When a Man once gives himself this Liberty of preying at large, and living upon the Common, he finds so much Game in a populous City, that it is surprising to consider the Numbers which he sometimes propagates.
see many a young Fellow who is scarce of Age, that could lay his Claim to the
Jus trium Liberorum
, or the Privileges which were granted by the
Roman
Laws to all such as were Fathers of three Children: Nay, I have heard a Rake
who
was not quite five and twenty, declare himself the Father of a seventh Son, and very prudently determine to breed him up a Physician. In short, the Town is full of these young Patriarchs, not to mention several batter'd Beaus, who, like heedless Spendthrifts that squander away their Estates before they are Masters of them, have raised up their whole Stock of Children before Marriage.