[ 1031] Time, to be well husbanded.
IN the Country,* 1.1 if a man have a thousand acres of ground, he can then spare so much of it to lie waste, so much for a bouling-green, so much for a tennis-court, so much for a court-yard, and so much for his mansion-house, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging: But let a poor man have but an hemp-pleck, a small burgage, or garden-plot,* 1.2 he cannot spare one foot of it, but looks to it, and husbands it to the best advantage: And so ought we to make much of that little time, which we have in this world, Hoc est momentum. Eternity rides upon the back of Time, then not to squander that little time away, aut male, aut nihil, aut aliud agendo; so that the candle of our life burning low, we play it (like foolish children) out, and then go darkling to bed, comfortlesse to our graves.