For it is all over with you. We
shall meet you again, please God; but when we meet you again, your mind
and memory will be full of shame and remorse and suffering enough to keep
you in songs of repentance for all the rest of your life on earth.
Farewell!
The Pilgrims now, to gratify the flesh,
Will seek its ease; but oh! how they afresh
Do thereby plunge themselves new grieves into:
Who seek to please the flesh themselves undo.
3. The two transgressors had not gone far on their own way when night
came on and with the night a very great darkness. But what soon added to
the horror of their condition was that they heard a man fall into a deep
pit right before them, and it sounded to them as if he was dashed to
pieces by his fall. So they called to know the matter, but there was
none to answer, only they heard a groaning. Then said Hopeful: Where are
we now? Then was his fellow silent, as mistrusting that he had led
Hopeful out of the way. Now, all that also is true to the very life, and
has been taken down by Bunyan from the very life. We have all heard men
falling and heard them groaning just a little before us after we had left
the strait road.
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