trial. and wickedly, and that when thou wert an officer Incredulity's in the town of Mansoul, made head against the captains of the great King Shaddai when they came and demanded possession of Mansoul; yea, thou didst bid defiance to the name, forces, and cause of the King, and didst also, as did Diabolus thy captain, stir up and encourage the town of Mansoul to make head against and resist the said force of the King. What sayest thou to this indictment? Art thou guilty of it, or not? Then said Incredulity, "I know not Shaddai; His plea. I love my old prince; I thought it my duty to be true to my trust, and to do what I could to possess the minds of the men of Mansoul to do their utmost to resist strangers and foreigners, and with might to fight against them. Nor have I, nor shall I change my opinion for fear of trouble, though you at present are possessed of place and power." Then said the Court, "The man, as you see, is incorrigible; he is for maintaining his villanies by stoutness of words, and his rebellion with impudent confidence; and therefore set him by, gaoler, and set Mr Forget-Good to the bar." Forget-Good set to the bar. Clerk. Mr Forget-Good, thou art here indicted by the name of Forget-Good, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou, when the whole affairs of the town of Mansoul were in thy hand, didst utterly forget to serve them in what was good, and didst fall in with the tyrant Diabolus against Shaddai the King, against his captains and all his host, to the dishonour of Shaddai, the breach Forget Good set to the bar; his indictment. FalsePeace's trial. by it charged for evil-doing because you are a man of peace, or a peace-maker among your neighbours; but for that you did wickedly and satanically bring, keep, and hold the town of Mansoul, both under its apostasy from, and in its rebellion against its King, in a false, lying, and damnable peace, contrary to the law of Shaddai, and to the hazard of the destruction of the then miserable town of Mansoul. All that you have pleaded for yourself is, that you have denied your name, &c. ; but here, you see, we have witnesses to prove that you are the man. For the peace that you so much boast of making among your neighbours, know that peace that is not a companion of truth and holiness, but that which is without this foundation, is grounded upon a lie, and is both deceitful and damnable, as also the great Shaddai hath said. Thy plea, therefore, hath not delivered thee from what, by the indictment, thou art charged with, but rather it doth fasten all upon thee. But thou shalt have very fair play. Let us call the witnesses that are to testify as to matter of fact, and see what they have to say for our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar. Clerk. Mr Know-All, what say you for our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar? Know. My lord, this man hath of a long time made it, to my knowledge, his business to keep the town of Mansoul in a sinful quietness in the midst of all her lewdness, filthiness, and turmoils, and hath said, and that in my hearing, Come, come, let us fly from all trouble, on what ground soever it comes, and let us be for a quiet and peaceable life, though it wanteth a good founda- False tion. Clerk. Come, Mr Hate-Lies, what have you to say? Hate. My lord, I have heard him say, that peace, though in a way of unrighteousness, is better than trouble with truth. Clerk. Where did you hear him say this? Hate. I heard him say it in Folly- Yard, at the house of one Mr Simple, next door to the sign of the Self-Deceiver. Yea, he hath said this to my knowledge twenty times in that place. Clerk. We may spare further witness; this evidence is plain and full. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr No-Truth to the bar. Mr No-Truth, thou art here indicted by the name of No-Truth, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou hast always, to the dishonour of Shaddai, and the endangering of the utter ruin of the famous town of Mansoul, set thyself to deface, and utterly to spoil all the remainders of the law and image of Shaddai that have been found in Mansoul after her deep apostasy from her King to Diabolus, the envious tyrant. What sayest thou; art thou guilty of this indictment, or not? No. Not guilty, my lord. Then the witnesses were called, and Mr KnowAll did first give in his evidence against him. Know. My lord, this man was at the pulling down of the image of Shaddai; yea, this is he that did it with his own hands. I myself stood by and saw him do it, and he did it at the commandment Peace's Mr No Truth set to the bar; his indictment. His plea. Witnesse.. No-Truth's trial. Pitiless set to the bar: his indictment. of Diabolus. Yea, this Mr No-Truth did more than this, he did also set up the horned image of the beast Diabolus in the same place. This also is he that, at the bidding of Diabolus, did rend and tear, and cause to be consumed, all that he could of the remainders of the law of the King, even whatever he could lay his hands on in Mansoul. Clerk. Who saw him do this besides yourself? Hate. I did, my lord, and so did many more besides; for this was not done by stealth, or in a corner, but in the open view of all; yea, he chose himself to do it publicly, for he delighted in the doing of it. Clerk. Mr No-Truth, how could you have the face to plead not guilty, when you were so manifestly the doer of all this wickedness? No. Sir, I thought I must say something, and as my name is, so I speak: I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know but by speaking no truth, I might have reaped the same benefit now. Clerk. Set him by, gaoler, and set Mr Pitiless to the bar. Mr Pitiless, thou art here indicted by the name of Pitiless, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst most traitorously and wickedly shut up all bowels of compassion, and wouldest not suffer poor Mansoul to condole her own misery when she had apostatised from her rightful King, but didst evade, and at all times turn her mind awry from those thoughts that had in them a tendency to lead her to repentance. What sayest thou to this indictment; guilty or not guilty? "Not guilty of pitilessness: all I did was to His plea. cheer up, according to my name, for my name is not Pitiless, but Cheer-Up; and I could not abide to see Mansoul inclined to melancholy." Clerk. How! do you deny your name, and say it is not Pitiless, but Cheer-Up? Call for the witnesses. What say you, the witnesses, to this plea? Know. My lord, his name is Pitiless; so he hath written himself in all papers of concern wherein he has had to do. But these Diabolonians love to counterfeit their names: Mr Covetousness covers himself with the name of Good-Husbandry, or the like; Mr Pride can, when need is, call himself Mr Neat, Mr Handsome, or the like; and so of all the rest of them. Clerk. Mr Tell-True, what say you? Tell. His name is Pitiless, my lord. I have known him from a child, and he hath done all that wickedness whereof he stands charged in the indictment; but there is a company of them that are not acquainted with the danger of damning, therefore they call all those melancholy that have serious thoughts as to how that state should be shunned by them. Haughty set to the bar; ment. Clerk. Set Mr Haughty to the bar, gaoler. Mr Haughty, thou art here indicted by the name his indictof Haughty, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst most traitorously and devilishly teach the town of Mansoul to carry it loftily and stoutly against the summons that was given them by the captains of the King Shaddai. Thou didst also teach the town of Mansoul to |