j 
 Muffard and Oyl, well beat together, to 
 your Herbs. This is an Excellent Sallad^ 
 eaten with Bread only, and may be eaten 
 with Flefh, by them that won’t be fatisB/’d 
 without it. 
 
 5 y. A piece of Bread, and a few Rat¬ 
 lins of the Sun, make an excellent Meal, 
 a pint of good Ale or Beer drank alter 
 it. 
 
 y6. Clary Hired, and Eggs beat well 
 together, and fry’d with fome Butter, is 
 an Excellent DiOi, eipecially for Old 
 People. 
 
 yy. Take a Cabbage-leaf, and fibred it 
 very fmall, and put a little Vinegar and 
 Pepper to it y and it will eat as pleafant 
 as Cucumbers to thofe that eat Flefh 
 v;ith it. 
 
 s8. The young Tops of Afparagus 
 boil'd, makes an Excellent Meat, eaten 
 with Bread and Butter, 
 
 59. A Root that grows, called Mercu¬ 
 ry, if the Tops of it, - which fomething 
 refembles Afparagus, be boil’d, and eaten 
 with 
 
140 ~fhe Pleafant Art 
 
 with Butter and Breads is an Excellent 
 
 Food, being of a Cleanfing Quality. 
 
 60. Shadown, or Holy Thirties boil’d, 
 and Butter melted, and a little Vinegar 
 pat to it, makes an Excellent Meal, eaten 
 with Bread. 
 
 61. Pumpkin fry’d, and a little Vinegar 
 and Butter to it, make, a good Meal, 
 eaten with Bread only. 
 
 6 z. Whole Oatmeal boil’d in a Pot or 
 Pipkin, but firft let the Water boil; being 
 well boil’d and tender, put in Milk, or 
 Cream, with Salt and frelh Butter, and 
 eat it with Bread. 
 
 63. Take Alexander and Oatmeal to. 
 geth'er, pick’d and wafli’d, and when 
 your Water is boil’d, put in your Herbs, 
 Oatmeal and Salt ; boil it on a I'ofc Fire, 
 make it not too thick; being almoft boild, 
 put in Ibme Butter ; eat this with Bread, 
 and it makes an excellent Meal 
 
 64. Peale put into boiling Milk, or 
 Cream, with two or three Spriggs of 
 Mint, and a little Salt ; being tender 
 boil’d, thicken them with a little Milk 
 and Flower; This makes an excellent 
 Food. 
 
 65. Green Corn, taken as it groweth 
 of it felf, or a little parch’d or dry’d againit 
 jhs Fire or Beep’d, or boil’d in Wine ; 
 
 affords 
 
af Money-Catching. 141 
 
 affords, in hard Times, a reafonable Sub- 
 ftance. 
 
 66. Bread and raw Eggs, is an excel¬ 
 lent Food, and cleanfeth the Paffages. 
 
 67. Eggs boil’d in the Shells, or roafled, 
 eaten with Bread and Salt, and fometimes 
 Butter, is a good Nourifhing Food. 
 
 68. Eggs with Flower and Water, made 
 into a Pap on the Fire, is a Noble Food, 
 affording a brave clean Nonrifliment. 
 
 69. An Egg or two, beaten and brewed 
 in a Pint of raw Milk, is a Noble Subffan- 
 tial Food : If the Weather be cold, you 
 may warm the Milk. 
 
 70. There are feveral Foods made with 
 Milk, as Cuflards, Cheefe-Cakes, and 
 White-pots ^ thefe nourifh much, but are 
 not to be eaten too frequently. 
 
 71. Boil’d Pudding, made with Flower, 
 Milk and Eggs, and Raifins and Currans, 
 and butter'd, makes a pleafant Difh. 
 
 72. Cut the Tops of Beans when they 
 have Codded, boil them and butter them, 
 and they make an excellent Difh, eaten 
 with Bread. 
 
 7;. Bonny-clabber eaten with Bread, 
 is excellent Food in hot Weather, efpeci* 
 ally for Confumptive People. 
 
 74. Flummery is alfo an Excellent 
 Food, elpecially for thofe who have but 
 weak 
 
142- the ?leafant Art 
 weak Stomachs; for it opens thofe Pafia- 
 ges chat are furr’d and obftruded by 
 phlegmy matter. 
 
 7f. Ceilary makes an excellent Pottage. 
 
 •'6. Farmety plain, or with Fruit, 
 makes an excellent Meal j but that which 
 is plain, is bell. 
 
 77. Milk-Pottage, half Milk and half 
 Water, eat with Bread, is Excellent for 
 Confumptive and weak People, and for 
 thofe in health too. 
 
 78. Sage, eaten with Bread and Butter 
 in May, and indeed at all other times in 
 the Year, makes a Noble Meal. 
 
 79. Pear-Pies and Apple-Pies afford 
 good Nourifhiiient. 
 
 80. Bread and Milk raw, as it comes 
 from the Cow, is the beftof Foods, and 
 fweetens the Blood. 
 
 Thus, Reader, have I given thee a 
 Catalogue of Dr. Trpni Variety of Dilh- 
 es, and cheap V/ays of Diving- And 
 Com the Commendation that the Dodor 
 has given to many of them, I obferve that 
 thofe that are moft plain, and moft eafie 
 to be come at, are the moft Nourifhing 
 and the moft Wholeforae; If therefore 
 Variety 
 
of Money-Catching, 14J -■ 
 Variety and Cheapnefs will pleafe you, 
 
 I have fet before you chofe Noble Difhes, 
 as the Doctor calls 'em, that will ferve 
 both for Food and Phvfick 5 and are both 
 Meat and Sauce : And obferving whereof, 
 iliofe whofe Circumhaiices are narrow, 
 may accommodate themfelves according¬ 
 ly with vaiicty of Foods that wdll both 
 Nourilh and Delight their Bodies, and 
 Spare their Purfes. 
 
 But methinKs I hear Tome Honeft Fel- 
 lows that are willing to Thrive j fay, Hers 
 I! wdced Variety of Adeats,^ hut xvhat jhali ’ive 
 do for Drink at a Cheay Rate ? Hn'e ye no 
 Contrivance for that ? 
 
 I anfwer, Yes; or elfe all had been to 
 no Purpofe: For there’s many a Man 
 fpends three times mote in Drink abroad, 
 than all his Family (which perhaps may be 
 none of the fmalleft neither) does in 
 Viftuals at home. I will therefore, be¬ 
 fore I conclude my Art of Thriving, give 
 a Receipt or two for the making fuch 
 Drink as will quench ones Thirft, pleafe 
 ones Pailare, and fparc ones Pocket 5 ic 
 being eafily come-at-able : And tho’ I 
 mow I fhall have no Thanks for my Pains 
 bm thofe that mif-call themfelves good 
 Fellows, whom nothing but that which 
 i'/iii inebriate, will facisfie ; Yet I doubt 
 not 
 
" 144 P leaf ant Art 
 
 not but the hor.c> ^ober Reader, who 
 W'ill be contented .vi i what fuffices Na- 
 Nature, and defigns not the drowning of 
 his Brains, but the quenching of his 
 Thirft, will be very well pleas’d with 
 what I lhall offer. 
 
 How to make feveral Sorts, of Drinks, 
 Chea^ and P leaf ant, 
 
 t '^T^Ake a Quart of clear Water, and 
 
 X a large Spoonful of ground Oat¬ 
 meal, and incorporate them into each 
 other, by pouring it out of one Pot into 
 another, fifteen or twenty times, and it is 
 prepared : This quenches Thirft the bed 
 of any Liquor 3 and is excellent againft 
 Gravel, .Stone, Scurvy, or moft other 
 Diftempers whatever. In Winter make it 
 Blood-warm: Or, I think it better, if 
 )uft boiled into a thin Gruel. 
 
 !L Gather the Tops of Heath, where¬ 
 of the ufual Brufhes are made, and dry 
 them and keep them from molding; and 
 then you may at all times brew a cheap 
 D^ink, which is very wholelorae for thf 
 Liver and Spleen 5 if you put a littk 
 Liquorice into it, it will be much plea 
 fanter. 
 
 Ill 
 
$f Money-Catching, 14$ 
 
 III. Water and Vinegar is a pleafant 
 Drink ^ or, a Quart of Water, and five 
 or fix Spoonfuls of A(iua Comfo/ita , a 
 quantity of Sugar, a little Borrage, or a 
 Branch of Rofemary, all brew’d toge¬ 
 ther. 
 
 IV. Take Wormwood, that is cither 
 out down in the Leaf before it is Seeded, 
 or being Seeded, that which is cut into 
 Ihort Pieces, whereby there may be an 
 Equal Mixture of the whole Bulk toge¬ 
 ther I for you muft note that the Seeded 
 Tops are much Stronger, and more Oily 
 than the reft of the Leaves or Stalks: 
 Make firft a Decodion of four Ounces of 
 Hops with Nine Gallons of Water, which 
 is the Proportion that feme Brewers (in 
 fome fort of Drink) do ufe: And when 
 you have got out by Ebullition the full 
 Strength and Vertue of them, keep the 
 fame apart *, and begin likewife with (bme 
 fmall Proportion of Wormwood, to the 
 like quantity of Water as before j and 
 when you have beftow’d as much time and 
 fire herein, as you did about the Hops • 
 you may tafte each of them by it fclf; 
 and if you find it to exceed the firft in Bit- 
 ternefs, then begin with a lefs proportion 
 of Wormwood ,• and fo reiterate your 
 
 G Work 
 
' 146 The Pleafafft i Art 
 
 Work until you have equally match’d the 
 one with the other: Then you may fafe. 
 ly proceed by the Rule of Proportion, to 
 a Barrel, and fb to a Tun^ and on to a 
 whole Brewing. And fb you may fave 
 the charge of Hops, by ufing Wormwood, 
 which will eoft you nothing almoll but the 
 gathering, Many make ufe of Eroorn; to 
 the fame purpofe. And fome affirm, That 
 Centaury, Artichoak Leaves, or Aloes 
 Hypati^ue, wilf have the fame Operation; 
 
 y.. Cakc-bread or, Spice bread. , (ftcep’d 
 in Water) makes delicate Drink; and the 
 Bread is wholefpme to Eat. 
 
 yL ^|,e,;y'^iiiarisk, and.Topsof Pine, 
 
 or yir-Ts.,epmemdec|;;^y Anvt(ay//»eMto brew 
 
 witHa^'asmudi Bpt;^ t^an.j-Iops;, it being 
 reckon’d exceljent againft the Scuryey, 
 boil’d in your Liqiior. 
 
 VI.I. Herbs that Will.ferve in.Brewing 
 as well as liops, and for many Condituti- 
 ohs muchyener, i^re, Balm and Penny¬ 
 royal, Mint, I'aniie, Broom, Wormwood, 
 
 ■ Century, Carduus, ■ Eye bright, ■ Sage, 
 Betony, Dandalion, and gcod Hay : But 
 •then you, muff take care to^ gather tbefe 
 Herbs ini-theic/proper Se#ns, and dry 
 
I of Moffej-Ci^tchhg. 147 
 them ^ for thej^ are not near fo good, if 
 uied green. Note alfo, that if you infufe 
 Broom, Wormwood, Carduus, or Tanfie, 
 or any other that exceeds in Bitternels, 
 30U muft not let them lie in your Wort 
 above half an Hour and if you put a 
 good quantity, a quarter of an Hour is 
 enough. 
 
 VIII. Inhead of Malt, the Liquor of 
 Beech is commended for making an Excel¬ 
 lent wholelbme Drink. 
 
 IX. A Quart of fair Water, a Spoonful 
 of Vinegar, or Jqaa Compofita, and a 
 Spoonful of Sugar, a little Borrage and 
 Rofemary, brewed all together, makes a 
 wholdfome and pleafing Drink. 
 
 X. Take a Bulhel and an half of good 
 Wheat Bran, add a Gallon of Moloires,and 
 fome Ginger •, and add Water to it, and it 
 ivill make a Barrel of good Table Beer. 
 
 XI. Take a Quart, or two or three, 
 of Water, and put fome Drops of Vitriol 
 into it, with White Sugar and Nutmeg, 
 and a little Limon-Peel; brew them Vv^ell 
 together, and it makes a pleafant and 
 Iwholefome Drink. 
 
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 m. Boil 
 
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 i4B The Tierfmt Art 
 
 XII. Boil Treacle and Water together, 
 and work it with Yeaft ^ or ftir a little 
 Treacle and Water together, and drink a 
 Draught, and its pleafant and wholefomc} 
 and taken oft oji an Empty Stomach, cures 
 Coughs and fhortnefs of Breath. 
 
 Thus I have given my Reader forae 
 Receipts for cheap Drink, and that which 
 is good, pleafent and wholefome; and ii 
 he be difpos’d to Brew himfelf, (hew’d 
 him how he may go to work the cheapell 
 way.—So that being thus put into th( 
 way to Thrive, if he will follow the Rule 
 btfore laid down, and take the Advic( 
 herein given, he need not queftion in: 
 little time to be perfedin the pleafant Ar 
 .of Money-Gatching. 
 
[ had here thought'to have concluded,, 
 but the BookTellersrtelling me there 
 wanted fomewhat more to make uj^ 
 the Sheet, I (hall here infert Ibme 
 Proverbs, which they wouM do 
 well to obferve, that have a mind 
 to Thrive in the World: And the 
 rather, becaufe Proverbs are the 
 Wife and Experienc'd Sayings of 
 every Nation; and by which one 
 Nation may beft judge of the Wif 
 domof another. And it muft needs 
 be both Pleafant and Ufeful to th& 
 Reader to fee the Sentiments of all 
 Nations agree fo well together, 
 with refped to the Art of Money- 
 Catching^ and the Way to Thrive. 
 
 PROVERBS to he ohfervd hy all 
 that will thrive. 
 
 I N vain he craves Advice, that will nw 
 follow it. 
 
 Tho Old and Wife, yet ftill advife. 
 
 No Alchymy to Saving, for that’s the 
 beft way to Thrive. 
 
 G 3, Rely 
 
I the ? leaf ant Art 
 
 Rely not on Another^ for vvh^it thou 
 can’it do thy felf. 
 
 ’Tis better ■ riding on an Afs that carries 
 me, than on an Afs that thro'>vs ni^. 
 
 On a good Bargain, think twice. 
 
 He that makes his Bed ill, muft lie in it. 
 
 He who lies long in Bed, his Eftate feels it. 
 
 He who looks not before, finds himfclf 
 behind. 
 
 Keep good Men Company, and you fiiall 
 be of the Number, 
 
 Credit is Tike a Venice Glafs, foon broken. 
 
 He that hath loft his Credit, is dead to 
 the World. 
 
 When all is gone^ anil nothing left^ 
 
 What avails the Dagger with the Dudgeon 
 (Heftl 
 
 It is never a bad Day that hath a good 
 Night. 
 
 It is better to go to Bed Supperlefs, than 
 rife in Debt. 
 
 He lofeth his Thanks, that delayeth to 
 perform his Promife. 
 
 A Man may loofe his Goods, for want of 
 demanding them. 
 
 Firftdeferve, and then defire. 
 
 Defert and Reward feldom keep Com¬ 
 pany 
 
 Do vi?hat thou oughteft, and then come 
 what can. 
 
 Think of Eafe, but v/ork on, ’Tis 
 
of Money-Catching: tfi 
 
 ’Tis good to begin well, but better to end 
 well. 
 
 A fat Hcufe-keper makes lean Executors. 
 
 He that is fufFerM to do more' than is 
 fitting, will do more than is biwrul. 
 
 When* a Friend arjfeth thee, there is no 
 
 ■' to-niorrow. • ■ 
 
 Hava 'But few Friends, tho’ much Ac« 
 quainiancs. 
 
 ’Tis not the gay Coat that makes the 
 Gentleman. 
 
 Do not fay Go, but gaw; i.A. Gothy felf. 
 
 Get thy Spindle and thy Diflaff ready, 
 and God will fend thee Flax.' J. e. Let 
 US do our Duty, and refer the reft to 
 GOD’s Providnce. 
 
 Ho Lock will hold, 
 
 Againfi thi Force of Gold, 
 
 You rrray fpeak with your Gold, and 
 make other Tongues dumb. 
 
 When we have Gold, we are in fear ^ when 
 we have none, we are in danger. 
 
 One never lofeth by doing good Turns. 
 
 Things hardly attain’d, arc long retain’d. 
 
 Good Harvefts makes Men prodigal, bad 
 ones provident. 
 
 He that hath a good Harveft, may be 
 content with fome Thiftles. 
 
 Every Man is beft known to hirafelf. 
 
 Better have my Hog dirty home, than 
 
1^2. The P leaf ant Art 
 
 Dry Bread at home^ is better than Roaft- 
 meat abroad. 
 
 He is Wife, that is Honed. 
 
 Honour and Eafe, are feldom Bedfellows. 
 
 Lend thy Horfefor a long Journey, thou 
 may’fl have him return with his Skin. 
 
 The Foot on the Cradle, and Hand on 
 the Diftaff, is the Sign of a good Huf* 
 wife. 
 
 Idlenefs turns the Edge of Wit. 
 
 Idlenefs is the Key of Beggcry. 
 
 Indudry is Fortunes right han^ and Fru¬ 
 gality her left. 
 
 He goes not out of his Way, that goes to 
 a good Inn. 
 
 We mud not look for a Golden Life in 
 an Iron Age. 
 
 He that labours and thrives, (pins Gold. 
 
 Let your Letter day for the Pod, not the 
 Pod for your Letter: That is, be al¬ 
 ways beforehand with your Bufinefs. 
 
 A Suit of Law and an Urinal, bring a Man 
 to the Hofpital. 
 
 Wherefoever you fee your Kindred* make 
 much of your Friends. 
 
 A Bean with Liberty, is better than a 
 Comfit in Prifon. 
 
 He that Uveth wickedly, can hardly die 
 honedly* 
 
 It is not how long, but how well we live. 
 
 He 
 
of kohy-Catchm^ i 
 He lofeth nothing, who keeps GOD for 
 his Priend. 
 
 Before thou Marry, 
 
 Be fare of a Houfe wherein to tarry. 
 Honeft Men marry foon, Wife Men not 
 at all. 
 
 He who marries for Wealth, fells his. 
 Liberty. 
 
 He who marries for Love without Moneys 
 hath good Nights, and forty Days. 
 
 One Eye of the Matters fees more then 
 ten of the Servants. 
 
 Ufe the means, and mift GOD to give a 
 Blefltng. 
 
 He is net a Merchant hare, 
 
 That hath Money % worth, orWarti 
 Theskillfulleft Man is (corn’d, if he want 
 Money. 
 
 Money,it that which. Art hath turn’d up 
 Trump. 
 
 Money is Welcome, tho’ it comes in a 
 fh—IV Clout. 
 
 A good Name keeps its luftrein the Dark. 
 He who hut once a good Name gets, 
 
 May fifs a Bed, and fay he fweatt. 
 
 An ill Wound is more cafily cur’d ihan.an 
 ill Name. 
 
 By doing nothing we learn to do evil 
 It is more painful to do nothing than fome- 
 thing. 
 
 He 
 
15'4 Pkiifant' Ari' 
 
 He who hath but one Hog, makes him 
 fat { and ne who has but one Son, 
 makes him a Fool. 
 
 The fmoak of a Man’s own Houfe, is 
 better than the Fire of anothers. 
 
 There’s no Companion like the Penny. 
 
 if your Plough be jogging, you may have 
 Meat for your Horles. 
 
 A full Purfe makes the M6ath to fpeak. 
 
 An empty Purfe tills the Face with 
 Wrinkles. 
 
 When all is .confum’d, Repentance comes 
 too late. 
 
 Riches are but the Baggage of Fortune. 
 
 When Riches increaie, the Body decrea- 
 feth: For moH Mtn grow lA, before they 
 grow rich, 
 
 Riches are like Muck, which Bink in a 
 heap; but Ipread abroad, make the 
 Earth fruitful. 
 
 He who ferves well, need not be a%id 
 to ask his Wages: For his own Merit 
 gives him boUnefs, 
 
 Spend and be free, but make nowafte. 
 Who more than he is worth doth Jpend^ 
 
 He makes a Rope his Ufe to End, > 
 Vrhofo fpendeth more than he jhovJd. 
 
 Shall not have to fpend when he would. 
 
 He that hath Spice enough, may feafon 
 his Meat as be pleafeth. 
 
 Stretch 
 
of Mon^-QMing, r^f 
 Stretch your L.egs according to your Co¬ 
 verlet : Or Make your Coat according 
 to your Cloth. 
 
 The Table robs more than the Thief. 
 
 Trade is the Mother of Money. 
 
 When the Tree is fallen, every Man goes 
 •to .it with'his Hatchet. -Or,'when a 
 Man’s down, down with him. 
 
 For want of a Nail, the Shooe islofi -/for 
 want of a Shooe, the Ftorfe is lofl- ^ 
 for want of a Horfe, the Rider is loR, 
 
 . He that goes oai with ofteji Lofs^ 
 
 ‘ At lejl cowet home hfwe'efwg Crefi. 
 
 Me is wife enough, that can keep himfelf 
 warm. v ’ . 
 
 Whores aifect not Men, but their Money. 
 Whorihg and Baudery do oft end in Seg- 
 geiy. ■- i- . 
 
 He that lets!his.Wife ;gb£.to every. Feaft^ 
 and his Horfe drink .at every "Water, 
 -‘ftialhneithef have good Wife, nor good 
 Horfe. ■ 
 
 To him that is willing^,! Wiyk are not' 
 wanting. • .'t: 
 
 Good Words without• Deeds^A 
 Are -^^SrWd 'Retds. tJ. .xmahti' A 
 
 Th€y mulMufhgei: inFrofti'£JhatwfIt.-no6^ 
 work in Heat. 
 
 Prayer and Provender hinders no Journey. 
 Better-fpare, tO’have'oFthifi'obvtrn, theft 
 •’‘asRother Men., ---A. : The. 
 
^Thi fUa[mt Art 
 
 The Fool asks rntjch, but he is more Fool 
 that grants it. 
 
 Go not for every Grief to the Phyfitian, 
 for every Quarrel, to the Lawyer ^ 
 nor for every Thirft to the Pot. 
 
 Fear nothing but Sin. 
 
 Be, not idle, and you fhall not be longing. 
 
 He is not poor that hath little, but he that 
 delires much. 
 
 Keep not ill Men Company, left you in- 
 creafe the Number. 
 
 Iharaifcrable Man makes a. Penny of a 
 Farthing-; and the Liberal, of a Fat 
 ^ing Sixpence. 
 
 Siving much to the ?oer, 
 
 Doth mish a Mans Store. 
 
 love your Neighbour, yet pull not down 
 your Hedge. 
 
 Vertue and a Trade, are the beft Portion, 
 for Childrenv 
 
 Sleep without Supping, and wake'Without 
 Owing. 
 
 A sheerM Look, makes aDifc a Feaft, 
 For wa^ttg bis bandi^ 
 
 Fkm [m bis. Lands, 
 
 A Tradefman that gains not, lofeth. 
 
 Not aitongDayj bm a good Heart, rids 
 Work. 
 
 He that gets out of Debt, grows rich. 
 
 Aitho’ it Raiij^ throw not away thy 
 Watering-Pot. . A. 
 
cf Monty-Qatchhig, ' j ' 
 A little in Quiets 
 Is the only Dieti 
 
 A difcontented Man knowsnot wJiere to 
 iic eafie. 
 
 He that is not Handfome at Twenty, nor 
 Strong at Thirty, hor Rich at Forty, 
 nor Wife at Fifty, will never be Hand¬ 
 fome, Strong, Rich, nor Wile. 
 
 He that repairs not part of his Houfe, 
 muR build it all. 
 
 Wou’d you know what Money is ? Go 
 borrow fome. 
 
 Patience, Time and. Money, accommo' 
 date all things. 
 
 A Penny fpar’d, is twice got, 
 
 Help.thy felf, and GOD will help thee. 
 
 He plays well, that wins. 
 
 Gming, Womn^ and Wine. 
 
 While they Laugh; they make Aden Tine. 
 
 If a, good Man thrives, all thrive with, 
 him. 
 
 It, is good to ftrike while the Iron is hot 
 
 Time and Tide tarry for no Man. 
 
 Better thrive late, than never. 
 
 Need makes -the Old Wife trot. 
 
 He that goetb-a Bomvfing, Goetb a Sommng,. 
 
 It is Money that makes the Mare to go. 
 
 A Man’s own Manners do make his For¬ 
 tune either Bad or Good. 
 
 Too 
 
: ■: o Tk Pleafant Art 
 Too much of one thing,is good for nothing. 
 
 Anil thenfure Ujl I flioud tire the RcaJer, 
 til here i)Ht an End to thefe Proverbs. 
 
 Some Serious and Necejfary Advices to 
 all thofe that dejire to thrive in the 
 Worlds and to have the Blefing of 
 GOD with what they get. 
 
 I cannot clofe the-Art of Thriving .bet¬ 
 ter, than with the following Directions and 
 Advices, for which there needs no Apo¬ 
 logy. ^ 
 
 I. A Sfureyoiir f;Ives there can bedi6' 
 il honeft Thriving without "the' 
 Fear of,GOD, and the Exercife. of a 
 good Confcience: And therefore above 
 all Things difengage your ielf from 'all 
 that Bufinefs and' tliole Diverfions that 
 ftand in Competition with thatgodly-Fear, 
 that ought to be a Guide to you in all 
 your Actions. . '' 
 
 2 . Avoid the Company ;df-all Vddous- 
 Perfons whatfoever, as miich as you cah ; 
 for no Vice is alone,-and airar'e mfeCii- 
 ous; Efpecially avoidTiich'l^CrfoAs-ks are 
 fcandalous either for Profeflibh;pf Man¬ 
 ners ; for you run his hazard, aiyi efpbufe 
 his Difreputation ; And fuch are Swear- 
 
^ of Monej-Catching. 1^9 
 ers and Prophane Blafphemer^, HedorSj, 
 Scoffers, and Town- Bullies, &c, 
 
 3. Befure notto keep Company with 
 Drunkards and Bufie-bodies, and ail fucb 
 as are apt to talk, much to little Purpofe r 
 For no Man can be provident of his 
 Time, that is not prudent in the choice of 
 his Company. 
 
 4. Be watchful againft Idlenefs, and fill 
 np all the empty Spaces of your Time with 
 fevere and ufeful Employments : For 
 Lull ufually creeps in at thofe Empti- 
 neffes where the Soul is unemploy’d, and 
 the Body is at eale. 
 
 5 Take heed of thofe Men that are hot 
 and quarrelfome; they will affront you 
 for nothing, and urge things beyond Rea- 
 Ibn and meafure ; and you will bring 
 your feif.into trouble with them, vvhith 
 you cannot free your felf from but with 
 difficulty. 
 
 6 Avoid muhiplichy of Bufincsffes- 
 and in thofe that are unavoidable, labour 
 for an Evennefs and Tranquility of Spirit,, 
 that you may be unruffled and finooth in 
 all the Tempefts of Fortune. 
 
 7. Be not over precipitate in your 
 Defigns; great Defigns require great Con- 
 lideration ; and Time muff bring ’em to 
 Maturity, or elfe they will prore abor* 
 
16 Q The leaf ant Art 
 
 tive. I remem-ber the Fable tells us, The 
 Fox reproach’d the Lionefs for her fterili- 
 ty and Ilownefs in Breeding; flieanfwer’d, 
 ’Tis true, I breed flowly, but what I bring 
 forth, is a Lion. 
 
 8 . Take heed left your fecular Affairs 
 does not engrofs all your Thoughts, and 
 difturb the Courfe of your Duty to GOD t 
 But watch over your Inclinations, and let 
 the love of GOD be always prefent in 
 the firft defires of your Soul. 
 
 9- BeaaExaift Keeper of your Word ^ 
 aPromife^ts a Debt, which you fhou’d 
 pay more carefully than a Bond, becaufc 
 your Honefty and Honour are the Secu¬ 
 rity. Be punctual even in fmall matters, 
 as meeting a Friend, reftoring a Book, 
 returning a Paper, &c. For failing in lit¬ 
 tle things,, will bring you to-fail in great, 
 and always render you fufpedled j fo that 
 you fhall never be confided in, even when*, 
 you mean moft fincerely. 
 
 10. Begin nothing before you know how 
 to finifli it. Had this Advice bein better ob>- 
 (erv’d) there bad not been fo many mjmifsd^ 
 Ruildings about this City as there are. 
 
 11. Be ftudious to preferve your Repu¬ 
 tation v if that be once loft, you are like 
 acanceird Writing, of no Value; and-at 
 beft, youdo but fiirvive your own Funeral. 
 
 Repu- 
 
of MoneyCaUhtng. i6i 
 Reputation is like a Glafe, which being 
 once crack’d, will never be made whole 
 again. 
 
 12. Believe not all that is told, nor tell 
 all that you hear j for if you do, you will 
 not be long without Trouble, but very 
 quickly without Friends. 
 
 i;. Beware of Drunkennefs, left all 
 good Men beware of thee ; where 
 Drunkennefs reigns, there Reafon is an 
 Exile, Vertue a Stranger, and GOD an 
 Enemy,* their Blafphemy is Wit, Oaths 
 are Rhetorick, and Secrets Proclamations. 
 JVooi, when he was drunk, difeoverM 
 that in one hour, which fober, he, had, 
 kept fecret fix hundred Years. 
 
 14. Beware alfo of that filthy Sin of 
 Whoredom, which very often goes along, 
 with Drunkennefs, and as often brings the 
 Gurfe of GOD upon Mens Bodies and, 
 Eftates: For a Whori^ Vt^ornan is a ^eep. 
 Ditchj and be that is ahherred of the Lord, 
 fliall fall therein. 
 
 If. Decline Crowds and Company as 
 much as conveniently you may 5 for fre¬ 
 quent Difeourfe, even of-News, or indif¬ 
 ferent things, which happens upon fuch. 
 Occafions, is fometimes a hinderance aS; 
 well to Vertue as to BufmefS) when leaft 
 intended fo to be, 
 
 16. Dc- 
 
102. the ? leaf ant Art 
 
 1 6 , Detain not Wages from 'dye'Mari' 
 that hath earn’d it, left GOD with-hold 
 his Blefling from thee: If he complains to- 
 thee, hear him j left he complain to Hea¬ 
 ven, vrhere he will be hea^rd : For if lie 
 hunger for thy fake, thou lhalt not prdl- 
 per ior his fake : The Poor Man’s Penny' 
 is a Plague in the rich Man’s Puife. 
 
 17, Pray to GOD at the beginning of 
 all thy Works, that thou may’ft by his 
 help, bring them to a good Conclulion. 
 
 18, Do Injury to no Man, tho’ never 
 fo mean ; for once infeven Years, he may 
 have an Opportunity to do the greateil: 
 Man much Good or Harm. 
 
 39, Hearken not to thofe who wou’d 
 perfwade you to leave your Employment; 
 tor to be fure thaten’t the way to Thrive: 
 Sufpecft therefore thofe that give you fuch 
 Councel, left they have a mind to fucceed 
 you in your Bufinefs. 
 
 20. I et another’s Paflion be a Letfture 
 to thy Reafon ; and let the Shipwrack of 
 his Underftanding be a Sea-mark to- thy 
 Paffion : So lhalt thou gain Strength out' 
 of his Weaknefs, Safety out of his i)anger, 
 ari^'jaife thy felf a Building out of his 
 Ruines, 
 
 21. Let it be your Ambition to be Wife, 
 -3jid your Wifdoin to be Good. 
 
 22. Let 
 
of Money-Catching. i6j 
 
 21. Let thy Eftate ferve thy Occafionsr 
 thy Oceafions thy Self, thy Self thy Soul, 
 and thy Soul thy GOD. 
 
 23. Let there be no idle Perfon In or 
 about your Family i as Beggars, or un-em¬ 
 ployed Servants; but find them all Work 
 and Meat: Look upon them carefuliy^ 
 reprove them without Reproaches, or 
 fierce Railings; be a Mafter, a Miftrefs, 
 and a Friend to them and exad of 
 them to be faithful and diligent. 
 
 24, Avoid going to Law, if poffible; 
 and if you do but fet before you the Vex¬ 
 ations, Dela3''s, (fjuirks, and Expences, 
 in moftof our trifling Suits in Law, ’tis 
 great' odds but you’ll find at the Foot of 
 the Account, that the Play’s not worth the 
 Candle : And I am fure it is no way to 
 Thrive: 
 
 2 Let Ufe and Neceffity be the Rule 
 of all the Provifions you make for the 
 Body : Chufe your Meat, Drink, Appa¬ 
 rel, floufe and Retinue, of fuch kinds, and 
 in fuch proportions, as will moft conduce 
 to rhefe Purpofes. But as for all beyond 
 this, which minifters to Vanity, or to 
 Luxury, retrench and dsfpife it. 
 
 26. Be diligent in Purluance of your 
 Employmenr, fo as not lightlj', or with¬ 
 out reafonable Occafion, to negl€<fl: it, in 
 any 
 
s5ny of thofe times which are ufiially, and 
 by the Cufiom of prudent Perfons, and 
 good Husbands, employed in it. 
 
 27 . Let every one that intends to 
 Thrive, of what Condition foever, avoid 
 Curiofity and' all Enquiry into things that 
 don’t concern them. For all Bufmefsin 
 things that concern us not, is an Employ* 
 ing our Time in things that relate to no 
 Good of ours ■, and fo can tend neither to 
 our Temporal nor Eternal Benefit. But 
 in this Account we are not to reckon our 
 Concerning our felves in the Neceffitie^ 
 of bur Neighbours, for they concern us, 
 as one Member is concern’d in the good of 
 another ,• but it is thofe that go. from Houfe 
 t<).Houfe, andare Tatlcrsand Bufie-bodies, 
 that are the Cankers and Ruft of Idiencls, 
 asldlenefs is the Ruft of Time, which are 
 reproved by the Apoftle in fevere Lan¬ 
 guage, and forbidden in order to this Ex- 
 ercife. Therefore cut off, as much as 
 may be, all the Impertinent and Ufelels 
 Iraployments of your Life, unnecellary 
 and Fantaftick Vifits, long Waitings up¬ 
 on great Perfons, where neither Duty nor 
 Charity obliges us; alfo all vain MectingSi 
 all laborious Trifles, and whatfoever fpei^s 
 much time to no real, civil, religious, or 
 charitable Purpofes. 
 
 a8. Let 
 
of Money•Cfitching, S 
 
 281 Let not your Poverty prefs you ’! 
 upon unlawful Meafores, that you may 
 Thrive; for that is not the way to it ; 
 but rather continue in the honeft Profe- 
 cution of your Bufinefs, and leave the 
 Succefs to GOD; and he will be fute 
 either to cure your Poverty, or at lead to 
 take away the Evil of it; and that’s much 
 more, and alfo far better than what you 
 can expeft by all the ways of Injuftice and 
 E'xtortion. 
 
 29. Lie not at all; neither in a little 
 thing, nor in a great; neither in the Sub- 
 ftance, nor in the Circumftance, neither 
 in Word nor Deed; that is, pretend not 
 what isfalfe, cover not what is true j and 
 let the meafure of your Affirmation or 
 Denial be the underftanding of your Con- 
 traftion j for he that deceives the Buyer 
 or the Seller, by fpeaking what is true in a 
 Senfe not intended or underftood by the 
 other, is a Lyar and a Thief j for in Bar¬ 
 gains you are to avoid not only what is 
 folfe, but that alfo which deceives. 
 
 30. Let no Prices be heightned by the 
 Neceffity or Unsldlfolnefs of the Con- 
 traAor; for the firft is diredUncharita- 
 blenefs to the Perfon, and Injuftice in the 
 thing j (becaufe the Man’s Neceffity could 
 aot enter into the Confideration of the 
 
 of 
 
 A 
 
r. 6 6 The Pleafant Art, 8(C.'" 
 or theCGminodiiy) and the ocher is De¬ 
 ceit and Oppreflion : Much lefs mufl: 
 any Man make Necefiicies^by ingrofTing a 
 Commodity : For fuchPerlons are not only 
 unjuft to thofe Tingle Perfons with whom 
 they Contract, but are alfo Oppreffors of 
 the Publick. 
 
 Make it your Bufinefs rather to 
 comply with the Defires and Commands of 
 others, than to indulge your own InclF 
 nations. Be humble, obedient, and con- 
 defcending.in all your Deportment. Let 
 this.beyourCo.nftant Prayer, That GOD' 
 would perform his Pleafure, dnd difpofe 
 of thee, and all thy Affairs, as to Him Ihall 
 feem moft convenient. And the Man 
 that hath bi ought himfelf to fiicha Teni' 
 per of Mind, may be alTur’d that he is in 
 the ready way both to Thrive, and to have 
 true Content, ; v. 
 
 Jf:a wher. thou thus .lbui>- con:s to ','1^^ 
 
 Set thou Jsjf tuA the Poor dejpije ; 
 
 Be courteous^ getterous uftd frecy 
 Jceordirsg fiill to thj Degjie. . 
 
 From greedy Carhing Cm refrain ; / _ 
 
 Befrugaly and from Wafie ahHa 'm ; 
 
 Enjoy what Providence doth fend ^ 
 
 Be True to GOD, and faithful tv thy Vri§nd. 
 
 is INI S.