my selfe A Bullocke or young Steere when he is to bee tamed they first halter his legges throwing him downe on the ground then they fall a shooing of him after that they binde a rope or a cord to one of his hornes which they suffer him to traile after him for some fewe daies and when they are minded to bring his necke to the yoake they yoake him with an old Oxe that hath beene long vsed to the plough and so by little and little disposing him thereunto they teach him by these degrees to beginne to draw handsomely and in the end to be as perfect as the best of them That young man therefore that hath a desire to be old let him leaue to follow my steps and let him striue to subdue his passions let him prepare and dispose himselfe to labour and in dispight of his owne will let him strongly struggle and wrastle with his idle and foolish desires and throw them flat on their backes to the ground that they may neuer rise vp any more to make resistance against him And when he hath thus gotten them downe vnder him let him binde them fast with that double twisted cord of Patience and Humility and let him traile after him for some certaine daies these his strange and dangerous appetites spending his time in vertuous exercises and many shall not passe ouer his head before hee be brought to bow his necke to that holy yoake of repentance and by yoaking him-selfe with good company hee shall quickly be inured to the plough wherewith he shall breake vp the earth of his euill inclinations But let no man thinke that hee shall bee able to doe this at the first dash and that once trying what he can doe shall be sufficient to make him grow perfect Some I know will not sticke to tell me I would doe this and I would doe that my will is to it but c. Let him speake this to such another as himselfe and to one that is of the like quality and condition as he is For I know well enough already that he is not willing to doe this nor to doe that For they that are willing indeed vse other more effectuall meanes And nothing is hard to them that will set them-selues hard to it Peraduenture such a one thinkes or expects that God should open the heauens and miraculously strike him to the ground as he did Saint Paul But let him not looke to haue the like course to be taken with him lest he be accounted a foole for his labour God threw him to the ground and humbled him sufficiently when he afflicted him with sicknes when he laid troubles vpon him and when he suffered him to be toucht in his good name if either then or now thou wouldst accept of grace while it is offered thee thou shalt be sure to finde it But thou wast neuer willing to entertaine these good motions much lesse to humble thy selfe with Saint Paul and to city out with him Domine quid vis vt faciam Lord what wilt thou that I doe What is thy diuine will and pleasure Thou wilt not like Paul be for God and yet thou look'st that God should be for thee And if he dealt thus with Saint Paul it was because God knew the earnest desire that he had to know and search out the Truth and that it was his zeale to the Law that did thus ouersway him the current whereof being turn'd another way he would be as feruent for the Gospell And you can instance but in a few that haue beene saued by a bare intention without any good worke These â—…o are to concurre in one intention and action I say if we haue any time left vnto vs for action or wherein we may doe any good worke And then shall a â—…me intention of amendment of life and a hearty sorrow for our sins past be accounted a good worke when the night of death shall sodainly ouertake vs and shut vs vp in darknesse But hauing day enough to worke and labour in the Lords Uineyard both these ought to goe together I meane intention and action For neither the spade alone nor the hand alone can digge and dresse the ground but hand and spade must both worke together But who hath put me into this theame Was not I in Florence euen now to my great content Thither doe I returne againe I assure thee that the more I walked vp and downe that Citie the more desirous I was to plant there my Pillars and not to seeke for a Plus vltrà For it was euen as I would haue wisht it to be all very beautifull and delightsome And if therein resided either flattery or enuie I tooke no great heed thereof but let it runne to others account for I was none of those that were comprehended in that Decree I had nothing to doe like Iudas with the almes of the poore nor could any preiudice thereby come vnto me being that I pretended nothing in Court And if they would any way haue holpen me I had no need to vse them Or had I stood in need of them I would not haue made any vse of them they euermore seeming vnto me the greatest meanes of mischiefe that euer came yet within my knowledge For one onely flatterer is sufficient alone of him-selfe to ouerthrow a Commonwealth if not a whole Kingdome Happy is that King and fortunate that Prince whose Subiects serue him for loue and who out of his wisedome leaues now and then an eare open to the peoples complaints as also their aduice for onely by this meanes shall he come to know truthes whereby hee may redresse those things that are amisse and keepe off flatterers from abusing his eares There would I haue liu'd all the daies of my life and haue past away the time like a Duke had I had wherewithall But I was in a manner blowne vp and all my money was almost spent I need not to confirme this vnto you with an oath for you may very well if you will beleeue me on my bare word The Riuer now began to grow drie and my store to faile me for Del monton que sacau y no ponen presto lo descomponen Pull from your heap and put nothing to it you or your heape if not both may rue it So that my moneys still going out and none comming in if I should haue staid any longer there I should quickly haue runne my-selfe out at the heeles and it would haue beene a great disreputation for me to haue come in a horsebacke and to goe out a foote I thought it good counsell to vphold mine honor and to depart from thence both to my credit and content before that being forced thereunto by necessity I should come to discouer my wants and be bound to stay still there for lacke of meanes to be gone I acquainted Sayavedra with this my purpose and plainly opened my minde vnto him For by this time I
Sotana in which I walked vp and downe the streets All mens eyes were cast vpon mee as well for that I was a stranger as likewise in regard I was well clad and of a presence not to be despised They askt my seruant who I was Hee told them Don Iuan de Guzman a Gentleman of Seuilla And when I heard them inquire after mee I would pop vp my head stretching out my necke some what more then ordinary thinking vvith my selfe that I had some ten pound vveight of Bread more in my Belly then I had before so Peacocke-like was I blowne vp with Pride and such store of this puffe-past of vaine-glory had I swallowed downe my throat Hee told them that I vvas newly come from Rome They demanded farther of him if I were rich because they saw me come from thence in a differing fashion from the rest for they that goe to the Court of Rome and to other Princes Courts are like vnto those that go to the vvarres who thinke all the world must now bee theirs and that they haue already finished what they went for vvith which vaine hopes they vsing to flatter themselues they lash out into extraordinary expences vpon the vvay as likewise in the Court till the Court leaues them so curtail'd that they haue scarce ere a ragge left them to couer their breech returning home afterwards vveary in their bodies poore in their purses discontented in their mindes and driuen to that extreame want that they must either almost starue or begge their bread They goe thither fresh and liuely flush of money and rich in cloathes whom I can liken to nothing better then to the fish called the Tunny vvhich when it is full of spawne is also full of fish fat and faire to see to and is very good meate but vvhen her Spawne is gone from her shee turnes lanke leane and vnseasonable prouing as vnprofitable to the stomacke as it is vnpleasing to the Palate They likewise enquired of him whether I were to continue there for any long time or past onely along as a Traueller taking it in my way To all which questions Sayavedra gaue such answers as I could my selfe haue wisht Telling them that I was the only sonne of a widow-gentle-woman of very good quality being a wonderfull wealthy dame which was wife to a certain Gentleman of Genoa and that I was come thither to expect certaine Letters and dispatches and then to returne backe againe to Rome and that in the interim I would recreate my selfe here in Genoa taking much pleasure in the sight of this statâ—…ly City for that I knew not when I should make my returne nor for what part or whither I should euer haue the like opportunity to see it againe The Inne where I lay was the best in all the Towne and is commonly called L'Hosteria di santa Marta whither the most part of your Noblemen and Gentlemen did vsually resort There wee remained making merry and spending our money without doing our selues any good at all in point of profit nor did we as yet goe about it And in keeping thus our ground wee came to gaine ground The Clocke doth not alwayes strike but staies till its houre comes and when by a little and a little the time creepes on that is limited thereunto why then it strikes I playd now and then but not for much money with some other guests that were in the house more for company sake and to passe away the time then any thing else not vsing any other helpe then mine owne fortune and skill in gaming Sayavedra had now no hand in the businesse nor did I vse to set his plough a worke saue in deepe and fat grounds where there was hope of a plentifull haruest I kept him for Holidayes his attendance was when there was a great feast and a full boord but for such poore pittances as these not worth the sitting downe for I was well content hee should spare his labor For when the losings or the gettings could not be much the best course then me thought was to proceed plainly and sincerely Yet when I plaid small game I went along with a leaden foot marking and obseruing this and that other Card and if Fortune did not fauour me and that my crosse-carding was such that I could not light on a lucky encounter I would giue off with a little losse but if the wind blew faire and that I found good fortune was comming towards me I neuer left following my good lucke till I had swept vnto me all the money on the boord And it so fell out that hauing one day wonne a matter of a hundred Crowns and somewhat more it was a Captaines hap that had the command of a Gally to sit by me who I perceiu'd lik't very well of my manner of play and was very glad that I had got the money and reading in his lookes that he had no great store of Crownes in his purse but was rather in extreame want and necessity I gaue him sixe Doblones of two which in that coniuncture considering his pouerty seemed vnto him to be sixe thousand There is a time when one single Royall is more to a man then a hundred nay a thousand perhaps at another time will not doe him so much good For the which he made me such a thankfull acknowledgement as if the fauour I had done him had beene much more then it was or some matter of greater moment And this fell out very happily for me for hauing afterwards vnderstood from him-selfe of what disease he was sicke and where his griefe lay at that instant was mine owne remedy likewise represented vnto me and quickly found out that I was to make him the needle that must knit my net In a word I effected what I desired He spends nothing who buyes that he hath need of I distributed likewise some few Crownes amongst the rest of the standers by to make them the better deuoted and affectioned towards mee and that I might leaue euery man well pleas'd and contented Insomuch that by this my affable franke and bountifull carriage I grew into that credit and good opinion amongst them that I had wonne their hearts and got the good wâ—…ll and loue of all men and it is an old saying That hee that sowes well reapes well And I can assure you that as many as conuersed with me would haue hazarded their liues for me if need had beene Wherewith I found my selfe so iocond my body so lightsome my heart so comforted my blood so cleare and my spirits so quickned that my cheekes were as fresh and red as the Rose and mine eyes did sparkle and lookt so merrily as if they had laught for ioy This Captaine was called Fauelo not that this was his proper name but because it was giuen him by a certaine Mistresse of his whom hee sometimes serued which he was willing still to retaine in remembrance of her
sence and seekes to ouerthrow his well-deserued reputation laying Nets to intrap him that he may be the only Commander ioyning with his enemies and falling crosse with his friends that he may bring the dance before his owne doore and raise himselfe by the others ruine proposing to himselfe by this preposterous dealing to put himselfe into a better fortune And to effect this his vnruly desire he will seeke out a thousand fetches and as many winding Pipes will he lay before hand to bring the water to his owne Conduict He would make himselfe like vnto the highest and place his throne in the North and suffer no man to sit by him or to be his equall Such men as these exercise their voice only in the seruice of the King not sticking to crie out This and this will make much for his Maiesties seruice but their workes and their actions are directed to their owne good Like vnto that day-labourer who lifts vp his armes to heauen but strikes his Mattocke into the ground These make warres at their pleasure breake Leagues when they list failing in their Obligation ruining the Common-wealth robbing men of their Estates and in the end damning their owne soules How many errors haue beene committed How many braue Commanders lost how many Armies vtterly ouerthrowne the fault whereof is laid vpon him that doth least deserue the blame And the sole cause of this is because these men will forsooth haue it so that this ill shall make for their good For if things should succeed well why then it should goe ill with them This is the common course now adaies and this makes all out of ioynt and causes such confusion in the world Will you see Sir to what poore passe our ill fortune hath brought vs that those braue cloathes gallant Feathers and glorious colours things that put life and spirit into a Soldiers heart to make him venture couragiously vpon all difficulties to hew out his way with his Sword and to vndertake any braue and noble enterprize in seeing vs thus adorned we are disgraced in Spaine our Habit scorned and our selues flouted at Thinking for sooth that we must walke the streets in blacke like a companie of Soliciters or like some Seruitour or poore Scholler that waites vpon another and hath not a Gowne to his backe to hide his pittifull raggs or to couer our totterd cloathes as your Students vse to doe with blacke foot-cloathes that the old rotten Saddle vnderneath may not be seene Now are we quite downe the winde and neuer so much as now For those that should most honour vs doe least fauour vs. The only bare name of a Spaniard which heretofore did affright the enemie with the reputation of that one word made the whole world to tremble now for our sinnes-sake the glorie of that is in a manner lost and gone And we are so falne off from what we were that we are not able to doe that now with our swords which before we might haue carried with our words Yet such as wee haue beene we are and shall be still It is God that must make vs to acknowledge these our errours and that must worke amendment in those that are the cause thereof going in that course wherein now they runne against their King against the Lawes of the Land against their Countrie and against themselues I need not Sennor Don Iuan to produce any other witnesse then the present times for the truth of what I haue spoken and to proue vnto you that the maine cause of all your great mischiefes in a State is a Fauorites inwardnesse with his King suffring no man to Priuar or to be able to doe any thing but himselfe led on with the greedinesse of his owne priuate gaine From this his ill-imployd Greatnesse groweth hatred from hatred enuie from enuie dissention and from dissention euill order from whence you may inferre those other inconueniences that may follow thereupon Let it not trouble you Sir that we are now to march hence In Italie you shall finde another kinde of world and here I passe my word vnto you that I will make you an Ancient Which albeit it be a meaner place then your merits may challenge yet it may serue as a step to aduance you higher I gaue him many thankes for this his friendly offer We tooke our leaues hee was very desirous to goe home alone I earnestly intreated him that I might waite vpon him to his Lodging but he would by no meanes consent thereunto The next day following the Companie marched away without any stay till they came neere vnto the Sea-coast the Captaine spending liberally vpon my Purse We staid waiting there for the comming of the Gallies but three moneths were almost spent before we could haue any newes of them In which time and that which was already past my Purse had spit his venome and my rents began to faile me My continuance at play did likewise put a helping hand to my speedier dispatch so that I was now quite out of Cash and all my money was gone not all in one day but all at all these seuerall times I was as your old prattling Gossips vse to say reduced backe againe to my former state and might walke as I did before with a white Cudgell vnder mine arme How much did I then risent my former follies How angrie was I growne with my selfe What amendment did I propose vnto my selfe now that I had not so much as one single pennie left me in my Purse How many shifts did I vse to conserue my selfe when I did not know against what tree to leane Who forced me to fall in loue without discretion Who made me turne Gallant without moderation Who taught me to spend without gouernment To what end was I so free in my play so franke in my Lodging and so prodigall with my Captaine Quanto se halla trasero quien ensilla muy delantero How often is he cast behinde that is first in the Saddle What a shame is it for a man to follow his delights What a basenesse to be captiuated by his pleasures I was readie to run besides my selfe and was almost out of my little wits that when I had put my selfe in so good a Predicament I could not hold me there and keepe my selfe well while it was well with me Now in regard as well of my youth as these my youthfull vanities I was no more esteemed or respected of any The friends that I had in my prosperitie the free table that I kept with the Captaine the Alferez place and the ensigne that he told me he would bestow vpon me it seemed that they were all strooken with a sudden lightening which had burnt and consum'd them They past as an arrow that makes his quick-feathered-flight thorow the aire like a Thunder-bolt that strikes to death before it be discerned or to the twinkling of the eye which opens and shuts in an instant When my moneyes fell
And therefore thou must striue to imitate that discreet sonne in Law who knowes by the sweetnesse of his behauiour and courteous carriage how to gaine the good will of his hard-laced father in Law and to draw him gently along to pay his house-rent to bestow vpon him his dyet and his lodging to put money in his Purse and for an vp-shot a faire wife in his bed And these are those father in Lawes which like slaues and common iesters breed serue and entertaine their children I am now imbark't I haue set foot a Ship-boord I cannot goe backe The Dice are throwne my promise is past and I cannot recall it I haue begun and I must goe on The Subiect is meane and base the beginning small But that which I intend to treat of if like the Oxe thou wilt ruminate thereupon and chew the Cud suffring it to passe from thy stomacke to thy mouth it may proue important graue and great I will doe all that I can to satisfie thy desire knowing that I should haue rather giuen thee trouble then content in vnfolding one part of my life and hyding the other from thee I perswade my selfe that many will or haue already said it Better had it beene that God had neuer giuen it thee and by consequence that thou hadst neuer spoke of it for being notoriously bad and wicked it had beene better for thy selfe to haue smothered it and for others that they had not knowne it Thou art farre wide of the truth thou hast no good ground for that thou say'st much lesse therefore can I be perswaded that thou meanest well or that thy drift herein is so faire and honest as thou wouldst seeme to make shew of But I am rather afraid and doe shrewdly suspect that because they touch thee to the quicke the very wagging of the rod doth though it ne're come neere thee much affright thee thine owne guiltines makes thee to shrinke and it is the gall'd backe that makes the Horse winse before the Saddle touch him There is no Disciplinante that whips himselfe in the holy weeke that doth at any time complaine of his owne lashing nor doth halfe so much feele the smart of those stripes which he giues himselfe as he doth the paine and anguish of anothers hand when he comes to dresse and cure his wounds I either tell thee truthes or lyes Not lyes Would to God they were lyes For I know that out of thine owne naturall inclination thou wouldst bee well content to heare them nay to play and champe vpon that bitt it would make thee carry a white mouth pleasing thy selfe with the some and froth of vntruthes But I deliuer truths vnto thee and these are as bitter Pils vnto thy Palate Thou findest fault with them because they lay open thy faults Only displeased because they please thee not If thou finde thy selfe sound and in health and thy neighbour sicke and weake if the Lightning shall light vpon another mans house and thine owne scape the flame thou wouldst the better beare it so as thou be left vntoucht no morsell is vnsauory to thy mouth all is Phesant and Partridge and I shall be well receiued and kindely entertained by thee But that thou mayst not like the Eele slip out of my hands I will seeke out some Fig-leaues against these your slippery tricks I will hold you fast while I haue you you shall not for this once so easily as you thinke escape my hands I tell thee if thou art willing to heare me if thou wilt not thou mayst choose that this generall confession that I make this publike opening of my Packe laying before thee all my Knacks and my Trinkets I doe not therefore shew these things vnto thee that thou shouldst either imitate me or my euill actions but rather that when thou shalt come to know them thou mayst learne thereby to correct thine owne If thou seest me falne because I was wilfull and would not be ordred looke thou so well to thy steps that thou mayst hate and auoyd those occasions that wrought my fall Set not thy foot where thou hast seene me slip before thee but let my trippings and my stumblings serue as so many markes to make thee more wary For thou art a man mortall as I am and peraduenture neither stronger nor wiser then my selfe Looke well into thy selfe runne ouer very leisurely and carefully the house of thy Soule and see if thou haue not made there euen in the greater and better part of it Dung-hils of filth and all manner of beastlinesse and doe not sift and prie so narrowly into thy neighbours to see if thou canst finde but the feather of some bird at the foot of the Stayres whereat thou mayst picke a quarrell But heere I know thou wilt tell me that I preach vnto thee and that hee is a foole that will seeke his cure from a sicke Physician And that hee that cannot helpe himselfe can hardly giue health to others What wholsome Medicine or good Cordiall can a man haue from a Vipers tooth or the sting of a Scorpion How shall he that is ill himselfe aduise another not to be ill I doe not denie that I am such a one as thou sayst But that will befall me with thee which betideth some nimble and cunning Caruer at his Lords table who curiously cutteth vp the Brawne the wing or the legge of some dainty Fowle and hauing respect to the qualitie of the Guests whom he is to serue giues euery man his seuerall Plate studying to please and content them all They all eate all rest satisfied and well contented whilest he himselfe goes away both weary and hungry At mine owne cost and paines I discouer shelfes quick-sands and dangerous rockes vnto thee to the end that thou mayst not fall vpon them and dash thy selfe in pieces against them or runne thy selfe on ground where there is neuer any hope of comming off Your Arsenicke is not altogether vnprofitable but that it will serue for some good vse or other it is worth money and it is sold in Apothecaries shops And though it be bad to eate as it may be applyed it will proue good In a word with it those Wormes and Vermine are poysoned which bring hurt and preiudice to mans body My example might serue as Treacle to a Common-wealth if these fierce beasts that gouerne it were poysoned not excusing house-keepers though neuer so much in apparance seeming familiar and friendly vnto vs as being one of the worst qualities that they haue For figuring forth our selues vnto them to be men of flesh and bloud kinde-hearted and subiect vnto passions wee deposit our secrets in their bosomes and trust them with all that we haue as relying on their saith and their loue and they cunningly shed seigned teares in a seeming commiseration of our miseries when in the meane while not-withstanding they rend our flesh teare our very sinewes from the bone
that euer was for vs when hee offered him-selfe in his beloued Sonne Therefore if thou shalt make a bad choyce thou wilt haue the worst of it For if thou shalt reserue the better for thy selfe and giue the worser vnto God he will take them both away from thee so that both thy eyes shall be put out hee will bereaue thee of the bad because hee was not good enough for him and of the good because thou thoughtst him too good You must not change bridles least you spoyle the horses mouthes Euery horse must haue his owne bit What need a continent man to marry Or a lasciuious wanton be made a Priest The one is not so fit for a wife And I am sure the other altogether vnfit for the Church There are many habitations in heauen and euery one hath his right place appointed for him Let euery man take that way that may direct him to his saluation and let him not goe any other way lest hee may chance to lose him-selfe and thinking he treads in the right path neuer sees his desire nor that which hee pretends It were a pretty kinde of ouer-sight in me if being to goe from Madrid to Barajas I should take ouer Segouia bridge and passe on to Guadarrama Or being to goe for Valladolid I should make for Siguença Doest thou not see how thou art out of thy way Doest thou not perceiue thy folly Let a Virgin be a Virgin A marryed man a marryed man Let the Continent abstaine The Religious be religious And let euery one goe on in the way that is set before him without turning to the right hand or to the left I was resolued to be a Church-man and for no other reason in the world but onely to repayre a broken fortune to fill my belly and to be free from my Creditors who as soone as my ten yeares were out were to come vpon my backe With this I finely stopt their mouthes shut the gap whereat they should enter and left them to shake their eares I sold my house for almost as much as it cost me For albeit men doe vsually sell houses to great losse yet mine yeelded mee little lesse then what it stood mee in For I did value it at somewhat the dearer rate because it was bettered by the bordering buildings that were round about it which time had wrought for mee When the Scriuener had drawne the writings and that they were ready to be sealed and I to receiue my money I said That before I proceeded therein any farther wee would goe to his house that was the publike Officer for the rating of mens goods that we might haue a Licence from him vnder his hand requiring his confirmation of the Contract that was betweene vs and that wee might conclude with him touching the sessing of the rent as also the twentieth part that was to goe out and to be leuyed vpon the sale of the house When we came thither and had cast vp our reckonings we found that the sessment came not to aboue six Royals but the twentieth part to better then a thousand fiue hundred Mee thought this was somewhat cruell and beyond all reason of policie that I should giue him such a great summe of money which amounted to more then the Fee-simple of the ground whereon I built it I stood vpon it and was very loth to pay him so much but because my standing out might haue hindred the sale thereof and so I might haue let slip the occasion of doing my selfe good I paid those duties but with protestation to require the same againe by course of Iustice as a thing which in all Law and Conscience hee could not duely challenge of me The Master of the Office began to laugh at me as if I had vttered some famous foolery And it might very well be so but as then it did not seeme so vnto me I askt him why hee laught He told mee at my pretension And that he would returne me all my money againe on condition that I would but giue him halfe a Royall euery day till I had sentence on my side in this sute I was about to haue accepted of it it seeming to my vnderstanding that an ill custome ought not so farre to ouer-sway reason but that vpon discouering the cunning and deceit vsed therein it would easily be abrogated and broken Nor would this which I speake of beene my case alone but all the whole Kingdome would haue put in their plea into the Courts of Iustice and as well for their priuate profit as the publike good would haue declar'd them-selues in my fauour to the end that there might be some order taken for the redressing of so great a wrong I was not so wide of the marke nor did I goe vpon such weake grounds but that with that which I then knew I thought I should be able strongly to maintayne my opinion it seeming vnto mee scientiam certam a setled knowledge the certaintie whereof could not be gaine-said It might haue so fallen out that I might haue defended it with a little coste and peraduenture I might haue spent much in it and so much that not onely this one but all others of this kinde might haue beene vtterly ouerthrowne As it did once happen with certaine Sessings that were a-foot in those dayes for that it was found out at last that there was in the setting of those rates a certaine kinde of Vsury which our State doth not allow The cause which moued mee to this Defence was because I saw it grew out of the discourse of naturall Reason considering with my selfe that onely from thence all Lawes had their beginning But because this businesse crept in by degrees and was not so currant and common in the world as now it is it was not much stood vpon But if wee shall a little more curiously search into it and the abuse thereof were well lookt into I doubt not but it would appeare so harsh and sower to most mens tastes that it would in some great part if not wholly be reformed For suppose a thing not to bee worth any more then that which is giuen for it and that this which is giuen ought to bee limited finite and certaine Now if to mee they should sell that plot of ground for a thousand Royals with two Royals of perpetuall rent vpon it and that there is not any man that will giue more for it nor indeed is worth any more and that I haue spent in building a house vpon it three thousand Ducats at least in good money If it bee a truth and a Rule in Law that no man ought to make himselfe rich with another mans wealth why should this prolling Officer inrich himselfe out of my moneyes For that this which giues this valew and inhances the price of the ground is mine owne peculiar purse and those moneyes I laid out my selfe is a cleare case and cannot bee denyed