John Trapp on Proverbs 13:23

Verſ. 23. Much food is in the tillage of the poor] Who have but a little, and look well to it. That of the Poet is well known — Laudato ingentia rura, Exiguum colito — It is beſt for a man to have no more than hee can maſter, and make his beſt of. Vigil. Geog. lib. [illegible: 1 letter]. Lib. 1. cap 3. The ground ſhould bee weaker than hee that tills it, ſaith Columella. The earth is a fruitful mother, and brings forth meat meet for them by whom it is dreſſed, Heb. 6.7.

But there is that is deſtroyed for want of judgement] viz. in plowing and ſowing, Iſa. 28.26. or in managing and husbanding what hee hath gotten, for the beſt. For non minor eſt virtus quam quaerere, parta tueri. Wee muſt bee good husbands, and ſee that Condus bee fort[illegible: 1 letter]or Promo, our comings in more than our layings out. Bonus Servatius facit bonum Bonifacium, ſaith the Dutch man in his blunt Proverb, A good ſaver, makes a well-doer.