In the next place, as far as conveniency will permit, ‘twere fit to fly the Conversation, or at least the Familiarity of profest Swearers. This Advice of declining Infectious Company, tho in a general Caution ever found prevalent against all Vices, has a peculiar property against this: For there being very small (if any) Temptation to it in our natures, it is principally imitated from others, (as when one yawns, most of the Company, though otherwise uninclin’d to that act, do usually yawn out of sympathy) and so subsists but as ‘tis cherish’d by Example and Custom, (its Motive and its Nurse). And therefore, a very effectual Remedy against Swearing, is by conversing where it is discountenanc’d; to starve it by discontinuance, forcing that shame of singularity that first begot it, to make amends for the mischief it has occasion’d, by employing it to the ruin of its own Productions. As Physicians make Scorpions their own Antidote by preparing out of them an Oyl that is Sovereign against their Stings. Lovers of the same Sin, may (methinks) be resembled unto Firebrands, which being laid together, kindle each other by their mutual heat; but being sever’d and kept so asunder, each single Brand, after a little smoaking, does of it self go out.