to his Drinking-cup. But Papus seem'd more head-strong, who having received his Goods as hereditary, would not alienate them for religions sake.4. They were also certainly very rich who were call'd from the Plough to be made Consuls; for plea∣sures sake they plough'd the sandy and barren Soil of Pupinia, and ignorant of delicacy scatter'd those vast clods with cntinued sweat and labour; so that those whom the dangers of the Common wealth call'd to be Emperours and Generals, their want at home (for why should truth conceal a Sirname?) compell'd to follow the call of Cowherds.5. They who were sent by the Senate to call Atilius to undertake the Government of the Roman People, found him sowing in his Garden; but those hands, hardned with Countrey-labour, establish'd the safety of the Common-wealth, and defeated mighty Armies of the Enemies; and those hands that lately held the Plough, now hold the reins of the Triumphant Cha∣riot: Nor was he asham'd, when he had laid down his Ebony Staff, to return again to the Plough Tail. Well may Atilius comfort the Poor, but much more instruct the Rich, how little the troublesome care of gathering Riches, advantages the true desire of pur∣chasing solid Honour.6. Of the same name and blood, Atilius Regulus, the greatest glory and the greatest calamity of the Punic War, when he had ruin'd the wealth of the most in∣solent Carthaginian by the success of many Victories, and understood that his authority was continued for the next year, upon considration of his worthy deeds; he wrote to the Consuls, that his Bayly of his little Farm that he had in the Countrey of Popinia was ded, and that one that he had hired was gone away with his Utensils of Agriculture, and therefore de∣sired that a Succssour might be sent him, left his land 0