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10 - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Part two, the fifth stage. Now I saw in my
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Speaker 1: dream that they went forward until they were come to
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Speaker 1: the brow of the hill, where Piety, bethinking herself, cried out,
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Speaker 1: alas I have forgot what I intended to bestow upon
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Speaker 1: Christiana and her companions. I will go back and fetch it.
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Speaker 1: So she ran and fetched it. While she was gone,
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Speaker 1: Christiana thought she heard in a grove a little way
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Speaker 1: off on the right hand, a most curious, melodious note,
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Speaker 1: with words much like these. Through all my life, thy
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Speaker 1: favor is so frankly showed to me that in Thy
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Speaker 1: house for evermore my dwelling place shall be. And listening still,
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Speaker 1: she thought she heard another answering, saying, for why the Lord,
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Speaker 1: our God is good. His mercy is for ever sure,
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Speaker 1: his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from
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Speaker 1: age to age endure. So Christiana asked prudent who it
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Speaker 1: was that made these curious notes Song of Solomon two
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Speaker 1: eleven and twelve. They are, answered, she, our country birds
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Speaker 1: they sing these notes, but seldom except it be at
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Speaker 1: the spring, when the flowers appear and the sun shines warm.
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Speaker 1: And then you may hear them all day long, I
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Speaker 1: often said, she go out to hear them. We also,
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Speaker 1: ofttimes keep them tame in our house. They are very
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Speaker 1: fine company for us when we are melancholy. Also they
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Speaker 1: make the woods and groves and solitary places places desirable
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Speaker 1: to be in. By this time Piety was come again,
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Speaker 1: so she said to Christiana, Look here I have brought
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Speaker 1: thee a scheme of all those things that thou hast
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Speaker 1: seen at our house, upon which thou mayest look when
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Speaker 1: thou findest thyself forgetful, and call those things again to
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Speaker 1: remembrance for the edification and comfort. Now they began to
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Speaker 1: go down the hill into the Valley of Humiliation. It
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Speaker 1: was a steep hill, and the way was slippery, but
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Speaker 1: they were very careful, so they got down pretty well.
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Speaker 1: When they were down in the valley, Piety said to Christiana,
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Speaker 1: this is the place where Christian, your husband met with
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Speaker 1: the foul fiend Apollyon, and where they had that dreadful
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Speaker 1: fight that they had. I know you cannot but have
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Speaker 1: heard thereof, But be of good courage. As long as
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Speaker 1: you have here, mister Greatheart, to be your guide and conductor,
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Speaker 1: we hope you will fare the better. So, when these
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Speaker 1: two had committed the pilgrims unto the conduct of their guide.
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Speaker 1: He went forward, and they went after. Mister Greatheart. Then
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Speaker 1: said mister Greatheart, we need not be so afraid of
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Speaker 1: this valley, for here is nothing to hurt us unless
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Speaker 1: we procure it to ourselves. It is true Christian did
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Speaker 1: here meet with Napoleon, with whom he had also a
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Speaker 1: sore combat, But that fray was the fruit of those
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Speaker 1: slips that he got in his going down the hill.
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Speaker 1: For they that get slips there must look for combats here.
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Speaker 1: And hence it is that this valley has got so
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Speaker 1: hard a name for the common people. When they hear
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Speaker 1: that some frightful thing has befallen such an one in
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Speaker 1: such a place, are of opinion that that place is
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Speaker 1: haunted with some foul fiend or evil spirit, when alas
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Speaker 1: it is for the fruit of their doing, that such
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Speaker 1: things do before them there, this valley of Humiliation is
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Speaker 1: of itself as fruitful a place as any. The crow
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Speaker 1: flies over, and I am persuaded if we could hit
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Speaker 1: upon it, we might find somewhere hereabouts something that might
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Speaker 1: give us an account why Christian was so hardly beset
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Speaker 1: in this place. Then, said James to his mother. Lo
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Speaker 1: y understands a pillar, and it looks as if something
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Speaker 1: was written thereon. Let us go and see what it is.
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Speaker 1: So they went and found there written Let Christians slips
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Speaker 1: before he came hither, and the battles that he met
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Speaker 1: with in this place be a warning to those that
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Speaker 1: come after. Lo said their guide, did not I tell
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Speaker 1: you that there was something hereabouts that would give intimation
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Speaker 1: of the reason why Christian was so hard beset in
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Speaker 1: this place. Then, turning to Christiana, he said, no disparagement
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Speaker 1: to Christian more than to any others whose hap and
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Speaker 1: lot it was. For it is easier going up than
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Speaker 1: down this hill. And that can be said but of
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Speaker 1: few hills in all these parts of the world. But
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Speaker 1: we will leave the good man. He is at rest.
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Speaker 1: He also had a brave victory over his enemy. Let
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Speaker 1: him grant that dwelleth above that we fare no worse
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Speaker 1: when we come be tried than he. But we will
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Speaker 1: come again. This valley of humiliation. It is the best
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Speaker 1: and most fruitful piece of ground in all those parts.
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Speaker 1: It is fat ground, and as you see, consisteth much
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Speaker 1: in meadows. And if a man was to come here
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Speaker 1: in the summer time, as we do now. If he
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Speaker 1: knew not anything before thereof, and if he also delighted
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Speaker 1: himself in the sight of his eyes, he might see
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Speaker 1: that which would be delightful to him. Behold, how green
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Speaker 1: this valley is, also how beautified with lilies. Song of
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Speaker 1: Solomon to one. I have known many laboring men that
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Speaker 1: have got good estates in this valley of humiliation. For
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Speaker 1: God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble
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Speaker 1: James four six, First Peter five five. Indeed, it is
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Speaker 1: a very fruitful soil, and doth bring forth by handfuls.
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Speaker 1: Some also have wished that the next way to their
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Speaker 1: father's house were here, that they might be troubled no
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Speaker 1: more with either hills or mountains to go over. But
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Speaker 1: the way is the way, and there is an end. Now.
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Speaker 1: As they were going along and talking, they espied a
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Speaker 1: boy feeding his father's sheep. The boy was in very
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Speaker 1: mean clothes, but of a very fresh and well favored countenance.
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Speaker 1: And as he sat by himself, he sung, hark said,
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Speaker 1: mister greatheart, to what the shepherd's boy saith? So they hearkened,
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Speaker 1: and he said, he that is thoun needs fear no foe.
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Speaker 1: He that is low no pride. He that is humble, ever,
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Speaker 1: shall have God to be his guide. I am content
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Speaker 1: with what I have, little be it or much, And
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Speaker 1: Lord contentment still I crave, because thou savest such fullness
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Speaker 1: to such a burden, is that go on pilgrimage? Here
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Speaker 1: little and hereafter bliss is best from age to age,
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Speaker 1: Then said the guide. Do you hear him? I will
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Speaker 1: dare to say that this boy lives a merrier life,
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Speaker 1: and wears more of that herb called heart's ease in
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Speaker 1: his bosom than he that is clad in silk and velvet.
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Speaker 1: But we will proceed in our discourse in this valley.
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Speaker 1: Our lord formerly had his country house. He loved much
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Speaker 1: to be here. He loved also to walk these meadows,
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Speaker 1: for he found the air was pleasant. Besides, here a
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Speaker 1: man shall be free from the noise and from the
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Speaker 1: hurryings of this life. All states are full of noise
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Speaker 1: and confusion. Only the value of humiliation is that empty
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Speaker 1: and solitary place. Here a man shall not be so
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Speaker 1: let and hindered in his contemplation as in other places
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Speaker 1: he is apt to be. This is a valley that
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Speaker 1: nobody walks in, but those that love a pilgrim's life.
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Speaker 1: And though Christian had the hard hap to meet here
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Speaker 1: with Apollion and to enter with him in a brisk encounter,
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Speaker 1: yet I must tell you that in former times men
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Speaker 1: have met with angels here Josea twelve four and five,
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Speaker 1: have found pearls here Matthew thirteen forty six, and have
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Speaker 1: in this place found the words of life Proverbs eight
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Speaker 1: thirty six. Did I say our Lord had here in
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Speaker 1: former days his country house, and that he loved here
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Speaker 1: to walk, I will add in this place and to
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Speaker 1: the people that love and trace these grounds, he has
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Speaker 1: left a yearly revenue to be faithfully paid them at
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Speaker 1: certain seasons, for their maintenance by their way, and for
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Speaker 1: their further encouragement to go on in their pilgrimage. Samuel. Now,
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Speaker 1: as they went on, Samuel said to mister Greatheart, Sir,
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Speaker 1: I perceived that in this valley my father and Napoleon
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Speaker 1: had their battle. But whereabout was the fight? For I
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Speaker 1: perceive this valley is large, mister Greatheart, your father had
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Speaker 1: the battle with Apollion at a place yonder before us,
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Speaker 1: in a narrow passage just beyond Forgetful Green. And indeed
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Speaker 1: that place is the most dangerous in all these parts.
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Speaker 1: For if at any time pilgrims meet with any brunt,
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Speaker 1: it is when they forget what favors they have received,
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Speaker 1: and how unworthy they are of them. This is the
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Speaker 1: place also where others have been hard put to it.
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Speaker 1: But more of the place when we are come to it.
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Speaker 1: For I persuade myself that to this day there remains
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Speaker 1: either some sign of the battle or some monument to
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Speaker 1: testify that such a battle there was fought. Mercy then
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Speaker 1: said Mercy, I think I am as well in this
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Speaker 1: valley as I have been anywhere else in all our journey.
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Speaker 1: This place, methink, suits with my spirit. I love to
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Speaker 1: be in such places where there is no rattling with coaches,
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Speaker 1: nor rumbling with wheels. Methinks, he one may, without much molestation,
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Speaker 1: be thinking what he is, whence he came, what he
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Speaker 1: has done, and to what the King has called him.
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Speaker 1: Here one may think and break at heart, and melt
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Speaker 1: in one's spirit, until one's eyes become as the fish
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Speaker 1: bulls in Heshpan song of Solomon seven. Four. They that
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Speaker 1: go rightly through this valley of Bacca make it a well.
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Speaker 1: The rain that God sends down from heaven upon them
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Speaker 1: that are here, also fileth the pools this valley is
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Speaker 1: that from whence also the King will give to his
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Speaker 1: their vineyards, and they that go through it shall sing,
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Speaker 1: as Christian did for all he met with Apollion Psalm
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Speaker 1: eighty four five to seven Joseiah two fifteen. Mister greatheart,
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Speaker 1: tis true, said their guide. I have gone through this
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Speaker 1: valley many a time, and never was better than when
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Speaker 1: here I have been a conduct to several pilgrims, and
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Speaker 1: they have confessed the same to this man. Will I
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Speaker 1: look saith the king, even to him that is poor
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Speaker 1: and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word
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Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty six two. Now they were come to the
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Speaker 1: place where the aforementioned battle was fought. Then said the
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Speaker 1: guide to Christiana, her children and mercy, this is the
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Speaker 1: place on this ground Christians stood, and up there came
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Speaker 1: Apollyon against him. And look, and look, did I not
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Speaker 1: tell you? Here is some of your husband's blood upon
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Speaker 1: these stones. To this day? Behold also how here and
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Speaker 1: there are yet to be seen upon the place some
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Speaker 1: of the shivers of Napoleon's broken darts. See also, had
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Speaker 1: they did beat the ground with their feet as they
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Speaker 1: fought to make good their places against each other. How
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Speaker 1: also with their biblows they did split the very stones
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Speaker 1: and pieces. Verily, Christian did here play the man, and
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Speaker 1: showed himself as stout as Hercules could had he been there,
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Speaker 1: even he himself. When Napoleon was beat, he made his
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Speaker 1: retreat to the next valley, that is called the valley
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Speaker 1: of the Shadow of Death, unto which we shall come.
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Speaker 1: Anon lo Yonder also stands a monument on which is
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Speaker 1: engraven this battle and Christian's victory to his fame throughout
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Speaker 1: all ages. So because it stood just on the wayside
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Speaker 1: before them, they stepped to it and read the writing,
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Speaker 1: which word for word was this hard by. Here was
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Speaker 1: a battle fought most strange and yet most true. Christian
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Speaker 1: and Napoleon fought each other to subdue the man, so
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Speaker 1: bravely played the man he made the fiend to fly,
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Speaker 1: of which a monument I stand the same to testify.
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Speaker 1: When they had passed by this place, they upon the
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Speaker 1: borders of the Shadow of Death. This valley was longer
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Speaker 1: than the other, a place also most strangely haunted with
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Speaker 1: evil things, as many are able to testify. But these
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Speaker 1: women and children went the better through it, because they
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Speaker 1: had daylight, and because mister Greatheart was their conductor. When
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Speaker 1: they were entering upon this valley, they thought they heard
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Speaker 1: a groaning as of dying men, a very great groaning.
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Speaker 1: They thought also that they did hear words of lamentation spoken,
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Speaker 1: as of some in extreme torment. These things made the
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Speaker 1: boys to quake. The women also looked pale and ran,
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Speaker 1: But their guide bid them be of good comfort. So
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Speaker 1: they went on a little further, and they thought that
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Speaker 1: they felt the ground begin to shake under them, as
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Speaker 1: if some hollow place was there. They heard also a
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Speaker 1: kind of hissing, as of serpents, but nothing as yet appeared.
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Speaker 1: Then the boys are we not yet at the end
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Speaker 1: of this doleful place. But the guide also bid them
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Speaker 1: be of good courage, and look well to their feet
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Speaker 1: less happily said he ye be taken in some snare.
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Speaker 1: Now James began to be sick, but I think the
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Speaker 1: cause thereof was fear. So his mother gave him some
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Speaker 1: of that glass of spirits that had been given her
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Speaker 1: at the interpreter's house, and three of the pills that
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Speaker 1: mister Skill had prepared, and the boy began to revive.
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Speaker 1: Thus they went on till they came to about the
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Speaker 1: middle of the valley. And then Christiana said, methinks, I
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Speaker 1: see something yonder upon the road before us, a thing
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Speaker 1: of a shape such as I have not seen. But
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Speaker 1: then said Joseph, mother, what is it? An ugly thing? Child,
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Speaker 1: an ugly thing, said she. But mother, what is it like?
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Speaker 1: Said he? Tis like? I cannot tell, what said she.
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Speaker 1: And now it is but a little way off, then
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Speaker 1: said she. It is nigh. Well, said mister greatheart. Let
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Speaker 1: them that are most afraid keep close to me. So
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Speaker 1: the fiend came on, and the conductor met it, But
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Speaker 1: when it was come to him, it vanished. To all
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Speaker 1: their sights. Then remembered they what had been said some
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Speaker 1: time ago, Resist the devil, and he will flee from
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Speaker 1: you James four seven. They went therefore on as being
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Speaker 1: a little refreshed. But they had not gone far before Mercy,
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Speaker 1: looking behind her sore as she thought something most like
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Speaker 1: a lion. And it came at a great padding pace after,
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Speaker 1: and it had a hollow voice of roaring, and at
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Speaker 1: every roar it gave it made the valley echo, and
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Speaker 1: all their hearts to ache, save the heart of him
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Speaker 1: that was their guide. So it came up, and mister
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Speaker 1: Greatheart went behind and put the pilgrims all before him.
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Speaker 1: The lion also came on apace, and mister Greatheart addressed
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Speaker 1: himself to give him battle first Peter five, eight and nine.
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Speaker 1: But when he saw that it was determined that the
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Speaker 1: resistance should be made, he also drew back and came
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Speaker 1: no further. Then they went on again, and their conductor
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Speaker 1: went before them, till they came to a place where
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Speaker 1: it was cast up a pit the whole breadth of
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Speaker 1: the way. And before they could be prepared to go
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Speaker 1: over that, a great mist and a darkness fell upon them,
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Speaker 1: so that they could not see. Then said the pilgrims, alas,
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Speaker 1: what now shall we do? But their guide made answer,
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Speaker 1: fear not stand still and see what an end will
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Speaker 1: be put to this. Also, so they stayed there because
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Speaker 1: their path was marred. They then also thought that they
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Speaker 1: did hear more. Apparently the noise and rushing of the enemies.
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Speaker 1: The fire also and the smoke of the pit were
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Speaker 1: much easier to be discerned. Then, said Christiana to Mercy.
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Speaker 1: Now I see what my poor husband went through. I
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Speaker 1: have heard much of this place, But I never was
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Speaker 1: here before. Now, poor man, he went here all alone
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Speaker 1: in the night. He had night almost quite through the way. Also,
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Speaker 1: these fiends were busy about him, as if they would
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Speaker 1: have torn him in pieces. Many have spoken of it,
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Speaker 1: but none can tell what the valley of the Shadow
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Speaker 1: of Death should mean until they come in themselves. The
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Speaker 1: heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger inter medleth
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Speaker 1: not with its joy Proverbs fourteen ten. To be here
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Speaker 1: is a fearful thing, mister greatheart. This like doing business
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Speaker 1: in great waters, or like going down into the deep.
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Speaker 1: This is like being in the heart of the sea,
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Speaker 1: and like going down to the bottoms of the mountains.
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Speaker 1: Now it seems as if the earth with its bars,
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Speaker 1: were about us forever. But let them that walk in
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Speaker 1: darkness and have no light trust in the name of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and stay upon their God Isaiah fifty ten.
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Speaker 1: For my part, as I have told you already, I
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Speaker 1: have gone often through this valley, and have been much
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Speaker 1: harder put to it than now I am. And yet
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Speaker 1: you see I am alive. I would not boast for that.
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Speaker 1: I am not mine own savior. But I trust we
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Speaker 1: shall have a good deliverance come let us pray for
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Speaker 1: light to him that can light in our darkness, and
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Speaker 1: that can rebuke not only these but all the satans
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Speaker 1: in hell. So they cried and prayed, and God sent
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Speaker 1: light and deliverance. For there was now no let in
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Speaker 1: their way, no not there where. But now they were
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Speaker 1: stopped with a pit. Yet they were not got through
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Speaker 1: the valley. So they went on still, and met with
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Speaker 1: great stinks and loathsome smells. To the great annoyance of them.
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Speaker 1: Then said Mercy to Christiana. It is not so pleasant
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Speaker 1: being here as at the gate, or at the interpreter's,
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Speaker 1: or at the house where we lay last. Oh, but
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Speaker 1: said one of the boys, it is not so bad
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Speaker 1: to go through here as it is to abide here
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Speaker 1: always and for aught. I know one reason why we
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Speaker 1: must go this way to the house prepared for us,
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Speaker 1: is that our home might be the sweeter to us. Well,
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Speaker 1: said Samuel, quoth the guide, thou hast now spoke like
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Speaker 1: a man. Why if ever I get out here again,
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Speaker 1: said the boy, I think I shall prize light and
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Speaker 1: good way better than I ever did in all my life.
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Speaker 1: Then said the guide, we shall be out by and
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Speaker 1: by so on they went and Joseph said, cannot we
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Speaker 1: see to the end of this valley as yet? Then
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Speaker 1: said the guide, look to your feet, for we shall
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Speaker 1: presently be among the snares. So they looked to their
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Speaker 1: feet and went on. But they were troubled much with
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Speaker 1: the snares. Now, when they were come among the snares,
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Speaker 1: they espied a man cast into the ditch on the
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Speaker 1: left hand, with his flesh all rent and torn. Then
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Speaker 1: said the guide, that is one heedless that was going
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Speaker 1: this way. He has lain there a great while. There
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Speaker 1: was one take heed with him when he was taken
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Speaker 1: and slain, but he escaped their hands. You cannot imagine
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Speaker 1: how many are killed hereabouts. And yet men are so
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Speaker 1: foolishly venturous as to set out lightly on pilgrimage and
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Speaker 1: to come without a guide. Poor Christian, it was a
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Speaker 1: wonder that he here escaped. But he was beloved of
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Speaker 1: his God. Also he had a good heart of his own,
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Speaker 1: or else he could never have done it. Now they
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Speaker 1: drew towards the end of this way, and just there
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Speaker 1: where Christian had seen the cave when he went by out,
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Speaker 1: thence came forth more a giant. This male did us
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Speaker 1: to spoil young pilgrims with sophistry. And he called great
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Speaker 1: Heart by his name, and said unto him, how many
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Speaker 1: times have you been forbidden to do these things? Then
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Speaker 1: said mister Greatheart, what things? What things? Quoth the Giant?
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Speaker 1: You know what things. But I will put an end
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Speaker 1: to your trade. But pray, said mister Greatheart, before we
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Speaker 1: fall to it. Let us understand, wherefore we must fight.
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Speaker 1: Now The women and children stood trembling and knew not
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Speaker 1: what to do. Quoth the Giant, you rob the country,
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Speaker 1: and rob it with the worst of thefts. These are
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Speaker 1: but generals, said mister Greatheart. Come to particulars. Man, then
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Speaker 1: said the Giant, Thou practicest the craft of a kidnapper.
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Speaker 1: Thou gatherest up women and children and carriest them into
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Speaker 1: a strange country, to the weakening of my master's kingdom.
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Speaker 1: But now, great Heart replied, I am a servant of
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Speaker 1: the God of Heaven. My business is to persuade sinners
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Speaker 1: to repentance. I am commanded to do my endeavors to
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Speaker 1: turn men, women and children from darkness to light, and
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Speaker 1: from the power of Satan unto God. And if this
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Speaker 1: be indeed the ground of thy quarrel, let us fall
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Speaker 1: to it as soon as thou wilt. Then the giant
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Speaker 1: came up, and mister Greatheart went to meet him, And
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Speaker 1: as he went he drew his sword, but the had
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Speaker 1: a club, so without more ado, they fell to it.
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Speaker 1: And at the first blow the giant struck mister Greathart
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Speaker 1: down upon one of his knees. With that the women
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Speaker 1: and children cried out. So mister Greathart, recovering himself, laid
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Speaker 1: about him in full lusty manner, and gave the giant
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Speaker 1: a wound in his arm. Thus he fought for the
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Speaker 1: space of an hour to that height of heat that
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Speaker 1: the breath came out of the giant's nostrils as the
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Speaker 1: heat doth out of a boiling caldron. Then they sat
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Speaker 1: down to rest them, but mister Greatheart betook himself to prayer.
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Speaker 1: Also the women and children did nothing but sigh and
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Speaker 1: cry all the time that the battle did last. When
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Speaker 1: they had rested them and taken breath, they both fell
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Speaker 1: to it again, and mister Greatheart, with a blow, fetched
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Speaker 1: the giant down to the ground. Nay, hold, let me recover,
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Speaker 1: quoth he So mister great Heart fairly let him get up.
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Speaker 1: So to it they went again and the giant missed
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Speaker 1: but little of all to breaking mister Greatheart's skull with
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Speaker 1: his club. Mister Greatheart, seeing that, runs to him in
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Speaker 1: the full heat of his spirit, and pierceth him under
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Speaker 1: the fifth rib. With that the giant began to faint
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Speaker 1: and could hold up his club no longer. Then mister
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Speaker 1: Greatheart seconded his blow and smit the head of the
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Speaker 1: giant from his shoulders. Then the women and children rejoiced,
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Speaker 1: and mister Greatheart also praised God for the deliverance he
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Speaker 1: had wrought. When this was done, they amongst them erected
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Speaker 1: a pillar and fastened the giant's head thereon, and wrote
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Speaker 1: under in letters that passengers might read. He that did
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Speaker 1: wear this head was one that pilgrims did misuse. He
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Speaker 1: stopped their way. He spareed none, but did them all
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Speaker 1: abuse until that eye great Heart arose the pilgrim's guide
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Speaker 1: to be. Until that I did him oppose, that was
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Speaker 1: their enemy. End Part two, The fifth Stage