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

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  Speaker 1: Second half of Part two, the sixth stage. Now the
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  Speaker 1: cook sent up to signify that supper was almost ready,
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  Speaker 1: and sent one to lay the cloth and the trenches,
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  Speaker 1: and to set the salt and bread in order. Then
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  Speaker 1: said Matthew, the sight of this cloth and of this
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  Speaker 1: forerunner of the supper begetteth in me a greater appetite
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  Speaker 1: for my food than I had before Gaeus. So let
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  Speaker 1: all ministering doctrines to thee in this life beget in
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  Speaker 1: thee a greater desire to sit at the supper of
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  Speaker 1: the Great King in his kingdom. For all preaching books
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  Speaker 1: and ordinances. Here a butt as the laying of the
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  Speaker 1: trenches and the setting of salt upon the board, when
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  Speaker 1: compared with the feast which our Lord will make for
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  Speaker 1: us when we come to his house. So supper came up,
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  Speaker 1: and first a heaved shoulder and a wave breast were
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  Speaker 1: set on the table before them, to show that they
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  Speaker 1: must begin their meal with prayer and prays to God.
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  Speaker 1: The heath shoulder David lifted up his heart to God
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  Speaker 1: with and with the rave breast where his heart lay.
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  Speaker 1: He used to lean upon his harp when he played
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  Speaker 1: Leviticus seven thirty two to thirty four, ten, fourteen and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen Psalm twenty five one, Hebrews thirteen fifteen. These two
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  Speaker 1: dishes were very fresh and good, and they all ate
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  Speaker 1: heartily thereof. The next they brought up was a bottle
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  Speaker 1: of wine as red as blood Deuteronomy thirty two, fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Judges nine thirteen, John fifteen five. So Gayas said to them,
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  Speaker 1: drink freely. This is the true juice of the vine
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  Speaker 1: that makes glad the heart of God and man. So
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  Speaker 1: they drank and were merry. The next was a dish
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  Speaker 1: of milk, well crumbed. Gaeus said, let the boys have
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  Speaker 1: that that they may grow thereby first Peter two one
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  Speaker 1: and two. Then they brought up, in course a dish
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  Speaker 1: of butter and honey. Then said Gaeus, eat freely of this,
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  Speaker 1: for this is good to cheer up and strengthen your
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  Speaker 1: judgments and understandings. This was our lord's dish when he
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  Speaker 1: was a child. Butter and honey shall he eat that
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  Speaker 1: he may know to refuse the evil and choose the
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  Speaker 1: good Isaiah seven fifteen. Then they brought them up a
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  Speaker 1: dish of apples, and they were very good tasted fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Matthew, May we eat apples, since it was
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  Speaker 1: such by and with which the serpent beguiled. Our first
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  Speaker 1: mother then said, Gaeus, apples were they with which we
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  Speaker 1: were beguiled? Yet sin not apples. Hath our souls defiled?
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  Speaker 1: Forbid if ate corrupt the blood to eat such? When commanded,
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  Speaker 1: does us good drink of his flagons. Then thou church
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  Speaker 1: his dove and eat his apples. Who art sick of love?
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  Speaker 1: Then said Matthew, I made the scruple because I, while
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  Speaker 1: since was sick with the eating of fruit. Gaeus, forbidden
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  Speaker 1: fruit will make you sick, but not what our lord
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  Speaker 1: has tolerated. While they were thus talking, they were presented
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  Speaker 1: with another dish, and it was a dish of nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Song of Solomon six eleven. Then said some at the table.
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  Speaker 1: Nuts spoil tender teeth, especially the teeth of children, which,
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  Speaker 1: when Gayus heard, he said, hard texts are nuts. I
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  Speaker 1: will not call them cheetahs, whose shells to keep the
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  Speaker 1: kernel from the eaters. Open the shells, and you shall
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  Speaker 1: have the meat. They here are brought for you to
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  Speaker 1: crack and eat. Then were they very merry, and sat
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  Speaker 1: at the table a long time talking of many things.
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  Speaker 1: Then said the old gentleman, my good landlord, while we
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  Speaker 1: are cracking your nuts, if you please, do you open
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  Speaker 1: this riddle. A man there was, though some did count
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  Speaker 1: him mad. The more he cast away the more he had.
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  Speaker 1: Then they all gave good heed. Wondering what good Gaius
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  Speaker 1: would say, so he sat still a while, and then
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  Speaker 1: thus replied, he who bestows his goods upon the poor
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  Speaker 1: shall have as much again, and ten times more. Then
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  Speaker 1: said Joseph, I dare say, sir, I did not think
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  Speaker 1: you could have found it out, Oh, said Gaeus, I
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  Speaker 1: have been trained up in this way a great while.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing teaches like exp experience. I have learned of my
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  Speaker 1: lord to be kind, and have found by experience that
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  Speaker 1: I have gained thereby. There is that scattereth and yet increaseth.
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  Speaker 1: And there is that withholdeth more than its meat, but
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  Speaker 1: it tendeth to poverty. There is that maketh himself rich,
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  Speaker 1: yet hath nothing. There is that maketh himself poor, yet
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  Speaker 1: hath great riches Proverbs eleven, twenty four thirteen seven. Then
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  Speaker 1: Samuel whispered to Christiana his mother, and said, mother, this
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  Speaker 1: is a very good man's house. Let us stay here
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  Speaker 1: a good while, and let my brother Matthew be married
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  Speaker 1: here to Mercy before we go any further, the which gayest,
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  Speaker 1: the host overhearing, said, with a very good will, my child.
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  Speaker 1: So they stayed there more than a month, and Mercy
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  Speaker 1: was given to Matthew to wife. While they aid here, Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: as her custom was, would be making coats and garments
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  Speaker 1: to give to the poor, by which she brought a
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  Speaker 1: very good report upon the pilgrims. But to return again
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  Speaker 1: to our story, after supper, the lads desired a bed,
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  Speaker 1: for they were weary with traveling. Then Gaius called to
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  Speaker 1: show them their chamber, but said, Mercy, I will have
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  Speaker 1: them to bed. So she had them to bed, and
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  Speaker 1: they slept well. But the rest sat up all night
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  Speaker 1: for Gaius, and they were such suitable company that they
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  Speaker 1: could not tell how to part. After much talk of
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  Speaker 1: their lord, themselves and their journey, Old mister Honest, he
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  Speaker 1: that put forth the riddle to Gaius, began to nod,
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  Speaker 1: then said, Greatheart, what sir, you begin to be drowsy?
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  Speaker 1: Come rub up, now here is a riddle for you.
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  Speaker 1: Then said mister Honest, let us hear it. Then replied
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, he that would kill, must first be overcome.
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  Speaker 1: Who live abroad wood first must die at home. Ha
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  Speaker 1: said mister honest. It is a hard one, hard to
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  Speaker 1: expound and harder to practiced. But come, landlord, said he,
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  Speaker 1: I will, if you please leave my part to you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you expound it? And I will hear what you say. No,
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  Speaker 1: said Gaeus, It was put to you, and it is
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  Speaker 1: expected you should answer it. Then said the old gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: He first, by grace must conquered be that sin would
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  Speaker 1: mortify who that he lives would convince me unto himself
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  Speaker 1: must die. It is right, said Geus. Good doctrine and
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  Speaker 1: experience teach this for first, and till grace displays itself
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  Speaker 1: and overcomes the soul with its glory, it is altogether
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  Speaker 1: without heart to oppose sin. Besides, if sin is Satan's
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  Speaker 1: chords by which the soul lies bound, how should it
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  Speaker 1: make resistance before it is loosed from that infirmity. Secondly,
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  Speaker 1: nor will any one that knows either reason or grace
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  Speaker 1: believe that such a man can be a living monument
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  Speaker 1: of grace, that is a slave to his own corruptions.
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  Speaker 1: And now it comes into my mind, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you a story worth the hearing. There are two men
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  Speaker 1: that went on pilgrimage. The one began when he was young,
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  Speaker 1: the other when he was old. The young man had
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  Speaker 1: strong corruptions to grapple with, the old man's were weak.
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  Speaker 1: With the decays of nature. The young man trod his
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  Speaker 1: steps as even as did the old one, and was
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  Speaker 1: every way as light as he who now or which
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  Speaker 1: of them had their graces shining clearest, since both seem
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  Speaker 1: to be alike, Mister Honest, the young man's doubtless. For
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  Speaker 1: that which makes head against the greatest opposition gives best
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  Speaker 1: demonstration that it is strongest, especially when it also holdeth
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  Speaker 1: pace with that which meets not with half, so much
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  Speaker 1: as to be sure old age does not. Besides, I
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  Speaker 1: have observed that old men have blessed themselves with this mistake,
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  Speaker 1: namely taking the decays of nature for a gracious conquest
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  Speaker 1: over corruptions, and so have been apt to beguile themselves. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: old men that are gracious are best able to give
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  Speaker 1: advice to them that are young, because they have seen
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  Speaker 1: most of the emptness of things. But yet, for an
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  Speaker 1: old and a young man to set out both together,
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  Speaker 1: the young one has the advantage of the fairest discovery
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  Speaker 1: of a work of grace within him, though the old
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  Speaker 1: man's corruption are naturally the weakest. Thus they sat talking
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  Speaker 1: till break of day. Now, when the family were up,
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  Speaker 1: Christiana bid her son James that he should read a chapter,
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  Speaker 1: so he read fifty third of Isaiah. When he had done,
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  Speaker 1: mister Honest asked why it was said that the Savior
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  Speaker 1: was to come out of a dry ground, and also
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  Speaker 1: that he had no form nor comeliness in him. Mister Greatheart, then,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Greatheart. To the first, I answer, because the
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Jews of which Christ came had then
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  Speaker 1: lost almost all the sap and spirit of religion. To
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  Speaker 1: the second, I say, the words are spoken in the
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  Speaker 1: person of unbelievers, who, because they want the eye that
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  Speaker 1: can see into our Prince's heart, therefore they judge of
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  Speaker 1: him by the meanness of his outside, just like those who,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing that precious stones are covered over with a
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  Speaker 1: homely crust when they have found one, because they know
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  Speaker 1: not what they have found, cast it away again as
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  Speaker 1: men do a common stone. Well, said Gaius, Now you're here,
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  Speaker 1: And since as I know, mister great Heart is good
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  Speaker 1: at his weapons, if you please, after we have refreshed ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: we will walk into the fields to see if we
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  Speaker 1: can do any good. About a mile from hence there
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  Speaker 1: is one sligh good, a giant that doth much annoy
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  Speaker 1: the King's highway in these parts, and I know where
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  Speaker 1: about his haunt is. He is master of a number
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  Speaker 1: of thieves. Twould be well if we could clear these
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  Speaker 1: parts of him. So they consented and went mister great
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  Speaker 1: Heart with his sword, helmet and shield, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: with spears and stars. When they came to the place
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  Speaker 1: where he was, they found him with one feeble mind
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  Speaker 1: in his hand, whom his servants had brought unto him,
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  Speaker 1: having taken him in the way. Now the giant was
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  Speaker 1: rifling him, with the purpose after that to pick his bones,
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  Speaker 1: for he was of the nature of flesh eaters. Well.
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  Speaker 1: So soon as he saw mister Greatheart and his friends
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  Speaker 1: at the mouth of his cave with their weapons, he
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  Speaker 1: demanded what they wanted. Mister Greatheart, we want thee, for
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  Speaker 1: we are come to revenge the quarrels of the many
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  Speaker 1: that thou hast slain of the pilgrims, when thou hast
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  Speaker 1: dragged them out of the King's Highway, wherefore, come out
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  Speaker 1: of thy cave. So he armed himself and came out,
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  Speaker 1: and to battle they went and fought for above an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and then stood still to take wind slay good. Then
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  Speaker 1: said the giant, why are you here on my ground,
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  Speaker 1: mister great Heart, to revenge the blood of pilgrims, as
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  Speaker 1: I told thee before. So they went to it again,
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  Speaker 1: and the giant made mister Greatheart give back. But he
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  Speaker 1: came up again, and in the greatness of his mind
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  Speaker 1: he let fly with such stoutness at the giant's head
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  Speaker 1: and sides that he made him let his weapon fall
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  Speaker 1: out of his hand. So he smote him and slew him,
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  Speaker 1: and cut off his head and brought it away to
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  Speaker 1: the inn. He also took feeble Mind the pilgrim, and
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  Speaker 1: brought him with him to his lodgings. When they were
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  Speaker 1: come home, they showed his head to the family and
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  Speaker 1: set it up as they had done others before, for
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  Speaker 1: a terror to those that should attempt to do as
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  Speaker 1: he Hereafter then they asked mister Feeblemind how he fell
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  Speaker 1: into his hands. Mister feeble Mind then said the poor man.
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  Speaker 1: I am a sickly man, as you see and because
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  Speaker 1: death did usually once a day knock at my door,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I should never be well at home. So
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  Speaker 1: I betook myself to a pilgrim's life, and have traveled
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  Speaker 1: hither from the town of Uncertain, where I and my
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  Speaker 1: father were born. I am a man of no strength
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  Speaker 1: at all of body, nor yet of mind, but would
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  Speaker 1: if I could, though I can but crawl, sped my
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  Speaker 1: life in the pilgrim's way. When I came at the gate,
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  Speaker 1: that is at the head of the way, the lord
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  Speaker 1: of that place did entertain me freely. Neither objected he
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  Speaker 1: against my weakly looks, nor against my feeble mind, but
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  Speaker 1: gave me such things as were necessary for my journey,
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  Speaker 1: and bid me hope to the end. When I came
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  Speaker 1: to the house of the Interpreter, I received much kindness there,
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  Speaker 1: and because the hill of difficulty was judged too hard
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  Speaker 1: for me, I was carried up that by one of
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  Speaker 1: his servants. Indeed, I have found much relief from pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: the nun willing to go so softly as I am
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  Speaker 1: forced to do. Yet still, as they came on, they
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  Speaker 1: bid me be of good cheer, and said that it
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  Speaker 1: was the will of their lord that comfort should be
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  Speaker 1: given to the feeble minded. First, the Salonians five fourteen
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  Speaker 1: and so went on their own pace. When I was
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  Speaker 1: come to assault lane, then this giant met with me
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  Speaker 1: and bid me prepare for an encounter. But alas feeble
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  Speaker 1: one that I was, I had more need of a
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  Speaker 1: cordial So he came up and took me. I conceded
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  Speaker 1: he would not kill me. Also, when he had got
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  Speaker 1: me into his den, since I went not with him willingly,
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  Speaker 1: I believed I should come out alive again. For I
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  Speaker 1: have heard that not any pilgrim that is taken captive
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  Speaker 1: by violent hands, if he keeps heart whole towards his master,
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  Speaker 1: is by the laws of providence, to die by the
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  Speaker 1: hand of the enemy. Robbed, I look to be, and
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  Speaker 1: rob to be sure I am. But I have, as
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  Speaker 1: you see, escaped with life for the which I thank
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  Speaker 1: my King as the author, and you as the means.
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  Speaker 1: Other brunts I also look for. But this I have
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  Speaker 1: resolved on to wit, to run when I can, to
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  Speaker 1: go when I cannot run, and to creep when I
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  Speaker 1: cannot go. As to the main, I thank him that
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  Speaker 1: loved me. I am fixed. My way is before me,
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  Speaker 1: my mind is beyond the river that has no bridge.
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  Speaker 1: Though I am, as you see, but of a feeble mind.
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  Speaker 1: Mister honest, then, said old mister Honest, have not you,
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  Speaker 1: some time ago been acquainted with one mister Fearing a pilgrim,
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  Speaker 1: Mister feeble mind, acquainted with him? Yes, he came from
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  Speaker 1: the town of Stupidity, which lieth four degrees to the
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  Speaker 1: northward of the city of Destruction, and as many off
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  Speaker 1: of where I wen. Yet we were well acquainted, for
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  Speaker 1: indeed he was my uncle, my father's brother. He and
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  Speaker 1: I have been much of a temper. He was a
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  Speaker 1: little shorter than I, but yet we were much of
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  Speaker 1: a complexion. Mister Honest, I perceive ye knew him, and
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  Speaker 1: I am apt to believe also that ye were related
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  Speaker 1: one to another, For you have his whitely look a
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  Speaker 1: cast like his with your eye, and your speech is
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  Speaker 1: much alike, mister feeble mind. Most have said so that
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  Speaker 1: have known us both, And besides what I have read
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  Speaker 1: in him, I have for the most part found in myself. Gaeus, come, sir,
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  Speaker 1: said good gaeus, be of good cheer for your welcome
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  Speaker 1: to me and to my house. What thou hast a
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  Speaker 1: mind to call for freely and what thou wouldst have
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  Speaker 1: my servants do for thee, they will do it with
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  Speaker 1: a ready mind. Then said mister feeble mind. This is
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  Speaker 1: an unexpected favor. And as the sun shining out of
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  Speaker 1: a very dark cloud, did Giant slag Good intend me
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  Speaker 1: this favor when he stopped me and resolved to let
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  Speaker 1: me go. No further did he intend that, after he
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  Speaker 1: had rifled my pockets, I should go to Gaius mine host.
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  Speaker 1: Yet so it is now, just as mister feeble Mind
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  Speaker 1: and Gayut were thus in talk, there came one running
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  Speaker 1: and called at the door, and said that about a
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  Speaker 1: mile and a half off there was one mister Nottwright,
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  Speaker 1: a pilgrim, struck dead upon the place where he was
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  Speaker 1: with a thunderbolt. Mister feeble mind, alas said mister feeble mind,
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  Speaker 1: is he slain? He overtook me some days before I
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  Speaker 1: came so far as hither, and would be my company keeper.
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  Speaker 1: He was also with me when slave with the giant
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  Speaker 1: took me, But he was nimble of his heels and escaped.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems he escaped to die, and I was
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  Speaker 1: taken to live. What one would think doth seek to
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  Speaker 1: slay outright ofttimes delivers from the saddest plight, that very providence,
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  Speaker 1: whose face is death, doth ofttimes to the lonely life
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  Speaker 1: bequeath I taken. Was he did escape and flee. Hans
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  Speaker 1: Crost gave death to him and life to me. Now
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  Speaker 1: about this time Matthew and Mercy were married. Also, Gaius
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  Speaker 1: gave his daughter Phoebe to James, Matthew's brother to wife,
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  Speaker 1: after which time they yet stayed about ten days at
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  Speaker 1: Gaius's house, spending their time and the seasons, like as
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims used to do. When they were to depart, Gaius
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  Speaker 1: made them a feast, and they did eat and drink
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  Speaker 1: and were merry. Now the hour was come that they
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  Speaker 1: must be gone. Wherefore mister Greatheart called for a reckoning,
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  Speaker 1: But Gays told him that at his house it was
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  Speaker 1: not the custom for pilgrims to pay for the entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: He bordered them by the year, but looked for his
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  Speaker 1: pay from the good Samaritan, who had promised him at
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  Speaker 1: his return whatsoever charge he was at with them faithfully
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  Speaker 1: to repay him. Luke ten thirty four and thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: then said mister Greatheart to him, Mister Greatheart, beloved, thou
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  Speaker 1: doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and to
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  Speaker 1: strangers who have borne witness to thy charity before the church, whom,
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  Speaker 1: if thou yet bring forward on their journey after a
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  Speaker 1: godly sort, thou shalt do well Third John five and six.
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  Speaker 1: Then Gays took his leave of them all and his children,
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  Speaker 1: and particularly of mister feeble mind. He also gave him
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  Speaker 1: something to drink. By the way. Now, mister feeble Mind,
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  Speaker 1: when they were going out of the door, made as
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  Speaker 1: if he intended to linger the which when mister Greatheart aspired,
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  Speaker 1: he said, come, mister feeble mind, pray do you go
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  Speaker 1: along with us? I will be your conductor, and ye
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  Speaker 1: shall fare as the rest. Mister feeble mind, alas I
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  Speaker 1: want a suitable companion, You are all lusty and strong,
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  Speaker 1: But I, as you see, am weak. I choose therefore
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  Speaker 1: rather to come behind, lest by reason of my many infirmities,
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  Speaker 1: I should be both a burden to myself and to you.
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  Speaker 1: I am, as I said, a man of a weak
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  Speaker 1: and feeble mind, and shall be offended and made weak
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  Speaker 1: at that which others can bear. I shall like no laughing.
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  Speaker 1: I shall like no gay attire. I shall like no
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  Speaker 1: MP football questions. Nay, I am so weak a man
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  Speaker 1: as to be offended with that which others have a
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  Speaker 1: liberty to do. I do not yet know all the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I am a very ignorant Christian man. Sometimes if I
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  Speaker 1: hear some rejoice in the Lord, it troubles me because
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  Speaker 1: I cannot do so too. It is with me as
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  Speaker 1: it is with a weak man among the strong, or
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  Speaker 1: as with the sick man among the healthy, or as
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  Speaker 1: a lamp despised so that I know not what to do.
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  Speaker 1: He that is ready to slip with his feet is
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  Speaker 1: as a lamp despised in the thought of him that
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  Speaker 1: is at ease. Job twelve five mister greatheart. But brother said,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, I have it in commission to comfort the
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  Speaker 1: feeble minded and to support the weak. You must needs
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  Speaker 1: go along with us. We will wait for you, We
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  Speaker 1: will lend you our help. We will deny ourselves of
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  Speaker 1: some things, both opinionative and practical, for your sake. We
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  Speaker 1: will not enter into doubtful disputations before you. We will
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  Speaker 1: be made all things to you, rather than ye shall
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  Speaker 1: be left behind. First that Salonians five fourteen Romans fourteen
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians eight nine to thirteen nine twenty two. Now
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: all this while they were at Gaye's door. And behold,
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  Speaker 1: as they were thus in the heat of their discourse,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: mister Ready to halt came by with his crutches in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, and he also was going on pilgrimage. Mister
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  Speaker 1: feeble mind, then said mister feeblemind to him, man, how
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  Speaker 1: camest thou hither I was but now complaining that I
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  Speaker 1: had not a suitable companion, But thou art according to
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  Speaker 1: my wish. Welcome, Welcome, good, mister Ready to halt. I
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  Speaker 1: hope thou and I may be some help. Mister Ready
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  Speaker 1: to halt. I shall be glad of thy company, said
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  Speaker 1: the other. And good mister Feeblemind. Rather than we will part,
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  Speaker 1: since we are thus happily met, I will lend THEE
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  Speaker 1: one of my crutches. Mister feeblemind. Nay, said he. Though
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  Speaker 1: I thank THEE for thy good will, I am not
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  Speaker 1: inclined to halt before I am lame. Howbeit I think
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  Speaker 1: when occasion is, it may help me against a dog.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Ready to halt, If either myself or my crutches
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  Speaker 1: can do THEE a pleasure, we are both at thy command, good,
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  Speaker 1: mister Feeblemind. Thus therefore they went on, mister great Heart,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and mister Honest went before. Christiana and her children went next,
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  Speaker 1: and mister Feeblemind came behind. And mister Ready to halt
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  Speaker 1: with his crutches, then said mister Honest, mister Honest, pray sir,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Now we are upon the road, tell us some profitable
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  Speaker 1: things of some that have gone on pilgrimage before us,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, with a good will. I suppose you have
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  Speaker 1: heard how Christian of old did meet with Apollyon in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Valley of Humiliation, and also what hard work he
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: had to go through the valley of the shadow of death. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I think you cannot but have heard how Faithful was
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  Speaker 1: put to it by Madame Wanton with Adam the first,
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  Speaker 1: with one discontent and shame, for as deceitful villains as
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a man can meet with upon the road. Mister Honest, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have heard of all this. But indeed good Faithful
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  Speaker 1: was hard as put to it with shame. He was
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  Speaker 1: an unwearied one, mister Greatheart. Ay, for as the pilgrim
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  Speaker 1: well said, he of all men had the wrong name,
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  Speaker 1: mister Honest. But pray, where was it that Christian and
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  Speaker 1: Faithful met talkative? That saying was also a notable one,
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  Speaker 1: mister great Heart. He was a confident fool, yet many
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  Speaker 1: follow his ways, mister Honest. He had liked to have
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  Speaker 1: beguiled faithful, mister Greatheart, Aye, But Christian put him into
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  Speaker 1: a way quickly to find him out. Thus they went
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  Speaker 1: on till they came to the place where evangelists met
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  Speaker 1: with Christian and Faithful and prophesied to them what should
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  Speaker 1: befall them at Vanity Fair? Then said their guide. Hereabouts
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  Speaker 1: did Christian and Faithful meet with evangelist who prophesied them
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  Speaker 1: of what troubles they should meet with at Vanity Fair?
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  Speaker 1: Mister Honest, say you, sir, I dare say it was
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  Speaker 1: a hard chapter that then he did read unto them,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, it was so, But he gave them encouragement
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  Speaker 1: with all. But what do we talk of them? They
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of lion like men. They had set
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  Speaker 1: their faces like a flint. Do not you remember how
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  Speaker 1: undaunted they were when they stood before the judge. Mister Honest,
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  Speaker 1: well faithful bravely suffered, mister Greatheart, So he did, and
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  Speaker 1: as brave things came on for Hopeful and some others,
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  Speaker 1: as the story relates were converted by his death. Mister Honest, well,
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  Speaker 1: but pray go on, for you are well acquainted with things,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart. Above all that Christian met with after he
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  Speaker 1: had passed through Vanity Fair, one by ens was the
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  Speaker 1: arch one, mister Honest, Biens. What was he, mister Greatheart?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: A very arch fellow, a downright hip, one that would
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  Speaker 1: be religious whichever way the world went, but so cunning
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  Speaker 1: that he would be sure never to lose or suffer
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  Speaker 1: for it. He had his mode of religion for every
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  Speaker 1: fresh occasion, and his wife was as good at it
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  Speaker 1: as he. He would turn from opinion to opinion yea,
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  Speaker 1: and plead for so doing too. But so far as
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  Speaker 1: I could learn, he came to an ill end with
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  Speaker 1: his buyings. Nor did I ever hear that any of
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  Speaker 1: his children were ever of any esteem with any that
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  Speaker 1: truly feared God. Now by this time they were come
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  Speaker 1: within sight of the town of Vanity, where Vanity Fairs kept.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So when they saw that they were so near the town,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: they consulted with one another how they should pass through
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  Speaker 1: the town. And some said one thing, and some another
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: at last, mister Greatheart said, I have, as you may understand,
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  Speaker 1: often been a conductor of pilgrims through this life. Town.
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  Speaker 1: Now I am acquainted with one mister Nason Acts twenty
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  Speaker 1: one sixteen, a Cyprusian by nation, an old disciple, at
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  Speaker 1: whose house we may lodge. If you think good, we
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  Speaker 1: will turn in there, Content said old honest, Content said Christiana.
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  Speaker 1: Content said, mister feeble mind. So they said all. Now
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  Speaker 1: you must think it was eventide by that they got
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  Speaker 1: to the outside of the town. But mister Greatheart knew
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  Speaker 1: the way to the old man's house. So thither they came,
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  Speaker 1: and he called at the door, and the old man
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  Speaker 1: within knew his tongue as soon as ever he heard it,
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  Speaker 1: So he opened the door and they all came in.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Nason, their host, how far have ye come
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  Speaker 1: to day? So they said, from the house of Gaius,
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  Speaker 1: our friend. I promise you, said he you have gone
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  Speaker 1: a good stitch. You may well be weary. Sit down,
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  Speaker 1: So they sat down. Mister Greatheart then said their guide come,
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  Speaker 1: what cheer, good sirs, I dare say you are welcome
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  Speaker 1: to my friend, mister Nason. I also said, mister Nason,
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  Speaker 1: do bid you welcome, and whatever you want, do but say,
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  Speaker 1: and we will do what we can to get it
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  Speaker 1: for you. Mister Honest. Our great want a while since
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  Speaker 1: was harbor and good company, And now I hope we
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  Speaker 1: have both, mister Nason. For harbor, you see what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But for good company that will appear in the trial,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, well said mister Greatheart. Will you have the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims up into their lodging, mister Nason, I will, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Nason. So he had them to their respective places,
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  Speaker 1: and also showed them a very fair dining room where
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  Speaker 1: they might be and sup together until the time should
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  Speaker 1: come to go to rest. Now, when they were seated
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  Speaker 1: in their places and were a little cheery after their journey,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: mister Honest asked his landlord if there was any store
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  Speaker 1: of good people in the town. Mister Nason, we have
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  Speaker 1: a few, For indeed they are but a few, and
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  Speaker 1: compared with them on the other side, mister Honest, but
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  Speaker 1: how shall we do to see some of them? For
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the sight of good men to them that are going
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  Speaker 1: on pilgrimage is like the appearing of the moon and
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  Speaker 1: stars to them that are sailing upon the seas. Mister Nason.
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  Speaker 1: Then mister Nason stamped with his foot, and his daughter
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  Speaker 1: Grace came up. So he said, unto her, Grace, go
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  Speaker 1: you tell my friends, mister Contrite, mister holy Man, mister Saints,
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  Speaker 1: mister dare not lie, and mister Penitent, that I have
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  Speaker 1: a friend or two at my house who have a
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  Speaker 1: mind this evening to see them. So Grace went to
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  Speaker 1: call them, and they came, and after salutation made, they
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  Speaker 1: sat down together at the table. Then said mister Nason,
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  Speaker 1: the landlord my neighbors, I have, as you see, a
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  Speaker 1: company of strangers come to my house. They are pilgrims.
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  Speaker 1: They come from Afar and are going to Mount Zion.
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  Speaker 1: But who quoth he? Do you think? This is pointing
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  Speaker 1: his finger to Christiana. It is Christiana, the wife of Christian,
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  Speaker 1: the famous pilgrim, who, with faithful his brother was so
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  Speaker 1: shamefully handled in our town. At that they stood a maize, saying,
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  Speaker 1: we little thought to see Christiana when Grace came to
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  Speaker 1: call us, wherefore this is a very comfortable surprise. They
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  Speaker 1: then asked her of her welfare and if these young
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  Speaker 1: men were her husband's sons, And when she had told
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  Speaker 1: them they were they said, the King whom you love
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  Speaker 1: and serve, make you as your father, and bring you
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  Speaker 1: where he is in peace. Mister Honest, Then, mister Honest,
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  Speaker 1: when they were all sat down, asked mister Contrite and
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  Speaker 1: the rest in what posture their town was at present?
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  Speaker 1: Mister Contrite, you may be sure we are full of
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  Speaker 1: hurry and fair. Time tis hard keeping our hearts and
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  Speaker 1: spirits in good order when we are in a cumbered condition.
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  Speaker 1: He that lives in such a place as this is,
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  Speaker 1: and has to do with such as we have, has
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  Speaker 1: need of an item to caution him to take heed
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  Speaker 1: every moment of the day, mister Honest. But how are
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  Speaker 1: your neighbors now? For quietness, mister Contrite, They are much
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  Speaker 1: more moderate now than formerly. You know how Christian and
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  Speaker 1: faithful were used at our town. But of late I
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  Speaker 1: say they have been far more moderate. I think the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: blood of faithful lieth as a load upon them till now,
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  Speaker 1: For since they burned him, they have been ashamed to
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  Speaker 1: burn any more. In those days we were afraid to
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  Speaker 1: walk the street, but now we can show our heads.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Then the name of a professor was odious now, especially
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: in some parts of our town. For you now our
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  Speaker 1: town is large, religion is counted honorable, then, said mister
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  Speaker 1: Contrade to them, pray how faireth it with you and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: your pilgrimage? How stands the country affected towards you? Mister honest?
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  Speaker 1: It happens to us as it happens to wayfaring men.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes our way is clean, sometimes foul, sometimes uphill, sometimes downhill.
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  Speaker 1: We are seldom at a certainty. The wind is not
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: always on our backs. Nor is every one a friend
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that we meet within the way. We have met with
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: some notable rubs already, and what are yet behind we
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: know not, But for the most part we find it
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  Speaker 1: true that has been talked of old a good man
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: must suffer trouble. Mister Contrite, you talk of robs. What
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: robs have you met with all, mister Honest? Nay, ask
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart our guide, for he can give the best
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: account of that. Mister Greatheart, we have been beset three
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: or four times already. First Christiana and her children were
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: beset by two ruffians, whom they feared would take away
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  Speaker 1: their lives. We were beset by giant bloody man, giant mole,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and giant slay good Indeed, read it rather beset the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: last and were beset by him. And thus it was
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: after we had been some time at the house of Gaius,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: mine host, and of the whole church, we were minded
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: upon a time to take our weapons with us and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: go see if we could light upon any of those
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  Speaker 1: that are enemies to pilgrims, for we heard that there
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: was a notable one thereabouts. Now Gaius knew his haunt
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: better than I, because he dwelt thereabout. So we looked
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: and looked till at last we discerned the mouth of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: his cave. Then we were glad and plucked up our spirits.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: So we approached up to his den, and lo, when
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: we came there, he had dragged by mere force into
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: his net this poor man, mister feeble Mind, and was
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: about to bring him to his end. But when he
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: saw us, supposing as we thought, he had another prey,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: he left the poor man in his hole and came out.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: So we fell to it full sore, and he lustily
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: laid about him Barton conclusion, he was brought down to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the ground and his head cut off and set up
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: by the wayside. For a terror to such as should
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: after practice such ungodliness that I tell you the truth.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Here is the man himself to affirm it, who was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: as a lamb taken out of the mouth of the lion.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Mister feeble Mind then, said mister Feeblemind. I found this
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: true to my cost and comfort. To my cost when
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: he threatened to pick my bones every moment, and to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: my comfort when I saw mister Greatheart and his friends
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  Speaker 1: with their weapons approach so near for my deliverance. Mister
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: holy Man then said mister holy Man. There are two
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  Speaker 1: things that they have need to possess who go on pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: courage and an unspotted life. If they have not courage,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: they can never hold on their way, and if their
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: lives be loose, they will make the very name of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a pilgrim's stink. Mister Love Saints then, said mister Love Saints.
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  Speaker 1: I hope this caution is not needful among you. But
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  Speaker 1: truly there are many that go upon the road who
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: rather declare themselves strangers to pilgrimage than strangers and pilgrims
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. Mister dare not lie, then, said mister
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: dare not lie? Tis true they have neither the pilgrims
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: reed nor the pilgrim's courage. They go not uprightly, but
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: all ride with their feet. One shoe goeth inward, another outward,
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  Speaker 1: and their hosen are out behind. Here a rag and
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: there a rent to the disparagement of their lord, mister Penitent.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: These things, said mister Penitent, they ought to be troubled,
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  Speaker 1: for nor are the pilgrims like to have that grace
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: put upon them and their pilgrim's progress as they desire,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: until the way is cleared of such spots and blemish.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Thus they sat talking and spending the time until supper
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: was set upon the table, unto which they went and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: refreshed their weary bodies. So they went to rest. Now
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: they stayed in the fair a great while at the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: house of mister Nason, who in process of time gave
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: his daughter Grace unto Samuel Christian son to wife, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: his daughter Martha to Joseph. This time, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: that they stayed here, was long, for it was not
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: now as in former times. Wherefore the pilgrims grew acquainted
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  Speaker 1: with many of the good people of the town and
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: did them what service they could. Mercy, as she was
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: wont labored much for the poor wherefore their bellies and
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: backs blessed her, and she was there an ornament to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: her profession and to say the truth. For Grace, Phoebe,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: and Martha, they were all of a very good nature
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: and did much good in their place. They were also,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all of them very fruitful, so that Christian's name, as
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: was said before, was like to live in the world.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: While they lay here, there came a monster out of
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the woods and slew many of the people of the town.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: It would also carry away their children and teach them
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to suck its whelps. Now no man in the town
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: durst so much as face this monster, but all fled
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: when they heard the noise of his coming. The monster
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: was like unto no one beast on the earth. Its
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: body was like a dragon, and it had seven heads
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and ten horns. It made great havoc of children, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: yet it was governed by a woman Revelations seventeen three.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: So this monster propounded conditions to men, and such men
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: as loved their lives more than their souls, accepted of
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: those conditions. So they came under now mister Greatheart, together
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: with those who came to visit the pilgrims. At mister
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Nason's house, entered into a covenant to go and engage
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: this beast, if perhaps they might deliver the people of
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: this town from the paws and mouth of this so
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: devouring a servant. Then did mister Greatheart, mister Contrite, mister
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: holy Man, mister Dare not Lie, and mister Penitent, with
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: their weapons go forth to meet him. Now, the monster
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: at first was very rampant and looked upon these enemies
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: with great disdain. But they so belabored him, being sturdy
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: men at arms, that they made him make a retreat.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: So they came home to mister Nason's house again. The monster,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: you must know, had his certain seasons to come out
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: in and to make his attempts upon the children of
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the people of the town. At these seasons did these
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: valiant worthies watch him, and did still continually assault him,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: insomuch that in process of time he became not only wounded,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: but lain also he has not made that havoc of
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the townsmen's children, as formerly he had done, And it
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: is verily believed by some that this beast will die
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: of his wounds. This therefore made mister Greatheart and his
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: fellows of great fame in this town, so that many
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: of the people that wanted their taste of things yet
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: had a reverent esteem and respect for them. Upon this account,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: therefore it was that these pilgrims got not much hurt here. True,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: they were some of the baser sort, that could see
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: no more than a mole, nor understand any more than
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: a beast. These had no reverence for these men, and
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: took no notice of their valor and adventures. Second half
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  Speaker 1: of Part two, the sixth stage