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No, they do in all things contrary: estranging of their children what they can, from the love of God and all good men, so soon as they are born. ATTEN. Well, but before we leave Mr. Badman's wife and children, I have a mind, if you please, to inquire a little more after one thing, the which I am sure you can satisfy me in. WISE. What is that? ATTEN. You said a while ago that this Mr.
Badman's common practice was to do thus, that some one or more did not find him out, and blame him for this his wickedness. WISE. For the generality of people he went away clever with his knavery.
Do you think that that maid's master would have been troubled at the loss of her, if he had not lost, with her, his gain? But Mr. Badman's master did sometimes lose by Mr. Badman's sins, and then Badman and his master were at odds. ATTEN. Alas, poor Badman! Then it seems thou couldest not at all times please thy like. WISE. No, he could not, and the reason I have told you.
WISE. I will tell you; it was this, he had an art to break, and get hatfuls of money by breaking. ATTEN. But what do you mean by Mr. Badman's breaking? You speak mystically, do you not? WISE. No, no, I speak plainly. Or, if you will have it in plainer language, it is this; when Mr.
Much drinking brings dropsies, consumptions, surfeits, and many other diseases; and I doubt that Mr. Badman's death did come by his abuse of himself in the use of lawful and unlawful things. I ground this my sentence upon that report of his life that you at large have given me.
Badman; had he, I say, dealt like an honest man, he had then gone out of Mr. Badman's road. He did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and to a wicked end; to wit, that he might have wherewithal, howsoever unlawfully gotten, to follow his cups and queans, and to live in the full swing of his lusts, even as he did before. ATTEN. Why this was a mere cheat. WISE. It was a cheat indeed.
ATTEN. I have known some children, who, though they have been very bad at home, yet have altered much when they have been put out abroad; especially when they have fallen into a family where the governors thereof have made conscience of maintaining of the worship and service of God therein; but perhaps that might be wanting in Mr. Badman's master's house.
To conclude; let those that would not die Mr. Badman's death, take heed of Mr. Badman's ways; for his ways bring to his end. Wickedness will not deliver him that is given to it; though they should cloak all with a profession of religion. If it was a transgression of old for a man to wear a woman's apparel, surely it is a transgression now for a sinner to wear a Christian profession for a cloak.
Badman's father had done as you say, and by so doing had driven his son to ill courses, what had he bettered either himself or his son in so doing? ATTEN. That is true, but it doth not follow that if the father had done as I said, the son would have done as you suppose. But if he had done as you have supposed, what had he done worse than what he hath done already?
Suppose that there be a hell in very deed; not that I do question it any more than I do whether there be a sun to shine, but I suppose it for argument sake with Mr. Badman's friends.
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