so that man, which looks too far before him in the care of the future time, hath his heart all the day long gnawed on by fear of death, poverty or other calamity, and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep.
… that in contract, I merit by virtue of my own power, and the contractor’s need; but in this case of free gift, I am enabled to merit only by the benignity of the giver …
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.