I can call riches better than the baggage of virtue the Roman word be better  impedimenta for as the baggage be to a army so be riches to virtue it can be  spare nor leave behind but it hinder the march yea and the care of it sometime  lose or disturb the victory of great riches there be no real use except it be  in the distribution the rest be but conceit so say Solomon where much be there  be many to consume it and what have the owner but the sight of it with his eye  the personal fruition in any man can reach to feel great riches there be a  custody of they or a power of dole and donative of they or a fame of they but  no solid use to the owner do you not see what feign prince be set upon little  stone and rarity and what work of ostentation be undertake because there may  seem to be some use of great riches but then you will say they may be of use  to buy man out of danger or trouble as Solomon say riches be as a strong hold  in the imagination of the rich man but this be excellent express that it be in  imagination and not always in fact for certain great riches have sell more man  than they have buy out seek not proud riches but such as thou may get just use  sober distribute cheerful and leave content yet have no abstract nor friarly  contempt of they but distinguish as Cicero say well of Rabirius posthumus in  study rei to broaden that this only is apparent non greed surety say tool  goodness to seek hearken also to Solomon and beware of hasty gather of riches  who hasten and riches  non to be guiltless the poet feign that when Plutus  which be riches be send from Jupiter he limp and go slow but when he be send  from Pluto he run and be swift of foot meaning that riches get by good mean  and just labour pace slow but when they come by the death of other as by the  course of inheritance testament and the like they come tumble upon a man but  it may be apply likewise to Pluto take he for the devil for when riches come  from the devil as by fraud and oppression and unjust mean they come upon speed  the way to enrich be many and most of they foul parsimony be one of the best  and yet be not innocent for it withhold man from work of liberality and  charity the improvement of the ground be the most natural obtain of riches for  it be our great mother blessing the earth but it be slow and yet where man of  great wealth do stoop to husbandry it multiply riches exceed I know a nobleman  in England that have the great audits of any man in my time a great grazier a  great sheep master a great timber man a great collier a great corn master a  great lead-man and so of iron and a number of the like point of husbandry so  as the earth seem a sea to he in respect of the perpetual importation it be  true observe by one that himself come very hardly to a little riches and very  easy to great riches for when a man stock be come to that that he can expect  the prime of market and overcome those bargain which for their greatness be  few man money and be partner in the industry of young man he can but increase  main the gain of ordinary trade and vocation be honest and further by two  thing chief by diligence and by a good name for good and fair deal but the  gain of bargain be of a more doubtful nature when man shall wait upon other  necessity break by servant and instrument to draw they on put off other  cunning that will be better chapman and the like practice which be crafty and  nought as for the chap of bargain when a man buy not to hold but to sell over  again that common grind double both upon the seller and upon the buyer  Sharings do great enrich if the hand be well choose that be trust usury be the  certain mean of gain though one of the worst as that whereby a man do eat his  breed in sweat face foreign and beside do plough upon Sunday but yet certain  though it be it have flaw for that the scrivener and broker do valve unsound  man to serve their own turn the fortune in be the first in a invention or in a  privilege do cause sometime a wonder overgrowth in riches as it be with the  first sugar man in the canary therefore if a man can play the true logician to  have as well judgement as invention he may do great matter especial if the  time be fit he that rest upon gain certain shall hardly grow to great riches  and he that put all upon adventure do oftentimes break and come to poverty it  be good therefore to guard adventure with certainty that may uphold loss  monopoly and coemption of ware for re-sale where they be not restrain be great  mean to enrich especial if the party have intelligence what thing be like to  come into request and so store himself beforehand riches get by service though  it be of the best rise yet when they be get by flattery feed humour and other  servile condition they may be place among the worst as for fish for testament  and executor as Tacitus say of Seneca will et circle tamquam ring of huntsmen  take hold it be yet worse by how much man submit themselves to mean person  than in service believe not much they that seem to despise riches for they  despise they that despair of they and none worse when they come to they be not  penny wise riches have wing and sometime they fly away of themselves sometime  they must be set fly to bring in more man leave their riches either to their  kindred or to the public and moderate portion prosper best in both a great  state leave to a heir be as a lure to all the bird of prey round about to  seize on he if he be not the better establish in year and judgement likewise  glorious gift and foundation be like sacrifice without salt and but the paint  sepulchre of nourishing which soon will putrefy and corrupt inward therefore  measure not thou advancement by quantity but frame they by measure and defer  not charity till death for certain if a man weigh it right he that do so be  rather liberal of another man than of his own