) they determined, pursuant to the Resolution they had taken in the beginning of their Lives, to retire, and pass the Remainder of their Days in the Country. In order to this, they both of them married much about the same time.
Leontine
, with his own and his Wife's Fortune, bought a Farm of three hundred a Year, which lay within the Neighbourhood of his Friend
Eudoxus
, who had purchased an Estate of as many thousands. They were both of them
Fathers
about the same time,
Eudoxus
having a Son born to him, and