Jack-pay-for-all; They would be borrowing also money of him, but
take no care to pay again, except it was with more of their
company, which also he liked very well; and so his poverty came
like one that travelleth, and his want like an armed man.

But all the while they studied his temper; {69d} he loved to be
flattered, praised and commanded for Wit, Manhood, and Personage;
and this was like stroking him over the face. Thus they Collogued
with him, and got yet more and more into him, and so (like Horse-
leaches) they drew away that little that his father had given him,
and brought him quickly down, almost to dwell next dore to the
begger.

Atten. Then was the saying of the wise man fulfilled, He that
keepeth company with harlots, and a companion of fools, shall be
destroyed. {69e}

Wise. Ay, and that too, A companion of riotous persons shameth his
father; {69f} For he, poor man, had both grief and shame, to see
how his son (now at his own hand) behaved himself in the enjoyment
of those good things, in and under the lawfull use of which he
might have lived to Gods glory, his own comfort, and credit among
his neighbours. But he that followeth vain persons, shall have
poverty enough. {69g} The way that he took, led him directly into
this condition; for who can expect other things of one that follows
such courses? Besides, when he was in his Shop, he could not abide
to be doing; He was naturally given to Idleness: He loved to live
high, but his hands refused to labour; and what else can the end of
such an one be, but that which the wise man saith? The Drunkard
and the Glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cloath