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Rh Chr. Even to go after my good husband. And with that she fell a-weeping.

Tim. I hope not so, good neighbour; prey, for your poor children's sake, do not so unwomenly cast away yourself.

Chr. Nay, my Children shell go with me; not one of them is willing; to stay behind.

Tim. I wonder in my very heart whet or who hoe brought you into this mind?

Chr. O neighbour! knew you but much as: I do, I doubt not but that you would go with me.

Tim. Pr'ythee, whet new knowledge hast thou got, that so worketh off thy mind from thy friends, and that tempteth thee to go nobody knows where?

Chr. Then Christiana replied, I have been sorely afflicted since my husband's departure from me, but especially since he went over the river. But that which troubleth me most is my churlish carriage to him when he was under his distress. Besides, I am now as he was then; nothing will serve me but going on pilgrimage. I was a-dreaming last night that I saw him. O that my soul was with him! He dwelleth in the presence of the King of the country; he sits and eats with him at his table; he has become a companion of immortals, and has a house now given him to dwell in, to which the beet palace on earth, if compared, seems to me but as a dunghill. (2 Cor. v. 1–4.) The Prince of the place has also sent for me, with promises of entertainment, if I shall come to him: his messenger wee here even now, and has brought me a letter, which invites me to come. And with that she plucked out the letter, and read it, and said to them, What new will you say to this?

Tim. O the madness that hath possessed thee and thy husband, to run yourselves upon such difficulties! You have heard, I am sure, what your husband did meet with, even in a manner at the first step that he took on his way, as our neighbour Obstinate can yet testify, for he went along