Most of the Trades, Professions, and Ways of Living among Mankind, take their Original either from the Love of Pleasure or the Fear of Want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into
Luxury
, and the latter into
Avarice
. As these two Principles of Action draw different Ways,
Persius
has given us a very humourous Account of a young Fellow who was rouzed out of his Bed, in order to be sent upon a long Voyage, by
Avarice
, and afterwards over-persuaded and kept at Home by
Luxury