LXXXI.
Keep no more servants than needs must; many by their footmen had been unhorsed. Let thy Revenue exceed thy Retinue; why should
Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
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- Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
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- 1664.
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"Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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others consume thee? look upon thy servants as sharers with thy prosperity; if thy condition be clouded, and a storm threatned, they will soon leave thee for shelter. I have read of an extravagant respect of some; but a Swallow or two do's not make a Summer; fewer servants have dyed for their Masters, than there have been Masters by their servants undone.