What Chriftian left loc!£d an* wen1 ^is wa?3
Sweet Chnftiana opens with her Jfey.
• 4 OBJECT.
But feme love not the Method of your flrfty,
Romance they count ir, throw’t away as Duft.
If I fliould meet with fuch, What fhould I fay ?
Muft I fught them as they flight me, or nay P
ANSWER.
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My Chriftiana, if with fuch ' thou meetf ,
My all means in ad Lcving-wife them greet
Bender them not Reviling for Bpvile-
But if they frown, I prithee on them fmile *
Perhaps 5tis Nature, or fame ill Import.
Mas made them thus Defpife, ar-thus J^etortj
Some love no Fijh, fome love no Cheefe, ami feme
''Love not threir Friendr, nor their own Houfe or HomeJ
Some ft art as Pigy flight Chicken, love not Fowl,
> More then they love a Cuckpw, or an On?/,
Leave fuch, my Chriftiana, to their Choice
Andfeek^tbofe, who to find thee will rejoice j
\ By no means fhive, hut in all humble wifey
prefer*? thee to them in thy Pilgrims GuiJe.
t Go then, my little Booand fhew to all
* That entertain, and bid thee Welcome, fhaU,
JPhat thou [halt kyep clofe, [hut up from the reff.
And wift what thou Jhalt jhew them, may be blejl
To them for good, and ma\e them chufe to be
| Pilgrims ' by better far, then thee and me.
Go then, J fay, tell all Men who thou art"r
Say, I am Chriftiana, and my Part
is now with my Four Sons to tell you what
; It is far Men to takf a Pilgrim s Left,