chimney corner

It is meere injustice to see an old, crazed, sinew-shronken, and nigh dead father sitting alone in a Chimney-corner, to enjoy so many goods as would suffice for the preferment and entertainment of many children, and in the meane while, for want of meanes, to suffer them to lose their best dayes and yeares, without thrusting them into publike service and knowledge of men[…].