Hon. Say you so? I dare say it was a hard chapter that then he did read unto them. 904

Great-heart. It was so; but he gave them encouragement withal. But what do we talk of them? they were a couple of lion-like men; they had set their faces like flint. Don’t you remember how undaunted they were when they stood before the judge?

Hon. Well, Faithful bravely suffered.

Great-heart. So he did, and as brave things came on it; for Hopeful and some others, as the story relates it, were converted by his death.

Hon. Well, but pray go on; for you are well acquainted with things.