The Holy War – John Bunyan

Neat, Mr. Handsome, or the like, and so of all the rest of them.[9]
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 [as to] how that state should be shunned by them.
CLERK. Set Mr. Haughty to the bar, jailer.
Mr. Haughty, Thou art here indicted by the name of Haughty, an
intruder upon the town of Mansoul, for that thou didst most traitorously and
devilishly teach the town of Mansoul to carry it loftily and stoutly against the
summons that was given them by the captains of the King Shaddai. Thou
didst also teach the town of Mansoul to speak contemptuously and
vilifyingly of their great King Shaddai; and didst moreover encourage, both
by words and example, Mansoul to take up arms, both against the King and
his son Emmanuel. How sayest thou? Art thou guilty of this indictment, or
not?
HAUGHTY. Gentlemen, I have always been a man of courage and
valour, and have not used when under the greatest clouds, to sneak or hang
down the head like a bulrush; nor did it at all at any time please me to see
men veil their bonnets[10] to those that have opposed them; yea, though their
adversaries seemed to have ten times the advantage of them. I did not use to
consider who was my foe, nor what the cause was in which I was engaged. It
was enough to me if I carried it bravely, fought like a man, and came off a
victor.
COURT. Mr. Haughty, you are not here indicted for that you have been
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