1. Never go into an adventure unless the feeling of your neighbours be with you.
2. Spend no more than you earn—nay, put by every year.
3. Put out no money for show in your business but only for use, save only on the occasion of the Lord Mayor’s Show, your taking of an office, or on the occasion of public holidays, as, when the King’s wife or daughter lies in.
4. Live and let live, for be sure your business can only thrive on the condition that others do also.
5. Vex no man at your door; buy and sell freely.
6. Do not associate with Drunkards, Brawlers and Poets; and God’s blessing be with you.
Now when Jack was grown to about thirty years old, he came, most unfortunately, upon a certain Sir John Snipe, Bart., that was a very scandalous young squire of Oxfordshire, and one that had p
