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Rh , I heard ſome of them deridingly ſpeak of you, and of your deſperate Journey, (for ſfo they called this your Pilgrimage) but I did believe, and do ſtill, that the end of our City will be with Fire and Brimſtone from above: and therefore I have made mine eſcape.

Chr. Did you hear no talk of Neighbhour Pliable?

Faith. Yes Chriſtian, I heard that he followed you till he came at the Slough of Diſpond; where, as ſome ſaid, he fell in; but he would not be blown to have ſo done: but I am ſure was foundly bedabled with that kind of dirt.

Chr. And what ſaid the Neighbours to him?

Faith. He hath ſince his going back been had greatly in deriſion, and that among all ſorts of people: ſome do mock and deſpife him, and ſcarce will any ſet him on work. He is now ſeven times worſe then if he had never gone put of the City.

Chr. But why ſhould they be ſo ſet againſt him ſince they alſo deſpife the way that he forſook? Rh