continual Worshipper of him, and that in the way of his own
Appointments: I have an Husband, but also a Soul, and my Soul
ought to be more unto me, than all the world besides. This soul of
mine I will look after, care for, and (if I can) provide it an
Heaven for its habitation. You are commanded to love me, as you
love your own body, and so do I love you; {85a} but I tell you
true, I preferr my Soul before all the world, and its Salvation I
will seek.

At this, first, {85b} he gave her an ugly wish, and then fell into
a fearfull rage, and sware moreover that if she did go, he would
make both her, and all her damnable Brotherhood (for so he was
pleased to call them) to repent their coming thither.

Atten. But what should he mean by that?

Wise. You may easily guess what he meant: he meant, he would turn
Informer, and so either weary out those that she loved, from
meeting together to Worship God; or make them pay dearly for their
so doing; the which if he did, he knew it would vex every vein of
her tender heart.

Atten. But do you think Mr. Badman would have been so base?

Wise. Truly he had malice, and enmity enough in his heart to do
it, onely he was a Tradesman; also he knew that he must live by his
neighbours, and so he had that little wit in his anger, that he
refrained himself, and did it not. But, as I said, he had malice
and envy enough in his heart {85c} to have made him to do it, only
he thought it would worst him in his trade: yet these three things