of his offences? If they do not relish altogether of
damnation, his youth may privilege his wantonness: I
myself ran an unbridled course till thirty, nay, almost
till forty;--well, you see how I am: for vice, once looked
into with the eyes of discretion, and well-balanced with
the weights of reason, the course past seems so abominable,
that the Landlord of himself, which is the heart of the body,
will rather entomb himself in the earth, or seek a new
Tenant to remain in him:--which once settled, how much
better are they that in their youth have known all these
vices, and left it, than those that knew little, and in their
age runs into it? Believe me, brother, they that die most
virtuous hath in their youth lived most vicious, and none
knows the danger of the fire more than he that falls into
it. But say, how is the course of his life? let's hear his
particulars.

UNCLE.
Why, I'll tell you, brother; he is a continual swearer, and
a breaker of his oaths, which is bad.

FATHER.
I grant indeed to swear is bad, but not in keeping those
oaths is better: for who will set by a bad thing? Nay, by
my faith, I hold this rather a virtue than a vice. Well, I pray,
proceed.

UNCLE.
He is a mighty brawler, and comes commonly by the worst.