gold lace, must needs be a
gentleman.

2237. Est sanguis utque spiritus pecunia mortalibus.

2238. Euripides.

2239. Xenophon. Cyropaed. l. 8.

2240. In tenui rara est facundia panno. Juv.

2241. Hor. "more worthless than rejected weeds."

2242. Egere est offendere, et indigere scelestum esse. Sat. Menip.

2243. Plaut. act. 4.

2244. Nullum tam barbarum, tam vile munus est, quod non lubentissime obire
velit gens vilissima.

2245. Lausius orat. in Hispaniam.

2246. Laet. descrip. Americiae.

2247. "Who daily faint beneath the burdens they are compelled to carry from
place to place: for they carry and draw the loads which oxen and
asses formerly used," &c.

2248. Plautus.

2249. Leo. Afer. ca. ult. l. 1. edunt non ut bene vivant, sed ut fortiter
laborent. Heinsius.

2250. Munster de rusticis Germaniae, Cosmog. cap. 27. lib. 3.

2251. Ter. Eunuch.

2252. Pauper paries factus, quem caniculae commingant.

2253. Lib. 1. cap ult.

2254. Deos omnes illis infensos diceres: tam pannosi, famefracti, tot
assidue malis afficiuntur, tanquam pecora quibus splendor rationis
emortuus.

2255. Peregrin. Hieros.

2256. Nihil omnino meliorem vitam degunt, quam ferae in silvis, jumenta in
terris. Leo Afer.

2257. Bartholomeus a Casa.

2258. Ortelius in Helvetia. Qui habitant in Caesia valle ut plurimum
latomi, in Oscella valle cultrorum fabri fumarii, in Vigetia sordidum
genus hominum, quod repurgandis caminis victum parat.

2259. I write not this any ways to upbraid, or scoff at, or misuse poor
men, but rather to condole and pity them by expressing, &c.

2260. Chremilus, act. 4. Plaut.

2261. Paupertas durum onus miseris mortalibus.

2262. Vexat censura columbas.

2263. Deux ace non possunt, et sixeinque solvere nolunt; Omnibus est notum
quater tre solvere totum.

2264. Scandia, Africa, Lithuania.

2265. Montaigne, in his Essays, speaks of certain Indians in France, that
being asked how they liked the country, wondered how a few rich men
could keep so many poor men in subjection, that they did not cut
their throats.

2266. Augustas animas animoso in pectore versans.

2267. "A narrow breast conceals a narrow soul."

2268. Donatus vit. ejus.

2269. "Publius Scipio, Laelius and Furius, three of the most distinguished
noblemen at that day in Rome, were of so little service to him, that
he could scar