perpetual commemoration of his servants cordial respect and honesty. _View oft his Tomb-stone, since we seldome find, A servant faithful, and his Master kind._ Now to the intent I might compleat my conquest of his heart, I pretended my self an _Independent_, not omitting any opportunity of going to their meetings; and upon all occasions would rail against Steeple-houses (as we called them) and tear the Bishops holland sleaves to pieces, calling them the impure rags of the Babylonish Whores Smock, &c. I would pray mornings and evenings so loud, so late, and so early, that my neighbours could hardly sleep for me, much less those of our own Family. Notwithstanding all this piety, not a day past wherein I cheated not my Master. Thus did I delude his eyes with pretended sanctity, yet concluded with the Poet, _Da mihi fallere, da justum Sanctumque videri, Noctem peccatis & fraudibus objice nubem._ _Let me seem just; to cheat the better shrow’d, Let my deceits be hidden in a Cloud._ How much did I silly fool deceive my self, thinking my self secure, because no mortal eye saw me. Be not thus cheated as I was, for assure your self there is no darkness so thick and obscure, which the All-over-seeing and Eternal piercing eye cannot penetrate—— _Cernit Deus omnia vindex._ A passage remarkable in _Erasmus_ I read to this purpose concerning a young Gentleman, whom a wanton Lady tempted, who used this expression as his last and best Refuge. _Art not thou ashamed to do that in the sight of thy Maker, and the Holy Angels, which thou art ashamed to do in the sight of men._ We are afraid of disgrace with men, not caring for the Grace of God. [Illustration] CHAP. X. _How he came acquainted with lewd and vicious Apprentices. What Trade they drove together. What places and times of meeting._