for a quiet and peaceable life, though it wanteth a good
foundation.

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. Know-All did first give in
his evidence against him.