kept before, who had no more talk but with himſelf, and that ſomtimes ſighingly,and ſomtimes comfortably: alſo he would be often reading in the Roll that one of the mining ones gave him, by which he was refreſhed.
I beheld then, that they all went on till they came to the foot of an Hill, g g He comes to the hill Difficulty at the bottom of which was a g He comes Spring. There was alſo in the ſame place two other ways beſides that which came ſtraight from the Gate; one turned to the left hand, and the other to the right, at the bottom of the Hill: but the narrow way lay right up the Hill (and the name of the going up the ſide of the Hill, is called Difficulty.) Chriſtian now went to the Spring and drank thereof to refreſh himſelf, and then began to go up the Hill; ſaying,
This Hill though high, I covet to aſcend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way to life lies here;
Come, pluck up, Heart; lets neither faint nor fear:
Better, tho difficulty th'right way to go,
Then wrong, though eaſie, where the end is wo.
