Then said the Prince, And what is he that is become thy companion in this so weighty a matter?
So Mr.Desires-awake told Emmanuel that this was a poor neighbour of his, and one of his most intimate associates.

And his name, said he, may it please your most excellent Majesty, is Wet-eyes, of the town of Mansoul.

I know that there are many of that name that are naught, said he; but I hope it will be no offence to my Lord that I have brought my poor neighbour with me.
Then Mr.Wet-eyes fell on his face to the ground, and made this apology for his coming with his neighbour to his Lord:-- 'Oh, my Lord,' quoth he, 'what I am I know not myself, nor whether my name be feigned or true, especially when I begin to think what some have said, and that is that this name was given me because Mr.Repentance was my father.

But good men have sometimes bad children, and the sincere do sometimes beget hypocrites.

My mother also called me by this name of mine from my cradle; but whether she said so because of the moistness of my brain, or because of the softness of my heart, I cannot tell.