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 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 how that state should
be shunned by them.

Clerk. Set Mr. Haughty to the bar, gaoler. Mr. Haughty, thou art