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didLETTERS, TRACTS, CsV,4 JOpented bitterly when it was out <strong>of</strong> time ? Have notfeveral <strong>of</strong> you made purchafes, when you were fo farin drink, that next day you not remember what,you had done, or what price you h^d made <strong>the</strong>m ?Have not many <strong>of</strong> you, by fuch purchafes, ftraitenedyour circumftances, and been forced to live in apoorer way than you v/ould have done, had you neverattended a roup in your life ?After what I have now faid, I need not tell you,(for you kno^y it) that a roup <strong>of</strong> farm tacks is conductedfull as artfully as one <strong>of</strong> growing corn. When<strong>the</strong> laird hath prepared you for his purp<strong>of</strong>e, in <strong>the</strong>artful manner already mentioned, he will not be a-wanting to himfelf on <strong>the</strong> decliive day.<strong>The</strong> two forts <strong>of</strong> rouping^ Vv'hich I have been fpeaking<strong>of</strong>, tend, each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, (as you know and feel)to your hurt and poverty. But that <strong>of</strong> tacks is certainly<strong>the</strong> m<strong>of</strong>t abiding <strong>ca</strong>ufe <strong>of</strong> your poverty and diftrefs.If one <strong>of</strong> you l<strong>of</strong>es eight or ten- guineas by<strong>the</strong> purchafe <strong>of</strong> a corn field, he may, by labour, andpinching himfelf, in time, overcome that l<strong>of</strong>s j but,if he bids, and bids, and gets a farm too high, hemuft toil, and pinch, and ftarve himfelf for nineteenyears, which is a great part <strong>of</strong> his iifetim.e : His comfortin this v\''orld is <strong>the</strong>n at an end. If <strong>the</strong> laird fees,that, by <strong>the</strong> produce <strong>of</strong> his labour, toge<strong>the</strong>r with hisftock, while he goes in rags, and lives on hulks, hewill be able to pay <strong>the</strong> rent, he will not fufrer him togo away.You may imagine, that <strong>the</strong> infidious artificesthat' have been pra

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