Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: In Words of One Syllable

by Samuel Phillips Day

"Come on, man, why do you stay back so?" said Christian. "I like to walk alone," said Ignorance.—[Page 87.]

Chr.—"Ay, ay, I see him: he cares not to be with us."

Hope.—"But I trow it would not have hurt him had he kept pace with us to this time."

Chr.—"That is true: but I wot he doth not think so."

Hope.—"That I think he doth: but, be it so or no, let us wait for him." So they did.

Then Christian did call to him, "Come you on, man: why do you stay back so?"

Ignor.—"I like to walk in this lone way; ay, more a great deal than with folk: that is, save I like them much."

Then said Christian to Hopeful (but in a soft voice), "Did I not tell you he sought to shirk us? But, be this as it may, come up, and let us talk off the time in this lone place."

Then, when he had a long speech with Ignorance, Christian spoke thus to his friend, "Well, come, my good Hopeful, I see that thou and I must walk side by side once more."