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The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
The life and death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed by J. A. for Nath. Ponder, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I intimated so much before, when I said, they made him an arch, a chief one in their ways. First, He became a Frequenter of *Taverns and Tippling-houses, and would stay there until he was even as drunk as a Beast. And if it was so, that he could not get out by day, he would, be sure, get out by night. Yea, he became so common a Drunkard, at last, that he was taken notice of to be a Drunkard even by all.
Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I intimated so much before, when I said, they made him an arch, a chief one in their ways. First, He became a Frequenter of *Taverns and Tippling-houses, and would stay there untill he was even as drunk as a Beast. And if it was so, that he could not get out by day, he would, be sure, get out by night. Yea, he became so common a Drunkard, at last, that he was taken notice of to be a Drunkard even by all.
- *Badman becomes a frequenter of Taverns.
Atten. This was Swinish, for Drunkenness is so beastly a sin, a sin ⟨p. 70⟩so much against Nature, that I wonder that any that have but the appearance of Men, can give up themselves to so beastly (yea, worse tha• beastly) a thing.
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