Piety.--Come, good Christian, since our love prompts us to take
you in to rest, let us talk with you of all that you have seen on
your way.

Christian.--With a right good will, and I am glad that you should
ask it of me.

Prudence.--And, first, say what is it that makes you wish so much
to go to Mount Zion?

Christian.--Why there I hope to see Him that did die on the
Cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those thing that to this
day grieve and vex me. There, they say, is no death; and there I
shall dwell with such as love the Lord.

Charity.--Have you a wife and babes?

Christian.--Yes, I have.

Charity.--And why did you not bring them with you?

Christian then wept, and said: Oh, how glad should I have been to
do so! but they would not come with me, nor have me leave them.

Charity.--And did you pray to God to put it in their hearts to go
with you?

Christian.--Yes, and that with much warmth, for you may think how
dear they were to me.