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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs
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ſtrange place, as he was? 'Tis a wonder he did not die with grief, poor heart! I was told, that he ſcattered almoſt all the red of the way with nothing but doleful and bitter complaints. Telling alſo to all that over-took him, or that he over-took in the way as he went, where he was Robbed, and how; who they were that did it, and what he loſt; how he was wounded, and that he hardly eſcaped with life.

Hope., But 'tis a wonder that his necejfities did not put him upon ſelling, or pawning of his Jewels, that he might have wherewith to relieve himſelf in his Journey.

Chr. Thou talkeſt like one upon whoſe head is the Shell to this very Chriſtian day: Chriſtian ſnibbeth his felllow for unadviſed ſpeaking. For what ſhould he pawn them? or to whom ſhould he ſell them? In all that Countrey where he was Robbed, his Jewels were not accounted of, nor did he want that relief which could from thence be adminiſtred to him; beſides, had his Jewels been miſſing at the Gate of the Cœleſtial City, he had (and that he knew well enough) been excluded from an Inheritance there; and that
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