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 who was juſt now entering into the laſt year of his apprenticeſhip, and imagined his actions were above the cognizance of one, who the other day was but his equal; and on this account would neither bear his reproof, nor hearken to his admonition, but continued to riot in all the follies and degeneracies of human nature, till his apprenticeſhip was expired. So true it is, "That the wicked hateth reproof, but the wiſe man lendeth his ear to inſtruction."

Mr. Francis, having been for a long while impatient of a ſervile life, was now become his own maſter, and it ſeemed eager of putting himſelf upon a level with his late companion. To effect this, he goes down to his father, and prevails upon him to ſet him up in the buſineſs, that he might trade for himſelf. The reins were no ſooner laid on his neck, than he gave a looſe to his ſenſual appetites, and in little more than four years, had a ſtatute of bankruptcy