Ease, their avarice, and the number
of their Years: None to appearance
more Wise and Religious than these
Wretches, whose Apology is com∣monly
their declining of power,
and contempt of worldly vanities:
The sole difference which seems to
be between them, is, that the
great Rich-man disposes of his
Estate in building some august Fa∣brick
or Publick Work, which cul∣tivates,
Art, and employs a world
of poor men that earn their bread;
and that the other unprofitably
hoards it up: Besides, that Cove∣tousness
seldom goes unaccompa∣nied
with other secret and exter∣minating
Vices. But the wisest of
men has said so much, and so well
concerning this Evil under the Sun,Eccles.
that I shall only need address you
to his Book of Vanities: As for
the Recreative part of Solitude,
which he again resolves here into
Hunting, Hawking, Angling, and
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