Atten. Did you then so well know his Life?

Wise. I knew him of a Child. I was a man, when he was but a boy,
and I made special observation of him from first to last.

Atten. Pray then let me hear from you an account of his Life; but
be as brief as you can, for I long to hear of the manner of his
death.

Wise. I will endeavour to answer your desires, and first, I will
tell you, that from a Child he was very bad: his very beginning
was ominous, and presaged that no good end, was, in likelyhood, to
follow thereupon. There were several sins that he was given to,
when but a little one, that manifested him to be notoriously
infected with Or[i]ginal corruption; for I dare say he learned none
of them of his Father or Mother; nor was he admitted to go much
abroad among other Children, that were vile, to learn to sin of
them: Nay, contrariwise, if at any time he did get abroad amongst
others, he would be as the Inventer of bad words, and an example in
bad actions. To them all he used to be, as we say, the Ring-
leader, and Master-sinner from a Childe.

Atten. This was a bad Beginning indeed, and did demonstrate that
he was, as you say, polluted, very much polluted with Original
Corruption. For to speak my mind freely, I do confess, that it is
mine opinion, that Children come polluted with sin into the World,
and that oft-times the sins of their youth, especially while they
are very young, are rather by vertue of Indwelling sin, than by
examples that are set before them by others. Not but that they
learn to sin by example too, but Example is not the root, but