Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
For disorder obstructs besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.