I previously observed, that no other motive but their welfare could induce me to this; that I was their fellow prisoner, and now got nothing by preaching.

I was sorry, I said, to hear them so very prophane; because they got nothing by it, but might lose a great deal: 'For be assured, my friends,' cried I, 'for you are my friends, however the world may disclaim your friendship, though you swore twelve thousand oaths in a day, it would not put one penny in your purse.

Then what signifies calling every moment upon the devil, and courting his friendship, since you find how scurvily he uses you.

He has given you nothing here, you find, but a mouthful of oaths and an empty belly; and by the best accounts I have of him, he will give you nothing that's good hereafter.
'If used ill in our dealings with one man, we naturally go elsewhere.
Were it not worth your while then, just to try how you may like the usage of another master, who gives you fair promises at least to come to him.

Surely, my Friends, of all stupidity in the world, his must be greatest, who, after robbing an house, runs to the thieftakers for protection.