I.
A Promise is a childe of the Vnderstanding and the Will: the Vnderstanding begets it, the Will brings it forth: He that performes it, delives the Mother. He that breaketh it, murthers the Childe. If it be gotten in absence of the Vnderstanding, it is a Bastard, but the child must be kept. If thou mistrust the Vnderstanding, promise not; If thou hast promised, breake it not. It is better to maintaine a Bastard, then to murther a childe.