The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Atten. But you said that he would also rob his Father, methinks that was an unnatural thing.

Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. Besides, you must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was, for the wickedness that he saw in them, more ⟨p. 21⟩^*firmly knit, than either to Father or Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and Mother and died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as he would have counted, great release and liberty to him: For the truth is, they and their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I forget not, I have heard some say, that when he was, at times, among his Companions, he would greatly^† rejoice to think that his Parents were old, and could not live long, and then, quoth he, I shall be mine own man, to do what I list without their control.

Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. Besides, you must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was, for the wickedness that he saw in them, more ⟨p. 21⟩^*firmly knit, than either to Father or Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and Mother and died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as he would have counted, great release and liberty to him: For the truth is, they and their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I forget not, I have heard some say, that when he was, at times, among his Companions, he would greatly^† rejoyce to think that his Parents were old, and could not live long, and then, quoth he, I shall be mine own man, to do what I list without their controul.