‘In hopes thou'lt give me up thy Body, I resign thee up my Soul.
‘A Villain, but a repenting Villain; Stuff which Saints in all Ages have been made of.
‘Satan and his Equipage; Woman tempted me, Lust weakened me, and so the Devil overcame me; as fell Adam, so fell I.
A Bill was likewise found against the Players of the other House, in the Term abovementioned, for the following Expressions; but the Indictement being wrong laid, they were acquitted: but they were Indicted the Term following for the same, which Indictment is not yet tried.
In the Humour of the Age.
‘Marriage, that was only contriv'd for the meaner Rank; tell me of Marriage, commend me to a Whore.
‘Every serious Thought, was so much Time lost.
‘We address you with the same awful Reverence we petition Heaven.
In Sir Courtly Nice.
‘Nay, his Salvation is a Looking-Glass, for there he finds his eternal Happiness, Surly's Heaven, at least his Priest is his Claret-Glass, for to that he confesses all his Sins, and from it receives Absolution and Comfort. But his Damnation is a Looking-Glass, for there he finds an eternal Fire in his Nose.