herein may embolden his servant to be bad, and may bring him too in
short time to rags and a morsel of Bread.

Atten. I am afraid that there is much of this kind of pilfering
among servants in these bad dayes of ours.

Wise. Now, while it is in my mind, I will tell you a story. {51c}
When I was in prison, there came a woman to me that was under a
great deal of trouble. So I asked her (she being a stranger to me)
what she had to say to me. She said, she was afraid she should be
damned. I asked her the cause of those fears. She told me that
she had sometime since lived with a Shop-keeper at Wellingborough,
and had robbed his box in the Shop several times of Money, to the
value of more than now I will say; and pray, says she, tell me what
I shall do. I told her, I would have her go to her Master, and
make him satisfaction: She said, she was afraid; I asked her why?
She said, she doubted he would hang her. I told her, that I would
intercede for her life, and would make use of other friends too to
do the like; But she told me, she durst not venture that. Well,
said I, shall I send to your Master, while you abide out of sight,
and make your peace with him, before he sees you; and with that, I
asked her her Masters name. But all that she said in answer to
this, was, Pray let it alone till I come to you again. So away she
went, and neither told me her Masters Name, nor her own: This is
about ten or twelve years since, and I never saw her again. I tell
you this story for this cause; to confirm your fears, that such
kind of servants too many there be; and that God makes them
sometimes like old Tod, of whom mention was made before, (through
the terrors that he layes upon them) to betray themselves.