Page:A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.djvu/65

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But lying down, the water ran out of my eyes, and carried the dirt with it, that by the morning I recovered my sight again. Yet upon this, and the like occasions, I hope it is not too much to say with Job, Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my ƒriends, for the hand oƒ the LORD has touched me. And here I cannot but remember how many times sitting in their wigwams, and musing on things past, I should suddenly leap up and run out, as if I had been at home, forgetting where I was, and what my condition was, but when I was without, and saw nothing but wilderness and woods, and a company of barbarous Heathen, my mind quickly returned to me, which made me think of that spoken concerning Samson, who said I will go out and ʃhake myʃelƒ as at other times, but he wiʃt not that the Lord was departed ƒrom him.

About this time I began to think that