with bad luck, for I see the mud of the Slough of Despond is on
your coat. Hear me, for I have seen more of the world than you;
in the way you go, you will meet with pain, woe, thirst, the
sword too,--in a word, death! Take no heed of what Evangelist
tells you.

Christian.--Why, Sir, this load on my back is worse to me than
all those things which you speak of; nay, I care not what I meet
with in the way, if I can but get rid of my load.

Worldly Wiseman.--How did you come by it at first?

Christian.--Why, I read this book.

Worldly Wiseman.--Like more weak men I know, who aim at things
too high for them you have lost heart, and run in the dark at
great risk, to gain you know not what.

Christian.--I know what I would gain, it is ease for my load.

Worldly Wiseman.--But why will you seek for ease thus, when I
could put you in the way to aid it where there would be no risk;
and the cure is at hand.

Christian.--Pray, Sir, tell me what that way is.

Worldly Wiseman.--Well, in yon town, which you can see from
hence--the name of which is Morality--there dwells a man whose
name is Legality, a wise man, and a man of some rank, who has
skill to help men off with such loads as yours from their backs;