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THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF

Go, tell them also of those dainty things

That pilgrimage unto the Pilgrim brings.

Let them acquainted be, too, how they are

Belovéd of their King, under His care;

What goodly mansions for them He provides ;

Though they meet with rough winds and swelling tides

How brave a calm they will enjoy at last,

Who to the Lord, and by His ways, hold fast.
Perhaps with heart and hand they will embrace

Thee, as they did my firstling, and will grace

Thee and thy fellows with such cheer and fare,

As show will they of Pilgrims lovers are.

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OBJECTION I.

But how if they will not believe of me:
That I am truly thine? ’Cause some there be
That counterfeit the Pilgrim and his name ;
Seek, by disguise, to seem the very same;
And by that means have wrought themselves into
The hands and houses of I know not who.

ANSWER.

"Tis true, some have of late, to counterfeit
My Pilgrim, to their own my title set ;
Yea, others half my name and title too
Have stitchéd to their book, to make them do;
But yet they, by their features, do declare
Themselves not mine to be, whose e’er they are.

If such thou meet’st with, then thine only way,
Before them all, is to say out thy say
In thine own native language, which no man
Now useth, nor with ease dissemble can.

If, after all, they still of you shall doubt,
Thinking that you, like gypsies, go about
In naughty-wise the country to defile,
Or that you seek good people to beguile
With things unwarrantable ;—send for me,
And I will testify you Pilgrims be ;
Yea, I will testify that only you
My Pilgrims are; and that alone will do.

OBJECTION II.
But yet, perhaps, I may inquire for him
Of those that wish him damnéd, life and limb ;
What shall I do, when I at such a door
For Pilgrims ask, and they shall rage the more?