cheated my self with a brass half-Crown, must I therefore cheat
another therewith? if this be bad in the whole, it is also bad in
the parts. Therefore however thou are dealt withall in thy buying,
yet thou must deal justly in selling, or thou sinnest against thy
soul, and art become as Mr. Badman. And know, that a pretence to
custom is nothing worth. 'Tis not custom, but good conscience that
will help at Gods Tribunal.

Atten. But I am perswaded, that that which is gotten by men this
way, doth them but little good.

Wise. I am of your mind for that, but this is not considered by
those thus minded. For if they can get it, though they get, as we
say, the Devil and all, by their getting, yet they are content, and
count that their getting is much.

Little good! Why do you think they consider that? No: no more
than they consider what they shall doe in the Judgment, at the day
of God Almighty, for their wrong getting of what they get, and that
is just nothing at all. {113a}

But to give you a more direct answer. This kind of getting, is so
far off from doing them little good, that it doth them no good at
all; because thereby they lose their own souls; What shall it
profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul? {113b} He loseth then, he loseth greatly that getteth after
this fashion. This is the man that is penny-wise, and pound-
foolish; this is he that loseth his good Sheep for a halfpennyworth
of tarr; that loseth a soul for a little of the world. And then
what doth he get thereby, but loss and dammage? {113c} Thus he