Just then, behold a troop of people from the Street of Pride, knocking
boldly enough at the gate; but they were all so stiff-necked that they
could never enter a place so low without soiling their periwigs and
horns, so they sulkily retraced their steps. In their wake there came up
a group from the Street of Lucre: "And is this the Gate of Life?" asked
one; "Yea," said the watchman overhead. "What must be done to enter?" he
enquired. "Read what is inscribed above the doorway and ye shall know."
The miser read the Ten Commandments through: "Who will say that I have
broken one of these?" he exclaimed. But when he looked up, and saw the
words, "Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world," he was
amazed, and could not swallow that hard saying. There was one, green-
eyed and envious, who turned back when he read: "Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself." There was a gossip and a slanderer who became
dazed on reading: "Thou shalt not bear false witness." When he read,
"Thou shalt not kill," "This is not the place for me" quoth the
physician. In short, everybody saw something which troubled him, and so
they all returned together to consider the matter.
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