Page:The pilgrims progress as originally published by John Bunyan ; being a facsimile of the first edition (1878).djvu/118

94 much of the day before me, I paſſed by the Porter, and came down the Hill.

Chr. ''He told me indeed that he ſaw you go by, but I wiſh you had called at the Houſe;for they would have ſhewed you ſo many Rarities, that you wo'uld ſcarce have forgot them to the day of your death. But fray tell me, did you meet no body in the Valley'' Humility?

Faith. Yes, I met with one Diſcontent, who would willingly have perſwaded me to go back again with him: his reaſon was, for that the Valley was altogether without Honour; he told me moreover, That there to go, was the way to diſobey all my Friends, as Pride, Arogancy, Self-Conceit, worldly Glory, with others, who he knew,as he ſaid, would be very much offended, if I made ſuch a Fool of my ſelf, as to wade through this Valley.

Chr. Well, and how did you anſwer him?

Faith. I told him, That although all theſe that he named might claim kindred of me, and that rightly, (for indeed they were my Relations, according to the fleſh) yet ſince I became a