Like the dog in the manger, we neither use it ourselves, let others make
use of or enjoy it; part with nothing while we live: for want of disposing
our household, and setting things in order, set all the world together by
the ears after our death. Poor Lazarus lies howling at his gates for a few
crumbs, he only seeks chippings, offals; let him roar and howl, famish, and
eat his own flesh, he respects him not. A poor decayed kinsman of his sets
upon him by the way in all his jollity, and runs begging bareheaded by him,
conjuring by those former bonds of friendship, alliance, consanguinity,
&c., uncle, cousin, brother, father,

------"Per ego has lachrymas, dextramque tuam te,
Si quidquam de te merui, fuit aut tibi quidquam
Dulce meum, misere mei."

"Show some pity for Christ's sake, pity a sick man, an old man," &c., he
cares not, ride on: pretend sickness, inevitable loss of limbs, goods,
plead suretyship, or shipwreck, fires, common calamities, show thy wants
and imperfections,

"Et si per sanctum juratus dicat Osyrim,
Credite, non ludo, crudeles tollite claudum."

Swear, protest, take God and all his angels to witness, _quaere
peregrinum_, thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater, he is not touched
with it, _pauper ubique jacet_, ride on, he takes no notice of it. Put up a
supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, a hospital, a
spittle, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on,
_surdo narras_, he cares not, let them eat stones, devour themselves with
vermin, rot in their own dung, he cares not. Show him a decayed haven, a
bridge, a school, a fortification, etc., or some public work, ride on; good
your worship, your honour, for God's sake, your country's sake, ride on.
But show him a roll wherein his name shall be registered in golden letters,
and commended to all posterity, his arms set up, with his devices to be
seen, then peradventure he will stay and contribute; or if thou canst
thunder upon him, as Papists do, with satisfactory and meritorious works,
or persuade him by this means he shall save his soul out of hell, and free
it from purgatory (if he be of any religion), then in all likelihood he
will listen and stay; or that he have no children, no near kinsman, heir,
he cares for, at least, or cannot well tell otherwise how or where to
bestow his possessions (for carry them with him he cannot), it may be then
he will build some school or h