'Here lies a man who had a brow for every good cause.' So it was engraven over one of Boston's elders.

And so is it always: like priest, like people in the matter of the hang of the minister's tongue and in the boldness of the elder's brow.
'Bravely hung' is an ancient and excellent expression which has several shades of meaning in Bunyan.

But in the present instance its meaning is modified and fixed by judgment.

A bravely hung tongue; at the same time the parish minister of Mansoul's tongue was not a loosely-hung tongue.

It was not a blustering, headlong, scolding, untamed tongue.