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Second half of Part two, the
sixth stage. Now the cook sent up

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to signify that supper was almost ready, and sent one to lay the cloth

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and the trenches, and to set
the salt and bread in order. Then

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said Matthew, the sight of this
cloth and of this forerunner of the supper

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begetteth in me a greater appetite for
my food than I had before Gaius.

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So let all ministering doctrines to thee
in this life beget in thee a greater

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desire to sit at the supper of
the Great King in his kingdom. For

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all preaching books and ordinances here a
butt as the laying of the trenches and

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the setting of salt upon the board, when compared with the feast which our

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Lord will make for us when we
come to his house. So supper came

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up, and first a heave shoulder
and a wave breast were set on the

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table before them, to show that
they must begin their meal with prayer and

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praise to God. The heave shoulder
David lifted up his heart to God with

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and with the wave breast where his
heart lay. He used to lean upon

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his heart when he played Leviticus seven
thirty two to thirty four, ten,

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fourteen and fifteen Psalm twenty five one, Hebrews thirteen fifteen. These two dishes

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were very fresh and good, and
they all ate heartily thereof. The next

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they brought up was a bottle of
wine as red as blood Deuteronomy thirty two,

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fourteen, Judges nine thirteen, John
fifteen five. So Gaeas said to

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them, drink freely. This is
the true juice of the vine that makes

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glad the heart of God and man. So they drank and were merry.

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The next was a dish of milk, well crumbed. Gayus said, let

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the boys have that that they may
grow thereby first Peter two one and two.

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Then they brought up, in course
a dish of butter and honey.

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Then said GaAs, eat freely of
this, for this is good to cheer

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up and strengthen your judgments and understandings. This was our lord's dish when he

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was a child. Butter and honey
shall he eat that he may know to

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refuse the evil and choose the good
Isaiah seven fifteen. Then they brought them

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up a dish of apples, and
they were very good tasted fruit. Then

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said Matthew, May we eat apples, since it was such by and with

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which the serpent beguild. Our first
mother then said Gaius, Apples were they

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with which we were beguiled? Yet
sin not apples? Hath our souls defiled?

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Apples? Forbid if eate corrupt the
blood to eat such when commanded,

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does us good drink of his flagons. Then thou church his dove and eat

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his apples? Who art sick of
love? Then said Matthew. I made

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the scruple because I a while since
was sick with the eating of fruit.

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Gaius, forbidden fruit will make you
sick, but not what our lord has

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tolerated. While they were thus talking, they were presented with another dish,

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and it was a dish of nuts. Song of Solomon six eleven then said

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some at the table. Nuts spoil
tender teeth, especially the teeth of children,

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which, when Gaius heard, he
said, hard techs are nuts.

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I will not call them cheaters,
whose shells to keep the kernel from the

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eaters. Open the shells, and
you shall have the meat. They here

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are brought for you to crack and
eat. Then were they very merry,

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and sat at the table a long
time, talking of many things. Then

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said the old gentleman, my good
landlord, while we are cracking your nuts,

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if you please, do you open
this riddle. A man there was,

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though some did count him mad.
The more he cast away the more

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he had. Then they all gave
good heed, wondering what good Gaius would

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say. So he sat still awhile, and then thus replied, he who

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bestows his goods upon the poor shall
have as much again, and ten times

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more. Then said Joseph, I
dare say, sir, I did not

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think you could have found it out, Oh, said Gaius. I have

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been trained up in this way a
great while. Nothing teach us like exp

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sperience. I have learned of my
lord to be kind, and have found

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by experience that I have gained thereby. There is that scattereth and yet increaseth.

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And there is that withholdeth more than
its meat, but it tendeth to

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poverty. There is that maketh himself
rich, yet hath nothing there is that

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maketh himself poor, yet hath great
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Then Samuel whispered to Christiana, his
mother, and said, mother,

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this is a very good man's house, Let us stay here a good while,

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and let my brother Matthew be married
here to Mercy before we go any

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further, the which gay Us,
the host overhearing, said, with a

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very good will, my child.
So they stayed there more than a month,

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and Mercy was given to Matthew to
wife. While they here, Mercy,

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as her custom was, would be
making coats and garments to give to

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the poor, by which she brought
a very good report upon the pilgrims.

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But to return again to our story, after supper, the lads desired a

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bed, for they were weary with
traveling. Then gay Us called to show

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them their chamber, but said,
Mercy, I will have them to bed.

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So she had them to bed,
and they slept well. But the

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rest sat up all night for gay
Us, and they were such suitable company

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that they could not tell how to
part. After much talk of their lud

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themselves and their journey, Old mister
Honest, he that put forth the riddle

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to gay Us, began to nod, then said, great Hart, what

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sir, you begin to be drowsy? Come rub up. Now here is

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a riddle for you. Then said
mister Honest, let us hear it.

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Then replied mister greatheart, he that
would kill must first be overcome. Who

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live abroad wood first must die at
home. Ha said mister honest. It

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is a hard one, hard to
expound and harder to practice. But come,

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Landlord, said he, I will
if you please leave my part to

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you. Do you expound it?
And I will hear what you say.

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No, said Gayus, It was
put to you, and it is expected

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you should answer it. Then said
the old gentleman. He first, by

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grace must conquered be that sin would
mortify who that he lives would convince me

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unto himself must die. It is
right, said Gayus. Good doctrine and

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experience teach this for first, and
still grace displays itself and overcomes the soul

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with its glory. It is altogether
without heart to oppose sin. Besides,

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if sin is Satan's chords by which
the soul lies bound, how should it

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make resistance before it is loose from
that infirmity. Secondly, nor will any

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one that knows either reason or grace
believe that such a man can be a

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living monument of grace, that is
a slave to his own corruptions. And

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now it comes into my mind,
I will tell you a story worth the

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hearing. There were two men that
went on pilgrimage. The one began when

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he was young, the other when
he was old. The young man had

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strong corruptions to grapple with, the
old man's were weak with the decays of

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nature. The young man trod his
steps as even as did the old one,

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and was every way as light as
he. Who now or which of

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them had they grace as shining clearest, since both seemed to be alike,

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mister Honest, the young man's doubtless. For that which makes head against the

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greatest opposition gives best demonstration that it
is strongest, especially when it also holdeth

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pace with that which meets not with
half, so much as to be sure

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old age does not. Besides,
I have observed that old men have blessed

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themselves with this mistake, namely taking
the decays of nature for a gracious conquest

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over corruptions, and so have been
apt to beguile themselves. Indeed, old

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men that are gracious are best able
to give advice to them that are young,

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because they have seen most of the
emptiness of things. But yet for

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an old and a young man to
set out both together, the young one

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has the advantage of the fairest discovery
of a work of grace within him,

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though the old man's corruption are naturally
the weakest. Thus they sat talking till

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break of day. Now, when
the family were up, Christiana bid her

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son James that he should read a
chapter, so he read fifty third of

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Isaiah. When he had done,
mister Honest asked why it was said that

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the Savior was to come out of
a dry ground, and also that he

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had no form nor comeliness in him. Mister Greatheart, then, said mister

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Greatheart. To the first, I
answer, because the Church of the Jews

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of which Christ came had then lost
almost all the sap and spirit of religion.

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To the second, I say,
the words are spoken in the person

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of unbelievers, who, because they
want the eye that can see into our

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Prince's heart, therefore they judge of
him by the meanness of his outside,

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just like those who, not knowing
that precious stones, are covered over with

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a homely crust when they have found
one, because they know not what they

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have found, cast it away again
as men do a common stone. Well

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said Gaius, Now you are here, and since as I know, mister

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Greatheart, is good at his weapons. If you please, After we have

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refreshed ourselves, we will walk into
the fields to see if we can do

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any good. About a mile from
hence there is one sleigh good, a

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giant that doth much annoy the King's
highway in these parts, and I know

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where about his haunts. He is
master of a number of thieves. Twould

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be well if we could clear these
parts of him. So they consented and

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went mister Greatheart with his sword,
helmet and shield, and the rest with

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spears and stars. When they came
to the place where he was, they

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found him with one feeble mind in
his hand, whom his servants had brought

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unto him, having taken him in
the way. Now the giant was rifling

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him with a purpose after that to
pick his bones, for he was of

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the nature of flesh eatas well.
So soon as he saw mister Greatheart and

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his friends at the mouth of his
cave with their weapons, he demanded what

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they wanted. Mister Greatheart, we
want thee, for we are come to

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revenge the quarrels of the many that
thou hast slain of the pilgrims, when

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thou hast dragged them out of the
King's highway, wherefore, come out of

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thy cave. So he armed himself
and came out, and to battle they

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went and fought for above an hour, and then stood still to take wind

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slay good. Then said the giant, why are you here on my ground,

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mister great Heart, to revenge the
blood of pilgrims, as I told

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thee before. So they went to
it again, and the giant made mister

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Greatheart give back. But he came
up again, and in the greatness of

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his mind he let fly with such
stoutness at the giant's head and sides that

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he made him let his weapon fall
out of his hand. So he smote

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him and slew him, and cut
off his head and brought it away to

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the inn. He also took feeble
Mind the pilgrim, and brought him with

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him to his lodgings. When they
were come home, they showed his head

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to the family and set it up
as they had done others before, for

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a terror to those that should attempt
to do as he Hereafter then they asked

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mister feeble Mind how he fell into
his hands. Mister feeble Mind then said

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the poor man, I am a
sickly man, as you see. And

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because death did usually once a day
knock at my door, I thought I

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should never be well at home.
So I betook myself to a pilgrim's life,

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and have traveled hither from the town
of Uncertain, where I and my

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father were born. I am a
man of no strength at all of body,

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nor yet of mine, but would
if I could, though I can

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but crawl, spend my life in
the pilgrim's way. When I came at

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the gate, that is at the
head of the way, the lord of

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that place did entertain me freely.
Neither objected he against my weekly looks,

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nor against my feeble mind, but
gave me such things as were necessary for

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my journey, and bid me hope
to the end. When I came to

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the house of the Interpreter, I
received much kindness there, and because the

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hill of difficulty was judged too hard
for me, I was carried up that

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by one of his servants. Indeed, I have found much relief from pilgrim's

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the none willing to go so softly
as I am forced to do. Yet

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still, as they came on,
they bid me be of good cheer,

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and said that it was the will
of their lord that comfort should be given

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to the feeble minded. First,
the Salonians five fourteen and so went on

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their own pace. When I was
come to assault lane, then this giant

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met with me and bid me prepare
for an encounter. But alas feeble one

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that I was, I had more
need of a cordial so he came up

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and took me. I conceited he
would not kill me. Also, when

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he had got me into his den, since I went not with him willingly,

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I believed I should come out alive
again. For I have heard that

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not any pilgrim that is taken captive
by violent hands, if he keeps heart

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whole towards his master, is by
the laws of providence to die by the

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hand of the enemy. Robbed,
I looked to be, and rob to

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be sure. I am. But
I have, as you see, escaped

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with life for the which I thank
my King as the author, and you

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as the means. Other brands I
also look for. But this I have

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resolved on to wit, to run
when I can, to go when I

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cannot run, and to creep when
I cannot go. As to the main,

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I thank him that loved me.
I am fixed. My way is

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before me, my mind is beyond
the river that has no bridge. Though

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I am, as you see,
but of a feeble mind. Mister Honest,

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then, said old mister Honest,
have not you, some time ago

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been acquainted with one mister Fearing a
pilgrim, Mister feeble mind, acquainted with

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him? Yes, he came from
the town of Stupidity, which lieth four

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degrees to the northward of the city
of Destruction, and as many off of

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where I was born. Yet we
were well acquainted, for indeed he was

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my uncle, my father's brother.
He and I have been much of a

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temper. He was a little shorter
than I, but yet we were much

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of a complexion. Mister Honest,
I perceive ye knew him, and I

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am apt to believe also that you
were related one to another, for you

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have his whitely, look a cast
like his with your eye, and your

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speech is much alike, mister feeble
mind. Most have said so that have

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known us both, And besides what
I have read in him, I have

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for the most part found in myself. Gaius, come, sir, said

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good Gaius, be of good cheer, for you are welcome to me and

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to my house. What thou hast
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what thou wouldst have my servants do
for thee, they will do it with

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a ready mind. Then, said
mister feeble mind. This is an unexpected

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favor. And as the sun shining
out of a very dark cloud, did

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giant slay Good intend me this favor
when he stopped me and resolved to let

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me go? No further did he
intend that, after he had rifled my

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pockets, I should go to gay
Us, mine host. Yet so it

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is now, just as mister feeble
Mind and gay Us were thus in talk,

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they came one running and called at
the door and said that about a

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mile and a half off there was
one mister Nottwright, a pilgrim, struck

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dead upon the place where he was
with a thunderbolt. Mister feeble mind,

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alas said mister feeble mind, is
he slain? He overtook me some days

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before I came so far as hither, and would be my company keeper.

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He was also with me when Slaywood
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nimble of his heels and escaped.
But it seems he escaped to die,

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and I was taken to live.
What one would think doth seek to slay

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outright oft times delivers from the saddest
plight. That very providence, whose face

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is death, doth offtimes to the
lonely life bequeath I taken was he did

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escape and flee Hans crossed, gave
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Now about this time Matthew and Mercy
were married. Also Gaius gave his daughter

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Phoebe to James, Matthew's brother to
wife. After which time they yet stayed

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about ten days at Gaius's house,
spending their time and the seasons like a

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pilgrims used to do. When they
were to depart, Gaius made them a

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feast, and they did eat and
drink and were merry. Now the hour

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was come that they must be gone. Wherefore mister Greatheart called for a reckoning.

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But Gayze told him that at his
house it was not the custom for

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pilgrims to pay for the entertainment.
He boarded them by the year, but

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looked for his pay from the good
Samaritan, who had promised him at his

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return whatsoever charge he was at with
them faithfully to repay him. Luke ten

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thirty four and thirty five, Then
said mister Greatheart, to him, mister

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Greatheart, beloved, thou doest faithfully
whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and to

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strangers who have borne witness to thy
charity before the church, whom, if

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thou yet bring forward on their journey
after a godly sort, thou shalt do

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well. Third John five and six. Then Gayze took his leave of them

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all and his children, and particularly
of mister feeble Mind. He also gave

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him something to drink. By the
way. Now, mister feeble Mind,

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when they were going out of the
door, made as if he intended to

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linger the witch. When mister great
Heart aspired, he said, come,

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mister feeble mind, pray do you
go along with us? I will be

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your conductor, and ye shall fare
as the rest. Mister feeble mind,

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alas I want a suitable companion,
You are all lusty and strong, But

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I, as you see, am
weak. I choose therefore rather to come

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behind, lest by reason of my
many infirmities, I should be both a

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burden to myself and to you.
I am, as I said, a

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man of a weak and feeble mind, and shall be offended and made weak

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at that which others can bear.
I shall like no laughing. I shall

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like no gay attire, I shall
like no omprior footable questions. Nay,

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I am so weak a man as
to be offended with that which others have

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a liberty to do. I do
not yet know all the truth. I

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am a very ignorant Christian man.
Sometimes if I hear some rejoice in the

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Lord, it troubles me because I
cannot do so. Too. It is

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with me as it is with a
weak man among the strong, or as

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with the sick man among the healthy, or as a lamp despised, so

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that I know not what to do. He that is ready to slip with

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his feet is as a lamp despised
in the thought of him that is at

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ease Joe twelve five, mister Greatheart. But brother said, mister Greatheart,

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I have it in commission to comfort
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You must needs go along with us. We will wait for you,

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We will lend you our help.
We will deny ourselves of some things,

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both opinionative and practical, for your
sake. We will not enter into doubtful

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disputations before you. We will be
made all things to you, rather than

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you shall be left behind. First
that Salonians five fourteen, Romans fourteen,

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First Corinthians eight nine to thirteen nine
twenty two. Now all this while they

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were at Gaye's door. And behold, as they were thus in the heat

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of their discourse, mister Ready to
halt came by with his crutches in his

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hand, and he also was going
on pilgrimage. Mister feeble mind, then

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said mister feeble Mind to him,
man, how camest thou hither I was

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but now complaining that I had not
a suitable companion, But thou art according

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to my wish. Welcome, Welcome, good, mister ready to halt.

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I hope thou and I may be
some help mister Reddy to halt. I

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shall be glad of thy company,
said the other, and good, mister

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feeble Mind. Rather than we will
part, since we are thus happily met,

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I will lend THEE one of my
crutches, mister feeble Mind. Nay,

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said he, though I thank THEE
for thy good will, I am

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not inclined to halt before I am
lame. Howbeit I think when occasion is

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it may help me against a dog. Mister Reddy to halt, if either

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myself or my crutches can do thee
a pleasure. We are both at thy

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command, good, mister feeble Mind. Thus therefore they went on, mister

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Greatheart, and mister Honest went before. Christiana and her children went next,

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and mister feeble Mind came behind,
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Then said mister Honest, mister Honest, pray sir, now we are

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upon the road, tell us some
profitable things of some that have gone on

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pilgrimage before us, mister Greatheart,
with a good will. I suppose you

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have heard how Christian of old did
meet with Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation,

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and also what hard work he had
to go through the valley of the

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shadow of death. Also, I
think you cannot but have heard how Faithful

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was put to it by Madame Wanton
with Adam the first, with one discontent

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and shame, for as deceitful villains
as a man can meet with upon the

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road. Mister Honest, yes,
I have heard of all this, But

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indeed good Faithful was hard as put
to it with shame. He was an

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unwearied one, mister Greatheart. Ay, for as the pilgrim well said,

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he of all men had the wrong
name, mister honest. But pray,

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where was it that Christian and Faithful
met talkative? That saying was also a

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notable one, mister Greatheart. He
was a confident fool, yet many follow

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his ways, mister Honest, he
had liked to have beguiled faithful, mister

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Greatheart, Ay, but Christian put
him into a way quickly to find him

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out. Thus they went on till
they came to the place where Evangelist met

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with Christian and Faithful and prophesied to
them what should befall them at Vanity Fair?

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Then said their guide. Hereabouts did
Christian and Faithful meet with Evangelist,

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who prophesied to them of what troubles
they should meet with at Vanity Fair?

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Mister Honest, say you, sir, I dare say it was a hard

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chapter that then he did read unto
them, mister Greatheart, it was so,

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But he gave them encouragement with all. But what do we talk of

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them? They were a couple of
lion like men. They had set their

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faces like a flint. Do not
you remember how undaunted they were when they

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stood before the judge. Mister Honest, well, faithful, bravely suffered,

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mister Greatheart, So he did,
and as brave things came on for Hopeful

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and some others, as the story
relates, were converted by his death.

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Mister Honest, well, but pray
go on, for you are well acquainted

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with things, mister Greatheart. Above
all that Christian met with after he had

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passed through Vanity fair One byens was
the arch one, mister Honest Bayerns.

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What was he, mister Greatheart?
A very arch fellow, a downright hip

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crit one that would be religious whichever
way the world went, but so cunning

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that he would be sure never to
lose or suffer for it. He had

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his mode of religion for every fresh
occasion, and his wife was as good

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at it as he. He would
turn from opinion to opinion yea, and

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plead for so doing too. But
so far as I could learn, he

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came to an ill end with his
buy ins. Nor did I ever hear

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that any of his children were ever
of any esteem with any that truly feared

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God. Now by this time they
were come within sight of the town of

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Vanity, where Vanity Fairies kept.
So when they saw that they were so

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near the town, they consulted with
one another how they should pass through the

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town, and some said one thing, and some another. At last mister

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Greatheart said, I have, as
you may understand, often been a conductor

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of pilgrims through this town. Now
I am acquainted with one mister Nason Acts

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twenty one sixteen, a Cyprusian by
nation, an old disciple, at whose

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house we may lodge. If you
think good, we will turn in there.

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Content said old honest, Content said
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So they said all now you must
think it was even tied by that

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They got to the outside of the
town. But mister Greatheart knew the way

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to the old man's house. So
thither they came, and he called at

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the door, and the old man
within knew his tongue as soon as ever

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he heard it, So he opened
the door and they all came in.

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Then said Nason, their host,
how far have ye come to day?

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So they said, from the house
of Gaius, our friend. I promise

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you, said he you have gone
a good stitch. Ye may well be

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weary. Sit down, So they
sat down. Mister Greatheart then said they

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guide, come, what ch here? Good sirs? I dare say you

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are welcome to my friend, mister
Nason. I also said, mister Nason,

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do bid you welcome, and whatever
you want, do but say and

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we will do what we can to
get it for you. Mister Honest.

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Our great want a while since was
harbor and good company, And now I

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hope we have both, mister Nason. For harbor, you see what it

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is. But for good company that
will appear in the trial, mister Greatheart,

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well said mister Greatheart. Will you
have the pilgrims up until their lodging,

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mister Nason, I will, said
mister Nason. So he had them

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to their respective places, and also
showed them a very fair dining room where

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they might be and sup together until
the time should come to go to rest.

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Now, when they were seated in
their places and were a little cheery

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after their journey, mister Honest asked
his landlord if there was any store of

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good people in the town. Mister
Nason, we have a few, For

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indeed they are but a few,
and compared with them on the other side,

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mister Honest, but how shall we
do to see some of them?

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For the sight of good men to
them that are going on pilgrimage is like

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the appearing of the moon and stars
to them that are sailing upon the seas,

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mister Nason. Then mister Nason stamped
with his foot, and his daughter

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Grace came up. So he said, unto her, Grace, go you

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tell my friends, mister Contrite,
mister holy Man, mister Saints, mister

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dare not lie, and mister Penitent, that I have a friend or two

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at my house who have a mind
this evening to see them. So Grace

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went to call them, and they
came, and after salutation made, they

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sat down together at the table.
Then said mister Nason, the landlord my

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neighbors, I have, as you
see, a company of strangers come to

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my house. They are pilgrims.
They come from Afar and are going to

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Mount Zion. But who quoth he? Do you think? This is pointing

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his finger to Christiana. It is
Christiana, the wife of Christian, the

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famous pilgrim, who, with faithful
his brother, was so shamefully handled in

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our town. At that they stood
a maid, saying, we little thought

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to see Christiana when Grace came to
call us. Wherefore this is a very

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comfortable surprise. They then asked her
of her welfare, and if these young

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men were her husbands sons. And
when she had told them they were they

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said, the King whom you love
and serve, make you as your father,

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and bring you where he is in
peace. Mister Honest. Then,

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mister Honest, when they were all
sat down, asked mister Contrite and the

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rest in what posture their town was
at present? Mister Contrite, you may

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be sure we are full of hurry
and fair. Time tis hard keeping our

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hearts and spirits in good order when
we are in a cumbered condition. He

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that lives in such a place as
this is, and has to do with

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such as we have, has need
of an item to caution him to take

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heed every moment of the day,
mister honest. But how are your neighbors

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now? For quietness, mister Contrite, They are much more moderate now than

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formerly. You know how Christian and
faithful were used at our town. But

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of late I say they have been
far more moderate. I think the blood

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of faithful Liethe as a load upon
them till now, for since they burned

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him, they have been ashamed to
burn any more. In those days we

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were afraid to walk the street,
but now we can show our heads.

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Then, the name of a professor
was odious now, especially in some parts

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of our town. For you,
now our town is large. Religion is

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counted honorable, then, said mister
Contrite, to them, pray. How

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fareth it with you and your pilgrimage? How stands the country affected towards you,

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mister Honest? It happens to us
as it happeneth to wayfaring men.

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Sometimes our way is clean, sometimes
foul, sometimes uphill, sometimes downhill.

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We are seldom at a certainty.
The wind is not always on our backs,

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nor is every one a friend that
we meet within the way. We

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have met with some notable rubs already, and what are yet behind we know

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not, But for the most part
we find it true that has been talked

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of old a good man must suffer
trouble. Mister Contrite, you talk of

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rubs. What rubs have you met
with all, mister Honest? Nay,

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ask mister Greatheart our guide, for
he can give the best account of that.

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Mister Greatheart, We have been beset
three or four times already. First

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Christiana and her children were beset by
two ruffians, who they feared would take

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away their lives. We were beset
by giant, bloody man, giant mole

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and giant slay Good indeed read it
rather beset the last, and were beset

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by him. And thus it was. After we had been some time at

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the house of Gaius, mine host, and of the whole church, we

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were minded upon a time to take
our weapons with us and go see if

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we could light upon any of those
that are enemies to pilgrims, for we

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heard that there was a notable one
thereabouts. Now Gaius knew his haunt better

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than I, because he dwelt thereabout. So we looked and looked till at

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last we discerned the mouth of his
cave. Then we were glad and plucked

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up our spirits. So we approached
up to his den, and lo,

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when we came there, he had
dragged by mere force into his net this

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poor man, mister feeble Mind,
and was about to bring him to his

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end. But when he saw us, supposing as we thought, he had

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another prey, he left the poor
man in his hole and came out.

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So we fell to it full sore, and he lustily laid about him button

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co usion. He was brought down
to the ground and his head cut off,

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and set up by the wayside for
a terror to such as should after

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practice such ungodliness that I tell you
the truth, here is the man himself

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to affirm it, who was as
a lamb taken out of the mouth of

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the lion. Mister feeble Mind then, said mister feeble Mind. I found

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this true to my cost and comfort
to my cost when he threatened to pick

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my bones every moment, and to
my comfort when I saw mister Greatheart and

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his friends with their weapons approach so
near for my deliverance. Mister holy Man

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then said mister holy Man. There
are two things that they have need to

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possess who go on pilgrimage, courage
and an unspotted life. If they have

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not courage, they can never hold
on their way, and if their lives

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be loose, they will make the
very name of a pilgrim stink. Mister

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Love Saints then, said mister Love
Saints. I hope this caution is not

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needful among you. But truly there
are many that go upon the road who

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rather declare themselves strangers to pilgrimage than
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Mister

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dare not lie, then, said
mister dare not lie. Tis true they

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have neither the pilgrims read, nor
the pilgrim's courage. They go not uprightly,

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but all arrive with their feet.
One shoe goeth inward, another outward,

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and their hosen are out behind.
Here a rag and there a rent

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to the disparagement of their lord,
mister Penitent. These things, said,

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mister Penitent, they ought to be
troubled, for nor are the pilgrims like

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to have that grace put upon them
and their pilgrim's progress as they desire,

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until the way is cleared of such
spots and blemish. Thus they sat talking

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and spending the time until supper was
set upon the table, unto which they

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went and refreshed their weary bodies.
So they went to rest. Now they

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stayed in the fair a great while
at the house of mister Nason, who,

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in process of time gave his daughter
Grace unto Samuel, Christian's son to

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wife, and his daughter Martha to
Joseph. This time, as I said,

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that they stayed here, was long, for it was not now as

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in former times. Wherefore the pilgrims
grew acquainted with many of the good people

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of the town and did them what
service they could. Mercy, as she

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was wont labored much for the poor. Wherefore their bellies and backs blessed her,

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and she was there an ornament to
her profession, and to say the

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truth. For Grace, Phoebe,
and Martha, they were all of a

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very good nature and did much good
in their pla. They were also,

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all of them very fruitful, so
that Christian's name, as was said before,

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was like to live in the world. While they lay here, they

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came a monster out of the woods
and slew many of the people of the

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town. It would also carry away
their children and teach them to suck its

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whelps. Now no man in the
town durst so much as face this monster,

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but all fled when they heard the
noise of his coming. The monster

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was like unto no one beast on
the earth. Its body was like a

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dragon, and it had seven heads
and ten horns. It made great havoc

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of children, and yet it was
governed by a woman Revelations seventeen three.

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So this monster propounded conditions to men, and such men as loved their lives

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more than their souls, accepted of
those conditions. So they came under Now

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mister Greatheart, together with those he
came to visit the pilgrims at mister Nason's

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house entered into a covenant to go
and engage this beast, if perhaps they

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might deliver the people of this town
from the pause and mouth of this so

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devouring a servant. Then did mister
Greatheart, mister Contrite, mister holy Man,

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mister darrenot Lie, and mister Penitent, with their weapons go forth to

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meet him. Now, the monster
at first was very rampant and looked upon

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these enemies with great disdain. But
they so belabored him, being sturdy men

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at arms, that they made him
make a retreat. So they came home

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to mister Nason's house again. The
monster, you must know, had his

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certain seasons to come out in and
to make his attempts upon the children of

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the people of the town. At
these seasons did these valiant worthies watch him,

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and did still continually assault him,
insomuch that in process of time he

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became not only wounded, but laying
also. He has not made that havoc

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of the townsmen's children as formerly he
had done, And it is verily believed

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by some that this beast will die
of his wounds. This therefore made mister

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Greatheart and his fellows of great fame
in this town, so that many of

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the people that wanted their taste of
things yet had a reverent esteem and respect

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for them. Upon this account,
therefore it was that these pilgrims got not

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much hurt here. True, there
were some of the baser sort that could

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see no more than a mole,
nor understand any more than a beast.

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These had no reverence for these men, and took no notice of their valor

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and adventures. And second half of
Part two, the sixth stage,