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The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
The life and death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed by J. A. for Nath. Ponder, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Atten. But his Father would, a• you intimate, sometimes rebuke him for his wickedness; pray how would he carry it then?
Wise. How! why,1 like to a Thief that is found. He would stand *gloating, and hanging down his head in a sullen, pouching manner, (a body might read, as we use to say, the picture of Ill-luck in his face,) and when his Father did demand his answer to such questions concerning his Villainy, he would grumble and mutter at him, and that should be all he could get.
Wise. How! why,1 like to a Thief that is found. He would stand *gloating, and hanging down his head in a sullen, pouching manner, (a body might read, as we use to say, the picture of Ill-luck in his face,) and when his Father did demand his answer to such questions concerning his Villany, he would grumble and mutter at him, and that should be all he could get.
- 1Jer. 2. 26.
- *How Badman did use to carry it when his Father used to chide him for his sins.
Atten. But you said that he would also rob his Father, methinks that was an unnatural thing.