When, as in the case I am speaking of, 'tis against a poor old man and for the children, then they make use of this title to serve their passion with glory; and, as for a common service, easily cabal, and combine against his government and dominion.

If they be males grown up in full and flourishing health, they presently corrupt, either by force or favour, steward, receivers, and all the rout.

Such as have neither wife nor son do not so easily fall into this misfortune; but withal more cruelly and unworthily.

Cato the elder in his time said: So many servants, so many enemies; consider, then, whether according to the vast difference between the purity of the age he lived in and the corruption of this of ours, he does not seem to shew us that wife, son, and servant, are so many enemies to us?
'Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied by want of observation, ignorance, and a proneness to being deceived.

For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?
especially in such an age as this, where the very judges who are to determine our controversies are usually partisans to the young, and interested in the cause.