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170 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

Refuse this world, to do their Father's will.

Go tell them also of those dainty things

That Pilgrimage unto the Pilgrim brings,

Let them acquainted be, too, how they are

Beloved 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 their 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,

OBJECTION 1.

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 stitched to their books, to make them do.

But yet they, by their features; do declare

Themselves not mine to be, whose-e'er they are.