The Augustins (or Austin Friars or Eremites,) were so called from their following certain pretended rules of St Augustine, which enjoined poverty, and enforced particular duties and discipline. They made their appearance about a. d. 1252.

Such a world of holidays, that 'tis a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labour.

Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere.

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