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Now they have seen and heard him, him commend;

And to those whom they love they do him send.
Wherefore, my Second Part, thou need’st not be

Afraid to show thy head; none can hurt thee

That wish but well to him that went before,

Cause thou com’st after with a second store

Of things as good, as rich, as profitable,

For young, for old, for staggering, and for stable.

OBJECTION IIT.
But some there be that say, ‘‘He laughs too loud ;”
And some do say, ‘“ His head is in a cloud ;”
Some say his words and stories are so dark,
They know not how by them to find his mark.

ANSWER.
One may, I think, say, Both his laugns and cries
May well be guessed at by his watery eyes.
Some things are of that nature as to make
One’s fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
When Jacob saw his Rachel with the sheep,
He did at the same time both kiss and weep.
Whereas some say, “ A cloud is in his head ;”
That doth but show how wisdom’s covered
With its own mantles, and to stir the mind
To a search after what it fain would find.
Things that seem to be hid in words obscure,
Do but the godly mind the more allure
To study what those sayings should contain
That speak to us in such a cloudy strain.
LT also know, a dark similitude
Will on the fancy more itself intrude,
And will stick faster in the heart Pid head,
Than things from similes not borrowed.
fi Whereforé, my ook, let no discouragement
5 Hinder thy travels} behold, thou art sent
To friends,/not foes} to friends that will give place
To hee, my Pilgrims, and thy words embrace.
Besides, what on Pilgrim left concealed,
Thou, my~brave/4 Sécond Pilgrim, hast revealed ;
~ What CuristraN left locked up, and went eh way,
; 7 “. Sweet CuristrAna opens with her key.

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OBJECTION IV.
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, Romaded they count it,—throw’t away as dust.
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