. a gallon.
These things are ill for the buyer and the poor man, and should not be
allowd:--

"I wish that God would once open their eies that deale thus, to see
their owne errours: for as yet some of them little care how manie
poore men suffer extremitie, so that they may fill their purses, and
carie awaie the gaine."

Good doctrine, no doubt; but "_nous avons change tout cela_." However in
one thing the modern Political Economist can agree with Harrison:--

"I gather that the maintenance of a superfluous number of dealers in
most trades, tillage alwaies excepted, is one of the greatest causes
why the prices of things become excessiue."

There's a comical bit about the names for ale, "huffecap, mad dog, angels'
food," etc., and the way

"our maltbugs lug at this liquor, euen as pigs should lie in a row,
lugging at their dames teats, till they lie still againe, and be not
able to wag ... and ... hale at hufcap, till they be red as cockes, &
litle wiser than their combs."

In his chapter "Of Parks and Warrens," Harrison tells us how coney warrens
have increast, from the value of the creatures' black skins and the quick
sale for young rabbits in London; and what a shocking thing it is that one
Lady has sold her husband's venison to the Cooks, and another Lady has
ridden to market to see her butter sold! it's as bad as an Earl feeling
his own oxen to see whether they're ready for the butcher! He then gives
us a refreshing bit of his mind on owners of parks who enclose commons:

"And yet some owners, still desirous to inlarge those grounds, as
either for the breed and feeding of cattell, doo not let dailie to
take in more, not sparing the verie commons whervpon manie towneships
now and then doo liue, affirming that we haue alreadie too great
store of people in England; and that youth by marrieng too soone doo
nothing profit the countrie, but fill it full of beggars, to the hurt
and vtter vndooing (they saie) of the common wealth.

"Certes, if it be not one curse of the Lord, to haue our countrie
conuerted in such sort, from the furniture of mankind, into the walks
and shrowds of wild beasts, I know not what is anie. How manie
families also these great and small games (for so most keepers call
them) haue eaten vp, and are likelie hereafter to deuoure, some men
may coniecture, but manie more la