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.
FATHER.
By my faith, this is none of the worst neither, for if he brawl
and be beaten for it, it will in time make him shun it: For
what brings man or child more to virtue than correction?
What reigns over him else?
UNCLE.
He is a great drinker, and one that will forget himself.
FATHER.
O best of all! vice should be forgotten; let him drink on,
so he drink not churches. Nay, and this be the worst, I
hold it rather a happiness in him, than any iniquity. Hath
he any more attendants?
UNCLE.
Brother, he is one that will borrow of any man.
FATHER.
Why, you see, so doth the sea: it borrows of all the small
currents in the world, to increase himself.
UNCLE.
Aye, but the sea pales it again, and so will never your son.
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