The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Wise. I will so. When he was but a Child, he was so addicted to ^*Lying, that his Parents scarce knew when to believe he spake true; yea, he would invent; tell, and stand to the Lies that he invented and told, and that with such an audacious face, that one might even read in his very countenance the symptoms of an hard and desperate heart this way.

Wise. I will so. When he was but a Child, he was so addicted to ^*Lying, that his Parents scarce knew when to believe he spake true; yea, he would invent; tell, and stand to the Lyes that he invented and told, and that with such an audacious face, that one might even read in his very countenance the symptoms of an hard and desperate heart this way.

1. *[…] addicted to Lying from a child.〈…〉 addicted to Lying from a child.

Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly told and stood ⟨p. 13⟩in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way in Lying) but he must as it were force his own heart unto it. Yea, he must make his ^*heart hard, and bold to do it: Yea, he must be arrived to an exceeding pitch of▪ wickedness thus to do, since all this he did against that good education, that before you seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother.

Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly told and stood