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22 - Pilgrimage of Christiana and Her Children - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Part two, Pilgrimage of Christiana and her children Courteous Companions.
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Speaker 1: Sometime since to tell you my dream that I had
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Speaker 1: a Christian the pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards
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Speaker 1: the celestial country was pleasant to me and profitable to you.
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Speaker 1: I told you then also what I saw concerning his
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Speaker 1: wife and children, and how unwilling they were to go
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Speaker 1: with him on pilgrimage, insomuch that he was forced to
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Speaker 1: go on his progress without them, for he durst not
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Speaker 1: run the danger of that description which he feared would
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Speaker 1: come by staying with them in the city of Destruction.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore was I then showed you he left them and departed.
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Speaker 1: Now it hath so happened through the multiplicity of business,
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Speaker 1: that I have been much hindered and kept back from
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Speaker 1: my wonted travels into those parts whence he went, and
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Speaker 1: so could not till now obtain an opportunity to make
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Speaker 1: fees the inquiry after those whom he left behind, that
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Speaker 1: I might give you an account of them. But having
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Speaker 1: had some concerns that way of late, I went down
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Speaker 1: again thitherward, now having taken up my lodging in the
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Speaker 1: wood about a mile off the place. As I slept,
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Speaker 1: I dreamed again, and as I was in my dream,
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Speaker 1: behold an age gentleman came by where I lay, And
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Speaker 1: because he was to go some part of the way
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Speaker 1: that I was traveling, methought, I got up and went
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Speaker 1: with him. So as we walked, and as travelers usually do,
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Speaker 1: I was as if we fell into a discourse, and
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Speaker 1: our talk happen to be about Christian and his travels.
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Speaker 1: For thus I began with the old man. Sir, said
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Speaker 1: I what town is that there below? That lieth on
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Speaker 1: the left hand of our way? Then said mister Sagacity,
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Speaker 1: for that was his name. It is the city of Destruction,
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Speaker 1: a populous place, but possessed with a very ill conditioned
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Speaker 1: and idle sort of people. I thought that was that city,
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Speaker 1: quoth I. I went once myself through that town, and therefore
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Speaker 1: know that this report you give of it is true,
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Speaker 1: mister Sagacity, too true. I wish I could speak truth
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Speaker 1: in speaking better of them that dwell w therein well, sir,
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Speaker 1: quoth I, then I perceive you to be a well
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Speaker 1: meaning man, and so one that takes pleasure to hear
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Speaker 1: and tell of that which is good. Pray, did you
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Speaker 1: never hear what happened to a man some time ago
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Speaker 1: of this town whose name was Christian, that went on
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Speaker 1: a pilgrimage up towards the higher regions. Mister Sagacity, hear
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Speaker 1: of him, ay, and I also heard of them molestations, troubles, wars, captivities, cries, groans,
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Speaker 1: frights and fears that he met with and had on
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Speaker 1: his journey. Besides, I must tell you all our country
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Speaker 1: rings of him. There are but few houses that have
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Speaker 1: heard of him and his doings, but have sought after
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Speaker 1: and got the records of his pilgrimage. Yea, I think
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Speaker 1: I may say that his hazardous journey has got many
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Speaker 1: well wishes to his ways. For though when he was
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Speaker 1: here he was fool in every man's mouth, yet now
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Speaker 1: he is gone he is highly commended of all. For
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Speaker 1: tis said he lives bravely where he is. Yea. Many
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Speaker 1: of them that are resolved never to run his hazards,
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Speaker 1: yet have their mouths water at his gains. There, may
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Speaker 1: quoth I well think if they think anything that is true,
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Speaker 1: that he liveth well where he is, For he now
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Speaker 1: lives at and in the fountain of life, and has
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Speaker 1: what he has without labor and sorrow, for there is
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Speaker 1: no grief mixed therewith. But pray, what talk have the
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Speaker 1: people about him? Mister sagacity talk? The people talk strangely
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Speaker 1: about him. Some say that he now walks in white
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Speaker 1: Revelations three four, that he has a chain of gold
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Speaker 1: about his neck, that he has a crown of gold
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Speaker 1: beset with pearls upon his head. Others say that the
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Speaker 1: shining ones who sometimes showed themselves to him in his
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Speaker 1: journey are become his companions, and that he is as
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Speaker 1: familiar with them where he is as here one neighbor
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Speaker 1: is with another. Besides, it is confidently affirmed concerning him
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Speaker 1: that the king of the place where he is has
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Speaker 1: bestowed upon him already a very rich and pleasant dwelling
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Speaker 1: at court, and that he every day eateth and drinketh,
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Speaker 1: and walketh and talketh with him, and receiveth of the
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Speaker 1: smiles and favors of him. That he is judge of
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Speaker 1: all there Zechariah three seven, Luke fourteen, fourteen and fifteen. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: it is expected of some that his Prince, the lord
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Speaker 1: of that country, will shortly come into these parts, and
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Speaker 1: will know the reason, if they can give any why
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Speaker 1: his neighbors set so little by him, and had him
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Speaker 1: so much in derision when they perceived that he would
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Speaker 1: be a pilgrim Jude fourteen and fifteen. For they say
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Speaker 1: that now he is so in the affections of his Prince,
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Speaker 1: that his sovereign is so much concerned with the indignities
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Speaker 1: that were cast upon Christian when he became a pilgrim,
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Speaker 1: that he will look upon all as if done unto
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Speaker 1: himself Luke ten sixteen and no marvel. For it was
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Speaker 1: for the love that he had to his prince that
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Speaker 1: he ventured as he did. I dare say, quoth I
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Speaker 1: I am glad aunt. I am glad for the poor
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Speaker 1: man's sake, for that now he has rest from his labor,
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Speaker 1: and for that he now reapeth the benefit of his
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Speaker 1: tears with joy, and for that he has got beyond
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Speaker 1: the gunshot of his enemies, and is out of the
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Speaker 1: reach of them that hate him Revelations fourteen thirteen, Psalm
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six five and six. I also
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Speaker 1: am glad for that a rumor of these things is
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Speaker 1: noise abroad in this country. Who can tell but that
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Speaker 1: it may work some good effect on some that are
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Speaker 1: left behind. But pray, sir, while it is fresh in
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Speaker 1: my mind, do you hear anything of his wife and children?
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Speaker 1: Poor hearts? I wonder in my mind what they do,
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Speaker 1: mister sagacity, who Christiana and her sons? They are like
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Speaker 1: to do as well as Christian did himself. For though
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Speaker 1: they all played the fool at first, and would by
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Speaker 1: no means be persuaded by either the tears or entreaties
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Speaker 1: of Christian, yet second thoughts have wrought wonderfully with them.
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Speaker 1: So they have packed up and are also gone after him.
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Speaker 1: Better and better, quoth I, But what wife and children
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Speaker 1: and all, mister Sagacity. It is true, I can give
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Speaker 1: you an account of the matter, for I was upon
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Speaker 1: the spot at the instant, and was thoroughly acquainted with
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Speaker 1: the whole affair. Then said I a man it seems,
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Speaker 1: may report it for a truth, mister Sagacity, you need
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Speaker 1: not fear to affirm it. I mean that they are
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Speaker 1: all gone on pilgrimage, both the good woman and her
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Speaker 1: four boys, and being we are, as I perceive, going
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Speaker 1: some considerable way together, I will give you an account
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Speaker 1: of the whole matter. This Christiana, for that was her
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Speaker 1: name from the day that she with her children betook
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Speaker 1: themselves to a pilgrim's life. After her husband was gone
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Speaker 1: over the river and she could hear of him no more,
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Speaker 1: her thoughts began to work in her mind, first for
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Speaker 1: that she had lost her husband, and for that the
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Speaker 1: loving bond of that relation was utterly broken betwixt them.
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Speaker 1: For you know, said he to me, nature can do
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Speaker 1: no less but entertain the living with many a heavy
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Speaker 1: cogitation in the remembrance of the loss of loving relations. This, therefore,
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Speaker 1: of her husband, did cost her many a tear. But
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Speaker 1: this was not all. For Christiana did also begin to
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Speaker 1: consider with herself whether her unbecoming behavior towards her husband
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Speaker 1: was not one cause that she saw him no more,
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Speaker 1: and that in such sort he was taken away from her.
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Speaker 1: And upon this came into her mind by swarms all
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Speaker 1: her unkind, unnatural and ungodly carriage to her dear friend,
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Speaker 1: which also clogged her conscience and did load her with guilt.
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Speaker 1: She was moreover much broken with recalling to remembrance the
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Speaker 1: restless groans, brightish tears, and self bemoanings of her husband,
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Speaker 1: and how she did harden her heart against all his
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Speaker 1: entreaties and loving persuasions of her and her sons to
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Speaker 1: go with him. Yea, there was not anything that Christian
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Speaker 1: either said to her or did before her, or the
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Speaker 1: while that his burden did hang on his back. But
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Speaker 1: it returned upon her like a flash of lightning, and
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Speaker 1: rent the call of her heart insunder, especially that bitter
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Speaker 1: outcry of his what shall I do to be saved?
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Speaker 1: Did ring in her ears most dolefully. Then said she
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Speaker 1: to her children sons, we are all undone. I have
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Speaker 1: sinned away your father, and he is gone. He would
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Speaker 1: have had us with him, but I would not go myself.
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Speaker 1: I also have hindered you of life. With that. The
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Speaker 1: boys fell into tears and cried out to go after
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Speaker 1: their father. Oh, said Christiana, that it had been but
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Speaker 1: our lot to go with him. Then had it fared
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Speaker 1: well with us beyond what it is like to do now?
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Speaker 1: For though I formerly foolishly imagined concerning the troubles of
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Speaker 1: your father, that they proceeded of a foolish fancy that
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Speaker 1: he had, or for that he was overrun with melancholy humors,
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Speaker 1: Yet now it will not out of my mind, but
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Speaker 1: that they sprang from another cause to wit, for that
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Speaker 1: the light of life was given him. James won twenty
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Speaker 1: three to twenty five John eight twelve, by the help
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Speaker 1: of which, as I perceive, he has escaped the snares
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Speaker 1: of death Probabs fourteen twenty seven. Then they all wept
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Speaker 1: again and cried out, Oh woe worth the day. The
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Speaker 1: next night Christiana had a dream, and behold she saw
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Speaker 1: as if a broad parchment was opened before her, in
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Speaker 1: which we recorded the sum of her ways and the crimes,
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Speaker 1: as she thought looked very black upon her. Then she
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Speaker 1: cried out aloud in asleep, Lord, have mercy upon me,
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Speaker 1: a sinner Luke eighteen thirteen. And the little children heard her.
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Speaker 1: After this, she thought she saw two very ill favored
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Speaker 1: ones standing by her bedside, and saying, what shall we
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Speaker 1: do with this woman? For she cries out for mercy,
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Speaker 1: waking and sleeping. If she be suffered to go on
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Speaker 1: as she begins, we shall lose her as we have
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Speaker 1: lost her husband. Wherefore we must, by one way or other,
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Speaker 1: seek to take her off from the thoughts of what
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Speaker 1: shall be hereafter. Else all the world cannot help, but
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Speaker 1: she will become a pilgrim. Now she awoke in a
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Speaker 1: great sweat, also a trembling was upon her. But after
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Speaker 1: a while she fell to sleeping again, And then she
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Speaker 1: thought she saw Christian, her husband, in a place of bliss,
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Speaker 1: among many immortals, with a harp in his hand, standing
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Speaker 1: and playing upon it. Before one that sat on the
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Speaker 1: throne with a rainbow about his head. She saw also
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Speaker 1: as if he bowed his head with his face to
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Speaker 1: the paved work that was under his prince's feet, saying,
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Speaker 1: I heartily thank my Lord and King for bringing me
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Speaker 1: into this place. Then shouted a company of them that
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Speaker 1: stood round about and harped with their harps. But no
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Speaker 1: man living could tell what they said, but Christian and
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Speaker 1: his companions. Next morning, when she was up, had prayed
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Speaker 1: to God and talked with her children, awhile one knocked
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Speaker 1: hard at the door, to whom she spake out, saying,
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Speaker 1: if thou comest in God's name, come in. So he
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Speaker 1: said amen, and opened the door and saluted her with
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Speaker 1: peace be to this house the rich. When he had done,
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Speaker 1: he said, Christiana, knowest thou wherefore I am come. Then
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Speaker 1: she blushed and trembled. Also her heart began to wax
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Speaker 1: warm with desires to know from whence he came, and
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Speaker 1: what was his errand to her, so he said, unto her,
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Speaker 1: my name is secret. I dwell with those that are
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Speaker 1: on high. It is talked of where I dwell, as
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Speaker 1: if thou hast a desire to go thither. Also there
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Speaker 1: is a report that thou art aware of the evil
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Speaker 1: thou hast formerly done to thy husband, in hardening of
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Speaker 1: thy heart against his way, and in keeping of these
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Speaker 1: babes in their ignorance. Christiana, the Merciful One has sent
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Speaker 1: me to tell THEE that he is a god ready
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Speaker 1: to forgive, and that he taketh delight to multiply the
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Speaker 1: pardon of offenses. He also would have THEE to know
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Speaker 1: that he invited THEE to come into his presence, to
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Speaker 1: his table, and that he will feed THEE with the
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Speaker 1: fat of his house and with the heritage of Jacob
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Speaker 1: thy father. There is Christian, thy husband that was with legions.
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Speaker 1: More his companions ever beholding that face that doth minister
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Speaker 1: life to beholders, and they will all be glad when
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Speaker 1: they shall hear the sound of thy feet step over
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Speaker 1: thy father's threshold. Christiana at this was greatly abashed in herself,
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Speaker 1: and bowed her head to the ground. This visitor proceeded
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Speaker 1: and said, Christiana, here is also a letter for THEE,
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Speaker 1: which I have brought from thy husband's king. So she
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Speaker 1: took it and opened it. But it smelt after the
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Speaker 1: manner of the best perfume song of Solomon one three.
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Speaker 1: Also it was written in letters of gold. The contents
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Speaker 1: of the letter were these, that the King would have
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Speaker 1: her to do as did Christian her husband, for that
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Speaker 1: was the way to come to his city and to
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Speaker 1: dwell in his presence with joy forever. At this the
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Speaker 1: good woman was quite overcome, so she cried out to
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Speaker 1: her visitor, Sir, will you carry me and my children
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Speaker 1: with you, that we also may go and worship the King.
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Speaker 1: Then said the visitor Christiana, the bitter is before the Sweet.
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Speaker 1: Thou must through troubles, as did he that went before
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Speaker 1: THEE enter this celestial city. Wherefore I advise THEE to do,
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Speaker 1: as did Christian thy husband, go to the wicket gate
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Speaker 1: yonder over the plain, for that stands at the head
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Speaker 1: of the way up which thou must go. And I
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Speaker 1: wish THEE all good speed. Also I advise that thou
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Speaker 1: put this letter in thy bosom, that thou read therein
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Speaker 1: to thyself and to thy children, until you have got
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Speaker 1: it by heart. For it is one of the songs
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Speaker 1: that thou must sing while thou art in this house
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Speaker 1: of thy pilgrimage Psalm one hundred and nineteen fifty four.
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Speaker 1: Also this thou must deliver in at the further gate.
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Speaker 1: Now I saw in my dream that this old gentleman,
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Speaker 1: as he told me the story, did himself seem to
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Speaker 1: be greatly affected therewith he moreover proceeded and said so.
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Speaker 1: Christiana called her sons together, and began thus to address
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Speaker 1: herself unto them. My sons, I have, as you may perceive,
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Speaker 1: been of late, under much exercise in my soul about
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Speaker 1: the death of your father, not for that I doubt
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Speaker 1: at all of his happiness, for I am satisfied now
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Speaker 1: that he is well. I have also been much affected
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Speaker 1: with the thoughts of my own state and yours, which
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Speaker 1: I verily believe is by nature miserable. My carriage also
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Speaker 1: to your father and his distress, is a great load
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Speaker 1: to my conscience, for I harden both mine own heart
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Speaker 1: and yours against him, and refuse to go with him
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Speaker 1: on pilgrimage. The thoughts of these things would now kill
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Speaker 1: me outright, But that for a dream which I had
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Speaker 1: last night, and but that for the encouragement which this
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Speaker 1: stranger has given me this morning. Come, my children, let
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Speaker 1: us pack up and be gone to the gate that
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Speaker 1: leads to the celestial country, that we may see your
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Speaker 1: father and be with him and his companions in peace
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Speaker 1: according to the laws of that land. Then did her
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Speaker 1: children burst out into tears for joy that the heart
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Speaker 1: of their mother was so inclined. So their visitor bid
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Speaker 1: them farewell, and they began to prepare to set out
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Speaker 1: for their journey. But whilst they were thus about to
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Speaker 1: be gone, two of the women that were Christiana's neighbors
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Speaker 1: came up to her house and knocked at her door,
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Speaker 1: to whom she said, as before, if you come in
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Speaker 1: God's name, come in. At this the women were stunned,
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Speaker 1: for this kind of language they used not to hear
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Speaker 1: or to perceive to drop from the lips of Christiana.
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Speaker 1: Yet they came in. But behold they found the good
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Speaker 1: woman preparing to be gone from her house. So they
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Speaker 1: began and said, neighbor, pray, what is your meaning by this?
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Speaker 1: Christiana answered and said, to the eldest of them, whose
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Speaker 1: name was Missus Timrius, I am preparing for a journey.
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Speaker 1: This Timorus was daughter to him, met Christian upon the
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Speaker 1: heel of difficulty, and would have had him go back
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Speaker 1: for fear of the lions. Timorous, for what journey? I
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Speaker 1: pray you, Christiana, even to go after my good husband.
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Speaker 1: And with that she fell a weeping Timorous, I hope
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Speaker 1: not so good neighbor. Pray for your children's sake. Do
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Speaker 1: not so unwomanly cast away yourself, Christiana. Nay, my children
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Speaker 1: shall go with me. Not one of them is willing
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Speaker 1: to stay behind. Timorous. I wonder in my heart what
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Speaker 1: or who has brought you into this mind, Christiana, own
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Speaker 1: neighbor knew you, but as much as I do, I
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Speaker 1: doubt not but that you would go along with me? Timorous, prithee,
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Speaker 1: What new knowledge hast thou got that so worketh off
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Speaker 1: thy mind from thy friends, and that tempteth thee to
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Speaker 1: go nobody knows where, Christiana. Then Christiana replied, I have
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Speaker 1: been sorely afflicted since my husband's departure from me, but
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Speaker 1: especially since he went over the river. But that which
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Speaker 1: travels me most is my churlish carriage to him when
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Speaker 1: he was under his distress. Besides, I am now as
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Speaker 1: he was. Then, nothing will serve me but going on pilgrimage.
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Speaker 1: I was dreaming last night that I saw him, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that my soul was with him. He dwelleth in the
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Speaker 1: presence of the King of the country. He sits and
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Speaker 1: eats with him at his table. He has become a
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Speaker 1: companion of immortals, and has a house now given him
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Speaker 1: to dwell in to which the best palace on earth,
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Speaker 1: if compared, seems to me but a dunghill second Corinthians
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Speaker 1: five one to four. The prince of the place has
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Speaker 1: also sent for me with promise of entertainment if I
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Speaker 1: shall come to him. His messenger was here even now,
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Speaker 1: and has brought me a letter which invites me to come.
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Speaker 1: And with that she plucked out her letter and read it,
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Speaker 1: and said to them, what now will you say to
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Speaker 1: this timorous Oh, the madness that has possessed thee and
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Speaker 1: thy husband to run yourselves upon such difficulties you have heard.
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Speaker 1: I am sure what your husband did meet with, even
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Speaker 1: in a manner at the first step that he took
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Speaker 1: on his way, As our neighbor Osten can yet testify,
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Speaker 1: for he went along with him, yea and pliable too,
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Speaker 1: until they, like wise men, were afraid to go any further.
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Speaker 1: We also heard over and above how he met with
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Speaker 1: the lions, apollion, the shadow of death, and many other things.
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Speaker 1: Nor is the danger that he met with that vanity
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Speaker 1: fair to be forgotten by thee. For if he, though
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Speaker 1: a man, were so hard put to it, what canst
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Speaker 1: thou being but a poor woman. Do consider also that
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Speaker 1: these four sweet babes are thy children, thy flesh, and
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Speaker 1: thy bones. Wherefore, though thou shouldest be so rash as
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Speaker 1: to cast away thyself, yet for the sake of the
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Speaker 1: fruit of thy body, keep thou at home. But Christiana said,
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Speaker 1: unto her tempt me not, my neighbor, I have now
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Speaker 1: a price put into my hands to get gain, and
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Speaker 1: I should be a fool of the greatest size if
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Speaker 1: I should have no heart to strike in with the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And for that you tell me of all these troubles
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Speaker 1: which I am like to meet with, in the way,
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Speaker 1: they are so far from being to me a discouragement
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Speaker 1: that they show I am in the right. The bitter
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Speaker 1: must come before the sweet, and that also will make
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Speaker 1: the sweet sweeter. Wherefore, since you came not to my
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Speaker 1: house in God's name, as I said, I pray you
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Speaker 1: to be gone, and not to disquiet me further. Then
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Speaker 1: Timurus reviled her and said to her fellow, come, neighbor, Mercy,
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Speaker 1: let us leave her in her own hands, since she
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Speaker 1: scorns our counsel and company. But Mercy was at a
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Speaker 1: stand and could not readily comply with her neighbor, and
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Speaker 1: that for a twofold reason. One her bows yearned over Christiana.
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Speaker 1: So she said, within herself, if my neighbor will needs
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Speaker 1: be gone, I will go a little way with her
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Speaker 1: and help her. Two her bows yearned over her own soul,
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Speaker 1: for what Christiana had said had taken some hold upon
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Speaker 1: her mind. Wherefore she said, within herself again, I will
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Speaker 1: yet have more talk with this Christiana, And if I
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Speaker 1: find truth and life in what she shall say, I myself,
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Speaker 1: with my heart, shall also go with her. Wherefore Mercy
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Speaker 1: began thus to reply to her neighbor Timrius, Mercy, neighbor,
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Speaker 1: I did indeed come with you to see Christiana this morning,
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Speaker 1: And since she is, as you see, taking off her
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Speaker 1: last farewell of the country, I think to walk this
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Speaker 1: sunshiny morning a little with her, to help her on
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Speaker 1: her way. But She told her not of her second reason,
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Speaker 1: but kept it to herself. Timorus, well, I see you
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Speaker 1: have a mind to go a fooling too, But take
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Speaker 1: heed in time and be wise. While we are out
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Speaker 1: of danger, we are out, but when we are in,
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Speaker 1: we are in. So Missus Timris returned to her house
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Speaker 1: and Christiana betook herself to her journey. But when Timris
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Speaker 1: was got home to her house, she sends for some
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Speaker 1: of her neighbors to wit Missus Bat's eyes. Missus inconsiderate,
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Speaker 1: missus light mind, and missus know nothing. So when they
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Speaker 1: were come to her house, she forced to telling of
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Speaker 1: the story of Christiana and of her intended journey, and
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Speaker 1: thus she began her tale timorous neighbors. Having had little
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Speaker 1: to do this morning, I went to give Christiana a visit.
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Speaker 1: And when I came at the door, I knocked, as
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Speaker 1: you know it is our custom, and she answered, if
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Speaker 1: you come in God's name, come in. So in I went,
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Speaker 1: thinking all was well. But when I came in, I
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Speaker 1: found her preparing herself to depart the town, she and
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Speaker 1: also her children. So I asked her what was her
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Speaker 1: meaning by that? And she told me in short that
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Speaker 1: she was now of a mind to go on pilgrimage,
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Speaker 1: as did her husband. She told me also of a
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Speaker 1: dream that she had, and how the king of the
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Speaker 1: country where her husband was had sent an inviting letter
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Speaker 1: to come thither. Then, said missus know nothing, And what
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Speaker 1: do you think she will go? Timorus, I go, she
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Speaker 1: will whatever comes on, and methinks I know it by this.
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Speaker 1: For that which was my great argument to persuade her
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Speaker 1: to stay at home to wit the troubles she was
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Speaker 1: like to meet with on the way, is one great
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Speaker 1: argument with her to put her forward on her journey.
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Speaker 1: For she told me in so many words, the bitter
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Speaker 1: goes before the sweet, yea, and forasmuch as it doth,
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Speaker 1: it makes the sweet the sweeter. Missus batt's eyes, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this blind and foolish woman, said she, And will she
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Speaker 1: not take warning by her husband's afflictions? For my part,
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Speaker 1: I see if he were here again, he would rest
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Speaker 1: himself content in a whole skin, and never run so
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Speaker 1: many hazards for nothing. Missus inconsiderate also replied, saying, away
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Speaker 1: with such fantastical fools from the town, a good riddance.
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Speaker 1: For my part, I say of her, should she stay
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Speaker 1: where she dwells and retain this her mind, who could
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Speaker 1: live quietly by her? For she will either be dumpish
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Speaker 1: or unnighbly, or talk of such matters as no wise
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Speaker 1: body can abide. Wherefore, for my part, I shall never
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Speaker 1: be sorry for her departure. Let her go, and let
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Speaker 1: better come in her room. It was never a good
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Speaker 1: world since these whimsical fools dwelt in it. Then missus
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Speaker 1: lightmind added, as followeth, come put this kind of talk away.
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Speaker 1: I was yesterday at Madame Wanton's, where we were as
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Speaker 1: merry as the maid's. For who do you think should
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Speaker 1: be there? But I and missus love the Flesh, and
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Speaker 1: three or four more with missus Letchery, missus Filth, and
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Speaker 1: some others. So there we had music and dancing, and
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Speaker 1: what else was me to fill up the pleasure? And
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Speaker 1: I dare say my lady herself is an admirable well
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Speaker 1: bred gentlewoman, and mister Letchery is as pretty a fellow.
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Speaker 1: End Part two