‘Fruges conſumere nati’
‘Born to conſume the Fruits of the Earth,’ So, I make no manner of Doubt but that there are others
‘Feras conſumere nati.’
‘Born to conſume the Beaſts of the Field,’ or, as it is commonly called, the Game; and none, I believe, will deny, but that thoſe Squires fulfil this end of their Creation.
Little Jones went one Day a ſhooting with the Game-keeper; when, happening to ſpring a Covey of Partridges, near the Border of that Manor, over which Fortune, to fulfil the wiſe Purpoſes of Nature, had planted one of the Game-Conſumers, the Birds flew into it, and were marked (as it is called) by the two Sportſmen, in ſome Furze Buſhes, about two or three hundred Paces beyond Mr. Allworthy’s Dominions.
Mr. Allworthy had given the Fellow ſtrict Orders, on Pain of forfeiting his Place, never to treſpaſs on any of his Neighbours, no more than on thoſe who were leſs rigid in this Matter, than on the Lord of the Manor.With
