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Rh but all this l got over pretty well. But a dream that I had of two ill-looking miss that I thought did plot how to make me miscarry in my journey, that hath troubled me much: yea, it still runs in my mind, and makes me afraid of every one that I meet, lest they should meet me to do me a mischief, and to turn me out of my way. Yea, [may tell my Lord, though I would not have everybody know of it, that between this and the gate by which we got into the way, we were both so sorely assaulted, that we were made to cry out, Murder! and the two that made this assault upon us were like the two that I saw in my dream.

Then said the Interpreter. Thy beginning is good, thy latter end shall greatly increase. So he addressed himself to Mercy, and said unto her, And what moved thee to come hither, sweetheart?

Then Mercy blushed and trembled, and for a while continued silent.

Inter. Then said he, Be not afraid; only believe, and speak thy mind.

Mer. So she began, and said, Truly, sir, my want of are perience is that which makes me covet to he in silence, and that also that fills me with fears of coming short at last. I cannot tell of visions and dreams, my friend Christiana can; nor know I what it is to mourn for my refusing the counsel of those that were good relations.

Inter. What was it then, dear heart, that hath prevailed with thee to do thou hast done?

'Mer. Why, when our friend here was packing up to be gone from our town, I and another went accidentally to see her. So we knocked at the door and went in. When we were within, and seeing what she was doing, we asked her what was her meaning. She said she was sent for to go to her husband; and then she up and told us how she had seen him in a dream, dwelling in a curious place among immortals, wearing a crown, playing upon a harp, eating and