Pilgrim's Progress §49: CHR.

CHR. I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the Slough of Despond, who persuaded me that I might, in the village before me, find a man that would take off my burden. EVAN. What was he? CHR. He looked like a gentleman, and talked much to me, and got me at last to yield; so I came hither; but when I beheld this hill, and how it hangs over the way, I suddenly made a stand lest it should fall on my head. EVAN. What said that gentleman to you? CHR. Why, he asked me whither I was going, and I told him. EVAN. And what said he then? CHR. He asked me if I had a family? And I told him. But, said I, I am so loaden with the burden that is on my back, that I cannot take pleasure in them as formerly. EVAN. And what said he then?