VALIANT. Well, I perceive whereabouts you are as to this. Have you any more things to ask me about my beginning to come on pilgrimage?[288]
GREAT-HEART, Yes. Was your father and mother willing that you should become a pilgrim?
VALIANT. O no! They used all means imaginable to persuade me to stay at home.
GREAT-HEART, What could they say against it?
VALIANT. They said it was an idle life; and if I myself were not inclined to sloth and laziness, I would never countenance a pilgrim's condition.[289]
GREAT-HEART. And what did they say else?
VALIANT. Why, they told me that it was a dangerous way; yea, the most dangerous way in the world, said they, is that which the pilgrims go.
GREAT-HEART. Did they show wherein this way is so dangerous?
VALIANT. Yes; and that in many particulars.
GREAT-HEART. Name some of them.