ijS €$e Ifeecona $art of Brought them up behind, they made a pretty goo'
Shift to wag along. it
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The Way was alfo here very wearifome, throng! SS
:Dirt and Slabbinefs. Nor was there on all thi
.Ground, fo much as one Inn, or yieluaUing.Houff
•therein to refresh the feebler Sort. Jdere therefor
was Grunting, and Puffing, and Sighing: While en J
arumbleth over a Bulb, another flicks faft in the Dirt
and the Children, fome of them, lofl their Shoes ii
the Mire, while one cries out, I am down; and ano 1
ther, Ho, where are you? And a third, The Bulhe J
-have got fuch fafl hold on me, J think I cannot ge n
away from them.
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Then they oame to an Arbour, ’Warm, and pro
Hliflng much Refrefhing to the Pilgrims : For it wa jij
finely wrought above-head, beautified
with Greens, furnifhed with Eencht
and Settles. It had in it a foft Coucl
where the Weary might lean. This
you muft think, all Things confider
ed, was tempting; for the Pilgrim
already began to be foiled with th J
Badnefs of the Way ; but there wa
^ot one of them that made fo much as a Motion t
flop there. Yea, for ought I could perceive, the
continually gave fo good Heed to the Advice of thei ^
Guide, and-h£~did fo faithfully tell them of Cangerj
and of the Nature of Danger when they were a
■them that ufually when they were neareft to them *
they did moft pluck up their Spirits, and hearten on {[
another to deny the Flefti. This Arbour was called
The Slothful's Friend, on purpofe to allure, if it raigh “
be, fome of the Pilgrims there, to take up thei^
Reft, when weary.
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