In which design let us not be discouraged, nor discountenanced, notwithstanding, our elder brothers are advanced in power and authority above us, but let us rather be animated that our cause is just, and our determiners we hope not unjust, we shall not be unreasonable, let us not despair, for greater things then this have been effected: let younger brothers likewise consider, the misery, the disesteem, this use, this vast difference bringeth on them, the Elder enjoying large possessions, the younger having not sufficient maintenance, the Elder gentlemen, the Younger beggars, as if they were ⟨p. 4⟩bastards and no sons, servants and no children, this is so usually practised, that the very name of a younger brother is a word of contempt, and an expression of want and slender means, and amongst other Nations reckoned as one of the poor companies, some commiserating their poor condition and maintenance, that the Elder and Younger being brethren by birth of so near relation, of the same flesh and blood, should be so severed, so disjoined, and so far off in fortunes; some again deriding at the ill policy of our Kingdom, and carelessness of some Parents in bringing them up as their children, but not maintaining them as their sons, in giving them a generous breeding, but leaving them a slender allowance for the continuance of it, dealing with them as Pharaoh dealt with the children of Israel, that would have them make brick, but would give them no straw, that would have them Gentlemen, but will give them little or nothing for the support and maintenance of it.
In which design let us not be discouraged, nor discountenanced, notwithstanding, our elder brothers are advanced in power and authority above us, but let us rather be animated that our cause is just, and our determiners we hope not unjust, we shall not be unreasonable, let us not despair, for greater things then this have been effected: let younger brothers likewise consider, the misery, the disesteem, this use, this vast difference bringeth on them, the Elder injoying large possessions, the younger having not sufficient maintenance, the Elder gentlemen, the Younger beggers, as if they were ⟨p. 4⟩bastards and no sonnes, servants and no children, this is so usually practised, that the very name of a younger brother is a word of contempt, and an expression of want and slender meanes, and amongst other Nations reckoned as one of the poor companies, some commiserating their poor condition and maintenance, that the Elder and Younger being bretheren by birth of so near relation, of the same flesh and blood, should be so severed, so disjoyned, and so far off in fortunes; some again deriding at the ill policie of our Kingdome, and carelessnesse of some Parents in bringing them up as their children, but not maintaining them as their sons, in giving them a generous breeding, but leaving them a slender allowance for the continuance of it, dealing with them as Pharaoh dealt with the children of Israel, that would have them make brick, but would give them no straw, that would have them Gentlemen, but will give them little or nothing for the support and maintenance of it.
