of the body,
as is proper for its welfare, it is so ordered, that nothing, valuable
can be procured without it. Not to mention riches and honor, even food
and raiment are not to be come at without the toil of the hands and
sweat of the brows.

6. Providence furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them
up ourselves. The earth must be labored before it gives its increase,
and when it is forced into its several products, how many hands must
they pass through before they are fit for use. Manufactures, trade and
agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in
twenty; and as for those who are not obliged to labor, by the condition
in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of
mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labor which
goes by the name of exercise.

7. My friend Sir _Roger_ hath been an indefatigable man in business of
this kind, and has hung several parts of his house with the trophies of
his former labors. The walls of his great hall are covered with the
horns of several kinds of deer that he has killed in the chase, which he
thinks the most valuable furniture of his house, as they afford him
frequent topics of discourse, and show that he has not been idle.

8. At the lower end of the hall is a large otter's skin stuffed with
hay, which his mother ordered to be hung up in that manner, and the
knight looks upon it with great satisfaction, because it seems he was
but nine years old when his dog killed it. A little room adjoining to
the hall is a kind of arsenal, filled with guns of several sizes and
inventions, with which the knight has made great havoc in the woods, and
destroyed many thousands of pheasants, partridges and woodcocks. His
stable-doors are patched with noses that belonged to foxes of the
knight's own hunting down.

9. Sir _Roger_ shewed me one of them that, for distinction sake, has a
brass nail stuck through it, which cost him about fifteen hours riding,
carried him, through half a dozen counties, killed him a brace of
geldings, and lost about half his dogs. This the knight looks upon as
one of the greatest exploits of his life.

10. The perverse widow, whom I have given some account of, was the death
of several foxes; for Sir _Roger_ has told me, that in the course of his
amours he patched the western door of his stable. Whenever the widow was
cruel, the foxes were sure to pay for it. In proportion as his passion
for th