name of which is Vanity, where there is a fair kept through the
whole year, and all that is bought or sold there is vain and void
of worth. There, too, are to be seen at all times games, plays,
fools, apes, knaves, and rogues. Yet he that will go to The
Celestial City must needs pass through this fair.

As soon as Christian and Faithful came to the town, a crowd drew
round them, and some said they had lost their wits, to dress and
speak as they did, and to set no store by the choice goods for
sale in Vanity Fair. When Christian spoke, his words brought from
these folks fierce taunts and jeers, and soon the noise and stir
grew to such a height that the chief man of the fair sent his
friends to take up these two strange men, and he bade them tell
him whence they came, and what they did there in such a garb.
Christian and Faithful told them all; but those who sat to judge
the case thought that they must be mad, or else that they had
come to stir up strife at the fair; so they beat them with
sticks, and put them in a cage, that they might be a sight for
all the men at the fair. Then the worse sort of folks set to pelt
them with mud out of spite, and some threw stones at them for
mere sport; but Christian and Faithful gave good words for bad,
and bore all in such a meek way, that not a few took their part.
This led to blows and fights, and the blame was laid on Christian
and Faithful, who were then made to toil up and down the fair in
chains, till, faint with stripes, they were at length set with
their feet in the stocks. But they bore their griefs and woes
with joy, for they saw in them a pledge that all should be well
in the end.

By and by a court sat to try them: the name of the judge was Lord