A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes…

Secondly, they are pernicious to men of all sorts and conditions, unless it be to a few of those few which have corn to sell. And to this point let them speak which can speak by experience, and experience hath taught, not long sithence, the greater number of housekeepers, that the higher the prices of corn do rise, the lower the states of families fall. And the sellers of victuals do the more fill their purses with money, the less the poor servants fill their bellies with meat. Ask the traveller by the ⟨p. 92⟩way; ask the labourer in the country; ask the tradesmen in the town; ask the common sort, yea almost any sort of inhabitants in the city, and which of all these will say, or truly may say, it is no burden to us that things are no cheaper? A great part of their care is to make provision for household: a great part of their labour is swallowed up in provision: a great part of time is too little for their labour. So that their care is more, their labour greater, their commons shorter, and state much weaker. Many be restrained from doing further good: many be compelled to lessen former family: many thereby be brought to manifold inconveniences, more than we express or think of.

Secondly, they are pernicious to men of all sorts and conditions, vnlesse it be to a few of those few which haue corne to sell. And to this point let them speake which can speake by experience, and experience hath taught, not long sithence, the greater number of housekeepers, that the higher the prices of corne doe rise, the lower the states of families fall. And the sellers of victuals do the more fill their purses with mony, the lesse the poore seruants fill their bellies with meate. Aske the traueller by the ⟨p. 92⟩way; aske the labourer in the countrie; aske the tradesmen in the towne; aske the common sort, yea almost any sort of inhabitants in the citie, and which of all these will say, or truly may say, it is no burthen to vs that things are no cheaper? A great part of their care is to make prouision for household: a great part of their labour is swallowed vp in prouision: a great part of time is too little for their labour. So that their care is more, their labour greater, their commons shorter, and state much weaker. Many be restrained from doing further good: many be compelled to lessen former familie: many thereby be brought to manifold inconueniences, more than we expresse or thinke of.