plain simple countryman, having the appearance of a husbandman or a
shepherd.

As my father was not able to maintain the argument on his side, so
neither did they seem willing to drive it to an extremity on their
side; but treating him in a soft and gentle manner, did after a
while let fall the discourse, and then we withdrew to our respective
chambers.

The next morning we prepared to return home (that is, my father, my
younger sister, and myself, for my elder sister was gone before by
the stage-coach to London), and when, having taken our leaves of our
friends, we went forth, they, with Edward Burrough, accompanying us
to the gate, he there directed his speech in a few words to each of
us severally, according to the sense he had of our several
conditions. And when we were gone off, and they gone in again, they
asking him what he thought of us, he answered them, as they
afterwards told me, to this effect: "As for the old man, he is
settled on his lees, and the young woman is light and airy; but the
young man is reached, and may do well if he does not lose it." And
surely that which he said to me, or rather that spirit in which he
spoke it, took such fast hold on me, that I felt sadness and trouble
come over me, though I did not distinctly understand what I was
troubled for. I knew not what I ailed, but I knew I ailed something
more than ordinary, and my heart was very heavy.

I found it was not so with my father and sister, for as I rode after
the coach I could hear them talk pleasantly one to the other; but
they could not discern how it was with me, because I, riding on
horseback, kept much out of sight.