Parsimony

ILLIBERALITY, or Servility, is too great a contempt of glory, proceeding from the like desire to spare expence. An illiberall fellow is he, who if hee should gaine the victory in a Tragick encounter, would consecrate to Bacchus a wooden bowl, wherein his name should be inscribed. He is likewise one, who in a needfull distressed season of the Commonwealth, when by the Citizens there is given a very extraordinary contribution, rising up in a full assembly, is either silent or gets him gone. Being to bestow his daughter, and the sacrifices slaine, he selleth all the flesh, save what is used in holy rites: and he hireth such as are to waite and attend upon the marriage only for that time, which shall diet them selves and eat their own meat. The Captaine of the Galley which himselfe set forth, he layes old planks under his Cabin to spare his own. Coming out of the Marketplace, he puts the flesh he bought in his bosom: and upon any occasion, is forc'd to keep in, till his clothes be made clean. In the Morning, as soon as he riseth, he sweeps the house, and fleas the beds him selfe, and turns the wrong side of his wild cloke outwards.