His father too. There’s Scripture too for that!

Do we owe fathers nothing—mothers nought?

Is filial duty folly? Yet He says,

‘He that loves father, mother more than me;’

Yea, and ‘the man his parents shall desert,’

The Ordinance says, ‘and cleave unto his wife.’

O man, behold thy wife, the hard naked world;

Adam, accept thy Eve.

So still it is,

The tree exhausts the soil; creepers kill it,