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a sack can hold their siller, six houses and a half cannot contain their ambitious desires. Fortunatus's wonderful purse would fall in fetching in the fourth part of their worldly wants, and their children imitate their mother's chattering like hungry cranes, crying still, I want, I want, ever craving, willfully wasting, till all be brought to a doleful dish of desolation, and with cleanness of teeth, a full breast, an empty belly, big pockets without pence, pinching penury, perfect poverty, drouth, hunger, want of money, and friends both, old age, dim eyes, feeble joints, without shoes or clothes, the real fruits of a bad marriage, which brings thoughtless Fops to both faith and repentance in one day.
Thirdly, Another thing I see, hear, and cannot help, is the breeding of bairns, and
bringing them up like bull-stirks, they gie them walth o' meat, but nae manners; but whan I was a bairn, if I didna bend to obedienee, I ken mysel what I gat, which learned me what to gie mine again; if they had tell'd me tuts or prute-no, I laid them o'er my knee, and a com'd crack for crack o'er their hurdies, like a knock bleaching a harn web, till the red wats stood on their hips, this brought obedience into my house, and banish'd dods and ill-nature out at the door; I dang the de'il out o' them, and dadded them like a wet dish-clout till they did my bidding: But now the bairns are brought up to spit fire in their mither's face, and cast dirt at their
