badness, that we have rather only looked in them, than indeed said
any thing to them: but we will pass them, and proceed. You have
heard of the sins of his Youth, of his Apprentiship, and how he set
up, and married, and what a life he hath led his wife; and now I
will tell you some more {88a} of his pranks. He had the very knack
of Knavery; had he, as I said before, been bound to serve an
Apprentiship to all these things, he could not have been more
cunning, he could not have been more artificial at it.

Atten. Nor perhaps so artificially neither. For as none can teach
Goodness like to God himself, so concerning Sin and Knavery, none
can teach a man it like the Devil, to whom, as I perceive, Mr.
Badman went to School from his Childhood to the end of his life.
But pray Sir, make a beginning.

Wise. Well so I will. You may remember that I told you what a
condition he was in for Money before he did marry, and how he got a
rich Wife, with whose Money he paid his debts: Now when he had
paid his debts, he having some Moneys left, he sets up again {88b}
as briskly as ever, keeps a great Shop, drives a great Trade, and
runs again a great way into debt; but now not into the debt of one
or two, but into the debt of many, so that at last he came to owe
some thousands; and thus he went on a good while. And to pursue
his ends the better, he began now to study to please all men, and
to suit himself to any company; he could now be as they, say as
they, that is, if he listed; and then he would list, when he
perceived that by so doing, he might either make them his Customers
or Creditors for his Commodities. If he dealt with honest men, (as
with some honest men he did) then he would be as they; talk as
they, seem to be sober as they, talk of Justice and Religion as