Et quamvis perjuris erit, sine gente, cruentus, they may go to heaven through the eye of a needle, if they will themselves, they may be canonized for Saints, they shall be honorably interred in Mausolean tombs, commended by Poets, registred in histories, have temples and statues erected to their names, — è manibus illis — nascentur violæ. —

If he be bountifull in his life, & liberall at his death, he shall have one to sweare, as he did by Claudius the Emperour in Tacitus, he saw his soul go to Heaven, and be miserably lamented at his funeral. Ambubaiarum collegia, &c. Trimalcionis Topanta in Petronius rectâ in cœlum abiit, went right to Heaven: a base quean, thou wouldest have scorned once in thy misery to have a penny from her; and why? modio nummos metiit, she measured her mony by the bushell.

These prerogatives do not usually belong to rich men, but to such as are most part seeming rich, let him have but a good outside, he carries it, and shall be adored for a God, as Cyrus was amongst the Persians, ob splendidum apparatum, for his gay tyres; now most men are esteemed according to their cloathes.

In our gullish times, whom you peradventure in modesty would give place to, as being deceived by his habit, and presuming him some great worshipful man, beleeve it, if you shall examin his estate, he will likely be proved a serving man of no great note, my Ladies Taylor, his Lordships Barber, or some such gull, a Fastidius Brisk, Sir Petronell Flash, a meer out-side. Only this respect is given him, that wheresoever he comes, he may call for what he will, and take place by reason of his outward habit.

But on the contrary, if he be poor, Prov. 15.15. all his days are miserable, he is under hatches, dejected, rejected and forsaken, poor in purse, poor in spirit; prout res nobis fluit, ita & animus se habet; Mony gives life & soul.

Though he be honest, wise, learned, well deserving, noble by birth, and of excellent good parts: yet in that he is poor, unlikely to rise, come to honour, office or good means, he is contemned, neglected, Frustra sapit, inter literas esurit, amicus molestus. If he speak, what babler is this? Ecclus. his nobility without wealth, is projecta vilior algâ, and he not esteemed: Nos viles pulli nati infelicibus ovis,

if once poor, we are metamorphosed in an instant, base slaves, villains and vile drudges; for to be poor, is to be a knave, a foole, a wretch, a wicked, an odious fellow, a common eye-sore, say poor and say all: they are borne to labour, to misery, to carry burdens like juments, pistum stercus comedere with Ulysses companions, and as Chremilus objected in Aristophanes, salem lingere, lick salt, to empty jakes, fay channels, carry out dirt and dunghils, sweep chimnies, rub horse heels, &c.

I say nothing of Turks Gally-slaves, which are bought and sold like juments, or those African Negroes, or poor Indian drudges, Qui indies hinc inde deferendis oneribus occumbunt, nam quod apud nos boves & asini vehunt, trahunt, &c. id omne misellis Indis, &c. they are ugly to behold; and though earst spruce, now rusty and squalid, because poor, immundas fortunas æquum est squalorem sequi, it is ordinarily so.

Others eat to live, but they live to drudge, servilis & misera gens nihil recusare audet, a servile generation, that dare refuse no task.

— Heus tu Dromo, cape hoc flabellum, ventulum hinc facito dum lavamus, Sirrah blow winde upon us while we wash, and bid your fellow get him up betimes in the morning, be it fair or foul, he shall run 50 miles a foot to morrow, to carry me a Letter to my mistres, Socia ad pistrinam, Socia shall tarry at home and grinde mault all day long, Tristan thresh.

Thus are they commanded, being indeed some of them as so many footstools for rich men to tread on, blocks for them to get on horse back, or as wals for them to piss on. They are commonly such people, rude, silly, superstitious Ideots, nasty, unclean, lowsy, poor, dejected, slavishly humble:

and as Leo Afer observes of the commonalty of Africk, natura viliores sunt, nec apud suos duces majore in precio quam si canes essent: base by nature, and no more esteemed then dogs, miseram, laboriosam, calamitosam vitam agunt, & inopem, infælicem, rudiores asinis, ut è brutis planè natos dicas: no learning, no knowledg, no civility, scarce common sense, nought but barbarism amongst them;

belluino more vivunt, neq; calceos gestant, neq; vestes, like rogues and vagabonds, they go bare-footed and bare-legged, the soals of their feet being as hard as horse hoofs, as Radzivilus observed at Damiata in Egypt, leading a laborious, miserable, wretched, unhappy life, like beasts and juments, if not worse: (for a Spaniard in Iucatan, sold three Indian boyes for a Cheese, and an hundred Negro slaves for an horse) their discourse is scurrility, their summum bonum, a pot of Ale.