prompt him to. But What, my purchased one! I trow, hadst thou known never so much beforehand, thou wouldst not have been afraid of a dog. The beggars that go from door to door will, rather than lose a supposed alms, run the hazard of the bawling, barking, and biting too, of a dog; and shall a dog, a dog in another man's yard, a dog Whose barking I turn to the profit of pilgrims, keep any one from coming to me? I deliver them from the lions, and "my darling from the power of the dog." (Ps. xxii. 20, 21.)
Mer. Then said Mercy, I confess my ignorance: I spake what I understood not: I acknowledge that thou dost all things well.
Chr. Then Christiana began to tall: of their journey, and to inquire after the way. So he fed them, and washed their feet, and set them in the way of his steps, according as he had dealt with her husband before.
So I saw in my dream that they walked on their way, and had the weather very comfortable to them.
Then Christiana began to sing, saying,—
Blest be the day that I be
A pilgrim for to be;
And blessed also be the man
That thereto moved me.
Tis true, 'twas long ere I began
To seek to live for ever;
But now I run fast as I can
'Tis better late than never.
Our tears to joy, our fears to faith,
Are turned, as we see;
Thus our beginning (as one saith)
Shows what our end will be.
Now there was, on the other side of the wall that fenced in the way, up which Christiana and her companions were to go, a garden, and that garden belonged to him whose was that barking dog of whom mention was made before. And some
