Paraphrasing+practice

And you fathers that are either so foolishly fond,
 * And you fathers who love your children too much**

or so miserably covetous,
 * or are terribly possessive of them**

or so willfully ignorant, **or hide themselves from the truth of what their children do/who they are**

or so negligently careless,
 * or who ignore their children's needs **

as that you will rather maintain your children in idle wantonness, till they grow your masters;
 * so that you would prefer to keep your kids living in a state of lazy wastefulness until they become more powerful than you **

or become so basely unkind, as they wish nothing but your deaths;
 * or become so mean and bitter that they hope for nothing but that you would die **

so that both sorts grow dissolute:
 * and become loose and lax in morals **

and although you would wish them anywhere to escape the gallows, and ease your cares;
 * and though you would hope that they are not punished anywhere for serious crimes **

though they spend you here one, two, or three hundred pound a year;
 * and thought they spend a lot of your money **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">you would grudge to give half so much in adventure with them,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">you would not give them not even half of that amount to come on this journey? **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">to obtain an estate, which in a small time
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">where they could gain a house and land in only a small period of time **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">but with a little assistance of your providence, might be better than your own.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">and with only minor help from you, their lives might end up even better than your current existence. **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">But if an angel should tell you,that any place yet unknown can afford such fortunes; you would not believe him,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">And if an angel were to tell you that an undiscovered place could supply such amazing gifts, you would think they were lying, **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">no more than Columbus was believed there was any such land as is now the well-known abounding America;
 * just like Columbus was doubted by people when he tried to tell them about the now well-known land of abundance, America.**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">much less such large regions as are yet unknown, as well in America, as in Africa,and Asia, and Terra Incognita;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">much less when we think about places that we haven't even discovered yet, like regions in American, Africa, Asia, and other unknown lands **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">where were courses for gentlemen (and them that would be so reputed) more suiting their qualities,
 * where the journeys for the worthy (and those who think of themselves worthy) are more suitable to their characteristics**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">than begging from their Prince's generous disposition, the labors of his sub­jects, and the very marrow of his maintenance.
 * than to leech and beg from the Crown's generosity, its people, and the very substance of its existence.**