“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.” EndsFatherTrustOrdinaryIntimatePrudence Author:Frances Osborne
