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THE AUTHOR’S WAY

OF SENDING FORTH HIS

SECOND PART OF THE PILGRIM.

>O now, my little book, to every place
Where my first Pilgrim has but shown his face ;
Call at their door: if any say “ Who’s there?”
Then answer thou, “ Curistrana is here.”
If they bid thee come in, then enter thou,
With all thy boys; and then as thou know’st how,
Tell who they are, also from whence they came—
Perhaps they’lI know them by their looks or name:
But, if they should not, ask them yet again
If formerly they did not entertain
One CuristiaN, a Pilgrim? IEf they say
They did, and were delighted in his way,
Then let them know that those related were
Unto him; yea, his wife and children are.

Tell them that they have left their house and home:
Are turnéd Pilgrims; seek a world to come;
That they have met with hardships in the way,
That they do meet with troubles night and day ;
That they have trod on serpents, fought with devils ;
Have also overcome a many evils;
Yea, tell them also of the next who have,
Of love to pilgrimage, been stout and brave
Defenders of that way ; and how they still

Refused this world to do their Father’s will.
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