The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Atten. I warrant you that Mr. Badman thought when his wife was dead, that next time he would match far better.

Wise. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not hope for it in this match. For here he knew himself to be catched, he knew that he was by this woman entangled, and would therefore have gone back again, but could not. He knew her, I say, to be a Whore before, and therefore could not promise himself a happy life with her. For he or she that will not be true to their own soul, will neither be true to husband nor wife. And he knew that she was not true to her own soul, and therefore could not expect she should be true to him: but Solomon says, An whore is a deep pit, and Mr. Badman found it true. For when she had caught ⟨p. 299⟩him in her pit, she would never leave him till she had got him to promise her Marriage; and when she had taken him so for, she forced him to marry indeed: And after that, they lived that life that I have told you.

Wise. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not hope for it in this match. For here he knew himself to be catcht, he knew that he was by this woman intangled, and would therefore have gone back again, but could not. He knew her, I say, to be a Whore before, and therefore could not promise himself a happy life with her. For he or she that will not be true to their own soul, will neither be true to husband nor wife. And he knew that she was not true to her own soul, and therefore could not expect she should be true to him: but Solomon says, An whore is a deep pit, and Mr. Badman found it true. For when she had caught ⟨p. 299⟩him in her pit, she would never leave him till she had got him to promise her Marriage; and when she had taken him so for, she forced him to marry indeed: And after that, they lived that life that I have told you.