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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87183	The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.	N. H.	1684 (1684)	Wing H97; ESTC R42683	85,604	194

Gentleman in Surrey that had Land worth two hundred Pounds per annum which he kept in his own hands but running out every year he was necessitated to sell half of it to pay his Debts and Lett the rest to a Farmer for One and Twenty Years Before that Term was expired the Farmer one Day bringing his Rent ask'd him if he would sell his Land Why saith he would you buy it if it please you saith the Farmer How saith he that 's strange Tell me how this comes to pass That I could not live upon twice as much though 't were my own and your upon the one half thereof though you have paid Rent for 't are able to buy it O Sir saith the Farmer but two words made the difference you said Go and I say Come What 's the meaning of that saith the Gentleman Replies the Farmer You lay in Bed or took your pleasure and sent others about your Business And I rose betimes and saw my Business done my self And therefore to this we may well add the consideration of that old English Proverb He that will Thrive Must rise by Five And that other to the same purpose He that lies long in Bed his Estate feels it For doubtless those young Men who must build up their own Fortunes had need be early at it It being not only true Aurora Musis Amica but as true that for all Business and in all Countries the Sun riseth in the Morning Occasion then combining her Head and putting the Lock of successful Opportunity into your hand And therefore Solomon is so positive that the Sluggard shall be clothed with Rags And a more unthrifty Generation the World surely scarce ever knew than those our Days afford who sit up to play till Midnight and lye in Bed till Noon the next Day who give so large an evidence what consequences follow thence being as bare of Money for the most part as the Lybian Desarts of Water-springs or he that is broke of Friends In the next place be not advised to engage in too many Businesses lest some Irons burn nor in too great Affairs lest thy loss prove irreparable Remembring that in a great River Fish is to be found but then take heed you be not drown'd For great Undertakers are like Forelorn Hopes Aut Caesar aut Nullus and in desperate Casts 't is very great odds if they trhow not Ams Ace And on the other hand many Businesses are like the King of Spains Dominions that lye so far asunder the charge of keeping them eats out the profit So that there are very few who thus engage themselves but have by experience found That Man disquieteth himself in vain I once my self to my no small loss had concerns with a person involv'd in much business of whom it may seem that Speech was not meant In the sweat of thy brows thou shalt eat bread for he sweat till he was ready to starve working himself by a World of Business out of many Thousands till at last he was necessitated to take harbour in a Prison But certainly as 't is an happiness to have our business within our reach so is it no less to be our selves without the reach of business I mean to be so much in our own power as not to be perplext with our concerns but do our duty in that way wherein God's providence hath placed us with all our might and leave the whole success to him that doth dispose all things as he will and frequently effects things happy for us by those very means which did molest and grieve us Thus is the prison made a step to raise up Joseph to be Lord of Egypt and so Rome's burning by the Gauls was but the demolishing of Shepherds Cottages that they might be chang'd into much more stately and magnificent Structures So that in truth we know not what we should be pleased at most or troubled what to refuse or what desire When our Wishes many times do prove our Ruine and as the Satyrist observed Evertere domos totas optantibus ipsis Dii faciles For our Prosperity not seldom doth undo us and 't is the peculiar praise of Vespatian that he only of all the Princes that went before him was the better for reigning And I think we can hardly parallel him with any that came after him unless it be our Henry the Fifth 'T is therefore excellent and much more conducing to our Peace to entertain Occurrents with indifference as in uncertainty to give our judgment of them whether they 're good or hurtful to us And like the Hollanders who though the greatest Traders in the World and most industrious yet Starda saith of them and he an Enemy That whatsoever Gain or Loss befalls them they pass it by with such a little sence of joy or grief Vt alienis interesse non sua curare credas You 'ld think they were but only Lookers on of others business and not concerned in it as their own Let me offer this also to your practice that you be cunning and honest which agrees with our Saviours Directions Be ye wise as Serpents and innocent as Doves for that cunning which hath no respect to Right is like dealing i● Fire-works or working in a Mine whereby the Enemy is not always endamaged but the Wise are often taken in their own Craftiness If Men be disposed like that Roxelana to be wittily wicked the Devil that old Serpent and Deceiver will furnish them with Arts but he commonly deals with them as he doth with Witches with whom he always plays a slippery trick in the Conclusion and they whose whole Life was but a Cheat are cheated themselves most miserable at the last For in the observation which I have made I never knew any of these Craft-masters that in the winding up of their Affairs came out as they went in but like the subtil Chymists with their Policies and Tricks when they look for Gold are blown up in Dust or like the Politick Count S. Paul in the time of Lewis the Eleventh who spun so fine a Thread of subtil Contrivances between that King and Charles the Warlike Duke of Burgundy that while he was trusted neither by the one nor the other the end of his Cunning was his own Confusion When on the other hand Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace GOD giving his Blessing to the Honestly-wise and prospering those Designs which like the quiet Herd lye in the Pail of Integrity when that Rambling Deer whom no Fence of Equity holds is in continual fear and proves a lean poor Rascal CHAP. III. Directions to young Shopkeepers and others Tradesmen about their setting up in the World when they come out of their Apprentiships MY First Advice to you as to this is That you look upon this Business as that which deserves much Avice There being not a few who by their haste and precipitation in this affair have ruined