I got moft of my Eftate by the fame Occupation. * *The Wife Chr. Are you a married Man? By-ends. Yes, and my Wife is a very virtuous Woman, the Daughter of a vir- and Kindred of By-ends. tuous Woman; fhe was my Lady Feigning's Daughter, therefore fhe came of a very honourable Family, and is arrived to fuch a Pitch of Breeding, that she knows how to carry it to all, even to Prince and Peafant. It is true, we fomewhat differ † Where Byends differs in Religion from thofe of the Stricter Sort, yet but in two small Points: Firft, We from others in Religion. never ftrive against Wind and Tide. Secondly, We are always moft zealous when Religion 'goes in his Silver Slippers; we love much to walk with him in the Street, if the Sun fhines, and the People applaud him. C Then Chriftian ftept a little afide to his Fellow Hopeful, faying, it runs in my Mind that this is one By-ends of FairSpeech; and if it be he, we have as very a Knave in our Company as dwelleth in all thofe Parts. Then faid Hopeful, Afk him, methinks he fhould not be ashamed of his Name. So Chriftian came up with him again, and faid, Sir, You talk as if you knew fomething more than all the World doth; and, if I take not my Mark amiis, I deem I have half a Guess of you: Is not your Name Mr. By-ends of Fair-Speech? By-ends. This is not my Name, but indeed it is a Nick-name that is given me by fome that cannot abide me, and I must be content to bear it as a Reproach, as other other good Men have borne theirs before me. Chr. But did you never give an Occafion to Men to call you by this Name? By-ends. Never, never! the worse that ever I did to give them an Occasion to give me this Name was,† that I had always the Luck to jump in my Judgment with the present Way of the Times whatever it was, and my Chance was to get thereby; but if Things are thus caft upon me let me count them a Bleffing; but let not the Malicious load me therefore with Reproach, Chr. I thought indeed that you were the Man that I heard of; and to tell you what I think I fear this Name belongs to you more properly than you are willing we fhould think it doth. By-ends. Well, if you will thus imagine, me your Affociate. Chr. If you will go with us, you must go against Wind and Tide; the which, I perceive, is against your Opinion: You muft alfo own Religion in his Rags as well as when in his Silver Slippers; and ftand by him too when bound in Irons, as well as when he walketh the Streets with Applause. By-ends. You must not impose, nor lord it over my Faith; leave me to my Liberty. and let me go with you. Chr. Not a Step farther, unless you will do in what I propound as we. Then Then faid By-ends, I fhall never defert my old Principles, fince they are harmless and profitable. * If I may not go with By ends you, I must do as I did before you over- and Chriftian took me, even go by myfelf, until fome part. overtake me that will be glad of my Company. Then I faw in my Dream, that Chriftian and Hopeful forfook him, and kept their Distance before him; but one of them looking back, faw three Men following Mr. By-ends, and behold as they came up with him, he made them a very low Congee; and they also gave him a Compliment. The Mens' Names were Mr. + He has Hold-the-World, Mr. Money-love, and Mr. new CompaSave-all; Men that Mr. By-ends had for- nions. merly been acquainted with; for in their Minority they were School-Fellows, and taught by one Mr. Gripeman, a Schoolmafter in Love-gain, which is a Market, Town in the County of Coveting, in the North. This School-mafter taught them the Art of getting, either by Violence, Cozenage, Flattery, Lying, or by putting on a Guife of Religion; and these four Gentlemen had attained much of the Art of their Mafter, fo that they could each of them have kept fuch a School themselves. Well, when they had, as I faid, thus faluted each other, Mr. Money-love faid to Mr. By-ends, Who are they upon the Road before us? For Chriftian and Hopeful were yet within View. By-ends • By-end's Character of the Pilgrims. By-ends. They are a Couple of fat Country-men, that after their Mode are going on Pilgrimage. Money-love. Alas! why did not they stay that we might have had their good Company, for they, and we, and you, Sir, I hope, are going on Pilgrimage. By-ends. We are fo, indeed; but the Men before us are fo rigid, and love fo much their own Notions, and do also so lightly esteem the Opinion of others, that let a Man be never fo godly, yet if he jumps not with them in all Things, they thrust him quite out of their Company. Mr. Save-all. That is bad, but we read of fome that are righteous over-much, and fuch Mens' Rigidnefs prevails with them to judge and condemn all but themselves; but I pray what, and how many, were the Things wherein you differed? 1 By ends. Why they, after their headftrong Manner, conclude that it is their Duty to rush on their Journey all Weathers, and I am for waiting for Wind and Tide. They are for hazarding all for God at a Clap, and I am for taking all Advantages to fecure my Life and Eftate. They are for holding their Notions, though all other Men be against them; but I am for Religion, in what, and fo far as the Times and my Safety will bear it. They are for Religion when in Rags and Contempt, but I am for him when he walks in his Silver Slippers in the Sunshine, and with Applaufe. Mr. Mr. Hold-the-World. Ay, and hold you there ftill, good Mr. By-ends; for, for: my Part, I can count him but a Fool, that having the Liberty to keep what he has, fhall be fo unwife as to lofe it. Let us be wife as Serpents; it is best to make Hay when the Sun fhines; you fee how. the Bee lieth ftill all Winter, and beftirs her only when he can have Profit with Pleasure. God fends fometimes Rain, and. fometimes Sun-fhine: If, they be fuch Fools to go through the first, yet let us. be content to take fair. Weather along with us. For my. Part, I like that Reli-· gion beft, that will ftand with the Secu rity of God's good Bleffings onto us: For who can imagine, that is ruled by his Reason, fince God has beftowed upon us, the good Things of this Life, but that he' would have us keep them for his Sake. Abrebam and Solomon grew rich in Religion. And Job fays, That a good Man fhall lay up Gold as Duft. But he must not: be fuch as the Men before us, if they be as you have defcribed them. Mr. Save-all. I think that we are all agreed in this Matter, and therefore there needs no more Words about it. Mr. Money-love. No, there needs no more Words about this Matter indeed; for he that believes neither Scripture nor Reason (and you fee we have both on our Side) neither knows his own Liberty, nor feeks his own Safety, Mr. By-ends. My Brethren, we are, as you fee, going all on Pilgrimage, and. for our better Diverfion from Things that |