hundred Pounds a Year; which is mortgaged for six thousand Pounds; but it is impossible to convince him that if he sold as much as would pay off that Debt, he would save four Shillings in the Pound
, which he gives for the Vanity of being the reputed Master of it.
Yet
if
Laertes
did this, he would, perhaps, be easier in his own Fortune; but then
Irus
, a Fellow of Yesterday, who has but twelve hundred a Year, would be his Equal. Rather than this shall be,