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Wines would be less set by, if our own lands were full of Vineyards: Those things that Nature hath hedged from us, we long and languish for; when Manna it self, because it lies at our doors, is loathed.¹ Virtutem praesentem ferè in nostris odimus; Sublatam ex oculis procul quaerimus inuidi. The more spreading good things are, the more thought vile: and (though against that old and true ^*rule) the community ⟨p. 99⟩shall detract from the commodity. It is the perverseness of our natures, till sanctification hath put a new nature into us,³ that Gods yoke is too heavy for our shoulders: we cannot draw in the gears of obedience. We can travel a whole day after our dogs; but if authority should charge us to measure so many miles, how often would we complain of weariness? The Bird can sit out the day-measuring Sun, see his rise and fall without irksomeness, whiles she is hatching her Eggs; if her nest were a Cage, with what impatience would she lament so long a bondage! So the Usurer, though he began his first bag with the first hour, and pulls not off his hands or his eyes, till the eye of Heaven is ashamed of it, and denies further light, he is not weary: let him sit at Church two hours, the seat is uneasy, his bones ache, either a Cushion to fall a sleep with, or he will be gone. That Christ may justly and fitly continue that his reproof upon such: Can ye not watch with me one hour?⁴

Wines would bee lesse set by, if our owne lands were full of Vineyards: Those things that Nature hath hedged from vs, wee long and languish for; when Manna it selfe, because it lies at our dores, is loathed.¹ Virtutem praesentem ferè in nostris odimus; Sublatam ex oculis procul quaerimus inuidi. The more spreading good things are, the more thought vile: and (though against that olde and true ^*rule) the communitie ⟨p. 99⟩