10% THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.

‘* How Talkative at first lifts up his plumes!
How bravely doth he speak! How he presumes
To drive down all before him! But so soon
As Faithful talks of heart-work, like the moon
That's past the full, into the wane he goes;
And so will all but he who heart-work knows.”’

Thus they went on, talking of what they had seen by the way, and so made that
way easy, which would otherwise, no doubt, have been tedious to them; for now they
went through a wilderness.

CHAPTER VI.

¥ OW, when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced
to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after him, and he knew him.
“Oh!” said Faithful to his brother, “who comes yonder?” Then Christian

looked, and said, “It is my good friend Evangelist.” “Ay, and my good

 

friend too,” said Faithful; “ for it was he that set me the way to the gate.” Now was
Evangelist come up unto them, and thus saluted them :

ivan. Peace be with you, dearly beloved, and peace be to your helpers.

Curis. Welcome, welcome, my good Evangelist: the sight of thy countenance
brings to my remembrance thy ancient kindness and unwearied laboring for my
eternal good.

Farru. “And a thousand times welcome,” said good Faithful: “thy company, O
sweet Evangelist, how desirable is it to us poor pilgrims!”

Evan. Then said Evangelist, “ How hath it fared with you, my friends, since the
time of our last parting? What have you met with, and how have you behaved
yourselves ?”

Then Christian and Faithful told him of all things that had happened to them in
the way ; and how, and with what difficulty, they had arrived to that place.

Evan. “Right glad am I,” said Evangelist, “not that you met with trials, but that
you have been victors, and for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses, con-
tinued in the way to this very day. I say, right glad am I of this thing, and that for
my own sake and yours. I have sowed, and you have reaped; and the day is coming
when ‘both he that sowed and they that reaped shall rejoice together ;’'" that is, if

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you hold out; ‘for in due season you shall reap, if you faint not. The crown is