’Tis a Great deal of Pains that some People take to give Others
Satisfaction, and to Torment themselves. But This Verifies the Old
Proverb, _Happy is the Son, whose Father goes to the Devil_; for Ill
Gotten Goods and Estates are commonly Squander’d away with as Little
Conscience as they were Rak’d together. There goes a Canker along with
them, when over and above the Iniquity of the Extortion and Oppression,
the Bloud of so many Widows and Orphans cries to Heaven for Vengeance.
Now a Less Generous Chuff then This in the Fable, would have Hugg’d his
Bags to the Last, and have Envy’d That Satisfaction to his Heirs, which
he Himself could Enjoy no longer. But it was his Care to Transmit to his
Posterity a Curse with his Money, and to Bequeath them the Sin in the
Inordinate Love of Riches, together with his Treasure.