mind, to defraud and beguile his Creditors: he had wherewithall of
his Father, and also by his Wife, to have lived upon, with lawfull
labour, like an honest man. He had also when he made this wicked
Break (though he had been a profuse and prodigal spender) to have
paid his creditors their own to a farthing. But had he done so, he
had not done like himself, like Mr. Badman; had he, I say, dealt
like an honest man, he had then gone out of Mr. Badmans road. He
did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and to a wicked end; to wit,
that he might have wherewithall, howsoever unlawfully gotten, to
follow his Cups and Queans, and to live in the full swinge of his
lusts, even as he did before.

Atten. Why this was a meer Cheat.

Wise. It was a cheat indeed. This way of breaking, it is else but
a more neat way of Thieving, of picking of pockets, of breaking
open of shops, and of taking from men what one has nothing to do
with. But though it seem easie, it is hard to learn, no man that
has conscience to God or man, can ever be his Crafts Master in this
Hellish art.

Atten. Oh! Sirs! what a wicked man was this?

Wise. A wicked man indeed. By this art he could tell how to make
men send their goods to his shop, and then be glad to take a penny
for that for which he had promised before it came thither, to give
them a Groat: I say, he could make them glad to take a Crown for a
pounds worth, and a thousand for that for which he had promised
before to give them four thousand pounds.