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 man, ſeeing they are both uſeful and. Tea and Tobacco are per-nicious weeds, and grand thieves, and hanging more than High-waymen, for they pick the pockets of the whole nation. What's the diffe-rence between ale-drapers and linen-drapers; Only this, One cheats you with froth, and the other with cloth. If extortioners cannot enter the king-dom of Heaven, where muſt Uſurers, Tallymnen and Pawn-brokers go? By Cards and Dice a man is ruined in a trice; for gaming and whoring of-ten hang together. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody near relations, for they equally live by killing and ſlaughtering. I never ſee a Taylor, but he puts me in mind of cabbage, nor a Miller, or a Weaver, but I think of a Thief. Actors and Apes are the greateſt mimicks in the world; it is hard to determine whether they are rational creatures. Now good wo-men and good ſmall beer are hard to be found;, yet thoſe are good in their kind. A ſober wiſe boy is preferable to a vicious grey-headed old fool, like as a living Dog is better than a dead