riches be for spend and spend for honour and good action therefore  extraordinary expense must be limit by the worth of the occasion for voluntary  undo may be as well for a man country as for the kingdom of heaven but  ordinary expense ought to be limit by a man estate and govern with such regard  as it be within his compass and not subject to deceit and abuse of servant and  order to the best show that the bill may be less than the estimation abroad  certain if a man will keep but of even hand his ordinary expense ought to be  but to the half of his receipt and if he think to wax rich but to the three  part it be no baseness for the great to descend and look into their own estate  some forbear it not upon negligence alone but doubt to bring themselves into  melancholy in respect they shall find it break but wound can be cure without  search he that can look into his own estate at all have needs both choose well  those who he employ and change they often for new be more timorous and less  subtle he that can look into his estate but seldom it behoof he to turn all to  certainty a man have needs if he be plentiful in some kind of expense to be as  save again in some other as if he be plentiful in diet to be save in apparel  if he be plentiful in the hall to be save in the stable and the like for he  that be plentiful in expense of all kind will hardly be preserve from decay in  clear of a man estate he may as well hurt himself in be too sudden as in let  it run on too long for hasty sell be common as disadvantageable as interest  beside he that clear at once will relapse for find himself out of strait he  will revert to his custom but he that clear by degree induce a habit of  frugality and gain as well upon his mind as upon his estate certain who have a  state to repair may not despise small thing and common it be less  dishonourable to abridge petty charge than to stoop to petty get a man ought  wary to begin charge which once begin will continue but in matter that return  not he may be more magnificent