Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th…

For where ungodly people do dwell together, they being a snare and stumbling Block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a Torment one to another, and an aggravation of each others damnation. O cursed be thy Face, saith one, that ever I set mine Eyes on thee: It was long of thee; I may thank thee: It was thee that did entice me and ensnare me: It was your filthy conversation that was as a stumbling-block to me: It was your Covetousness, it was your Pride, your haunting the Alehouse, your Gaming and Whoring: It was long of you, that I fell short of life; if you had set me a good Example, as you did set me an ill one, it may be I might have done better then now I do: But I learned of you, I followed your steps, I took counsel of you. O that I had never seen thy face! O that thou hadst never bin born, to do my Soul this wrong as you have done: O saith the other, And I may as much blame you; for do not you remember how at such a time, and at such a time, you drew me out, and drew me away, and asked me if I would go with you, when I was going about other business, about my Calling, but you called me away, you sent for me, you are as much in the fault as I; though I were covetous you were proud; and if you learned Covetousness of me, I learned Pride and Drunkenness of you: Though I learned you to cheat, you learned me to where to lye, to scoff at goodness. Though I base Wretch did stumble you in some things, yet you did as much stumble me in others. I can blame you, as ⟨p. 96⟩you blame me▪ and if I have to answer for some of your most […] […], you have to answer for some of mine. I would you had not come hither, the very looks of you doth wou•d my Soul, by bringing my sins afresh into my mind, the time when, the manner how, the place where, the persons with whom: It was with you, you! grief to my Soul! since I could not shun thy company there, Oh! that I had been without thy company here.

For where ungodly people do dwel together, they being a snare and stumbling Block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a Torment one to another, and an aggravation of each others damnation. O cursed be thy Face, saith one, that ever I set mine Eyes on thee: It was long of thee; I may thank thee: It was thee that did intice me and insnare me: It was your filthy conversation that was as a stumbling-block to me: It was your Covetousness, it was your Pride, your haunting the Alehouse, your Gaming and Whoring: It was long of you, that I fell short of life; if you had set me a good Example, as you did set me an ill one, it may be I might have done better then now I do: But I learned of you, I followed your steps, I took counsel of you. O that I had never seen thy face! O that thou hadst never bin born, to do my Soul this wrong as you have done: O saith the other, And I may as much blame you; for do not you remember how at such a time, and at such a time, you drew me out, and drew me away, and asked me if I would go with you, when I was going about other business, about my Calling, but you called me away, you sent for me, you are as much in the fault as I; though I were covetous you were proud; and if you learned Covetousness of me, I learned Pride and Drunkenness of you: Though I learned you to cheat, you learned me to where to lye, to scoff at goodness. Though I base Wretch did stumble you in some things, yet you did as much stumble me in others. I can blame you, as