welcome, good Mr Ready-to-halt, I hope thee and may be some help.

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Ready-to-halt. I shall be glad of thy company, said the other; and, good Mr Feeble-mind, rather than we will part, since we are thus happily met, I will lend thee one of my crutches.

Feeble. Nay, said he, though I thank thee for thy good-will, I am not inclined to halt before I am lame. Howbeit, I think, when occasion is, it may help me against a dog.

Ready. If either myself or my crutches can do thee a pleasure, we are both at thy command, good Mr Feeble-mind.

Thus therefore they went on; Mr Great-heart and Mr Honest went before, Christiana and her children went next, and Mr Feeble-mind and Mr Ready-to-halt came behind with his crutches. Then said Mr Honest

Hon. Pray, Sir, now we are upon the road, tell New talk. us some profitable things of some that have gone on pilgrimage before us.

Great-heart. With a good will. I suppose you have heard how Christian of old did meet with First Part, pp. 59-67, Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation; and also 74-79 what hard work he had, to go through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Also I think you cannot but have heard how Faithful was put to it with Madam Wanton, with Adam the First, with one Discontent, and Shame, four as deceitful villains as a man can meet with upon the road.

Hon. Yes, I have heard of all this; but indeed,

First Part, p. 82.

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p. 96.

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p. 105.

good Faithful was hardest put to it with Shame; he was an unwearied one.

Great-heart. Ay; for, as the pilgrim well said, he of all men had the wrong name.

Hon. But pray, Sir, where was it that Christian and Faithful met Talkative? That same was also

a notable one.

Great-heart.

follow his ways.

He was a confident fool, yet many

Hon. He had liked to have beguiled Faithful.
Great-heart. Ay, but Christian put him into a
way quickly to find him out.
Thus they went on

till they came at the place where Evangelist met
with Christian and Faithful, and prophesied to
them of what should befall them at Vanity Fair.

Great-heart. Then said their guide, Hereabouts did Christian and Faithful meet with Evangelist, who prophesied to them of what troubles they should meet with at Vanity Fair.

Hon. Say you so? I dare say it was a hard chapter that then he did read unto them.

Great-heart. It was so; but he gave them encouragement withal. But what do we talk of them? they were a couple of lion-like men; they had set their faces like flint. Don't you remember how undaunted they were when they stood before the judge?

Hon. Well, Faithful bravely suffered.

Great-heart. So he did, and as brave things came on it; for Hopeful and some others, as the story relates it, were converted by his death.

Hon. Well, but pray go on; for you are well acquainted with things.

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Great-heart. Above all that Christian met with First Part, after he had passed through Vanity Fair, one By. ends was the arch one.

Hon. By-ends! what was he?

Great-heart. A very arch fellow; a downright hypocrite. One that would be religious which way ever the world went; but so cunning that he would be sure neither to lose nor suffer for it. He had his mode of religion for every fresh occasion; and his wife was as good at it as he. He would turn and change from opinion to opinion; yea, and plead for so doing too. But, so far as I could learn, he came to an ill end with his by-ends; nor did I ever hear that any of his children were ever of any esteem with any that truly feared God.

Now, by this time, they were come within sight of the town of Vanity, where Vanity Fair is kept. So, when they saw that they were so near the town, they consulted with one another, how they should pass through the town; and some said one thing, and some another. At last Mr Great-heart said, I have, as you may understand, often been a conductor of pilgrims through this town; now I am acquainted with one Mr Mnason, a Cyprusian by nation, an old disciple, at whose house we may think good, said he, we will turn in

lodge. If you

there.

Content, said old Honest; Content, said Christiana; Content, said Mr Feeble-mind; and so they said all. Now, you must think, it was eventide by that they got to the outside of the town; but Mr Great-heart knew the way to the old man's house. So thither they came; and he called at the door,

They are sight of

come within

Vanity.

They enter Mnason's to lodge. Acts 21. 16.

into one Mr