to bargain away one's birthright

Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.

...so, on the other pairt, it wes to me no small confort that I sould now liue and, Godwilling, end my dayes in the tyme of a most gratious Pharao, who bothe knowes and will not forgett his evir deutisull and devoited Joseph.

Its entertainability in thought is not, however, anything that can be hastily and superficially and generally decided: we must work out a specific account of what it is to be an Absolute, we must meditate on its full implications […]