ent_: [2254]base by nature, and no more esteemed than dogs,
_miseram, laboriosam, calamitosam vitam agunt, et inopem, infelicem,
rudiores asinis, ut e brutis plane natos dicas_: no learning, no knowledge,
no civility, scarce common, sense, nought but barbarism amongst them,
_belluino more vivunt, neque calceos gestant, neque vestes_, like rogues
and vagabonds, they go barefooted and barelegged, the soles of their feet
being as hard as horse-hoofs, as [2255]Radzivilus observed at Damietta in
Egypt, leading a laborious, miserable, wretched, unhappy life, [2256]"like
beasts and juments, if not worse:" (for a [2257]Spaniard in Incatan, sold
three Indian boys for a cheese, and a hundred Negro slaves for a horse)
their discourse is scurrility, their _summum bonum_, a pot of ale. There is
not any slavery which these villains will not undergo, _inter illos
plerique latrinas evacuant, alii culinariam curant, alii stabularios agunt,
urinatores et id genus similia exercent_, &c. like those people that dwell
in the [2258]Alps, chimney-sweepers, jakes-farmers, dirt-daubers, vagrant
rogues, they labour hard some, and yet cannot get clothes to put on, or
bread to eat. For what can filthy poverty give else, but [2259]beggary,
fulsome nastiness, squalor, contempt, drudgery, labour, ugliness, hunger
and thirst; _pediculorum, et pulicum numerum_? as [2260] he well followed
it in Aristophanes, fleas and lice, _pro pallio vestem laceram, et pro
pulvinari lapidem bene magnum ad caput_, rags for his raiment, and a stone
for his pillow, _pro cathedra, ruptae caput urnae_, he sits in a broken
pitcher, or on a block for a chair, _et malvae, ramos pro panibus comedit_,
he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hog, or scraps
like a dog, _ut nunc nobis vita afficitur, quis non putabit insaniam esse,
infelicitatemque_? as Chremilus concludes his speech, as we poor men live
nowadays, who will not take our life to be [2261] infelicity, misery, and
madness?

If they be of little better condition than those base villains,
hunger-starved beggars, wandering rogues, those ordinary slaves, and
day-labouring drudges; yet they are commonly so preyed upon by [2262]
polling officers for breaking the laws, by their tyrannising landlords, so
flayed and fleeced by perpetual [2263]exactions, that though they do
drudge, fare hard, and starve their genius, they cannot live in [2264]some
countries; but what they have is instantly taken from them, the ver