_Faith._ Yes, but I met with one, whose name was _Wanton_, that had like to have done me a mischief. _Christian._ How did you avoid it? _Faith._ I remembered an old writing, which said, _Her steps take hold of hell_. So I shut my eyes. Then she railed on me, and I went my way. _Christian._ Did you meet with no other assault? _Faith._ Yes: at the foot of the hill _Difficulty_, I met with a very aged man, who asked, “If I would be content to live with him?” I asked him his name; he said it was _Adam the First_. I asked what wages he would give? He told me, I should be his heir. Then I asked, how long time he would have me live with him? And he told me, “As long as he lived himself.” _Christian._ And what conclusion did you come to? _Faith._ At first I was inclined to go with him; but looking on his forehead, I saw there written, _Put off the old man with his deeds_. _Christian._ And how then? _Faith._ Then it came strongly into my mind, that however he flattered me now, when he got me home to his house, he would sell me for a slave. So I bade him say no more, for I would not come near the door of his house. Then he reviled me and said, “He would send such a one after me, as would make my way bitter to my soul.” So I turned away from him; but just as I turned, I felt him take hold of my flesh, and give me such a deadly twitch, that I thought he had pulled part of me after him. This made me cry, _O wretched man!_ So I went on up the hill. When I was but half-way up, I looked behind me and saw one coming after me, swift as the wind. So soon as he overtook me, down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. When I was come a little to myself I asked him, Why he used me so? He said, for inclining to _Adam the First_. And with that he struck me another blow on the breast, and beat me down backward. When I came to myself again, I cried for mercy. But he said, “I know not to shew mercy;” and knocked me down again. He had doubtless made an end of me; but that one came by, and bade him “forbear.” _Christian._ Who was he that bid him forbear? _Faith._ I did not know him at first; but as he went by, I saw the holes in his hands and in his side. _Christian._ The man that overtook you was _Moses_. He spareth none that transgress his law. But did you not see the house on the top of the hill? _Faith._ Yes; but it was about noon. So I past by. _Christian._ Did you meet no one in the valley of _Humiliation_? _Faith._ Yes, I met with one _Shame_: but I think he bears the wrong name; for I could not get quit of him. He would never have done. _Christian._ Why, what did he say to you?