He is a guardian eunuch to his beloved gold: Audivi eos
amatores esse maximos sed nil potesse. They are the fondest lovers,
but impotent to enjoy.
And, oh, what man's condition can be worse
Than his, whom plenty starves, and blessings curse?
The beggars but a common fate deplore,
The rich poor man's emphatically poor.
I wonder how it comes to pass that there has never been any law made
against him. Against him, do I say? I mean for him, as there is a
public provision made for all other madmen. It is very reasonable
that the king should appoint some persons (and I think the courtiers
would not be against this proposition) to manage his estate during
his life (for his heirs commonly need not that care), and out of it
to make it their business to see that he should not want alimony
befitting his condition, which he could never get out of his own
cruel fingers. We relieve idle vagrants and counterfeit beggars,
but have no care at all of these really poor men, who are, methinks,
to be respectfully treated in regard of their quality. I might be
endless against them, but I am almost choked with the superabundance
of the matter.
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