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92 now what you have met with in the way as you came; for I know you have met with some things, or else it may be writ for a wonder."

I escaped the slough that I perceive you fell into, and got up to the gate without that danger; only I met with one whose name was Wanton, that had like to have done me a mischief.

It was well you escaped her net: Joseph was hard put to it by her, and he escaped her as you did; but it had like to have cost him his life. But what did she do to you?

You cannot think (but that you know something) what a flattering tongue she had; she lay at me hard to turn aside with her, promising me all manner of enjoyment.

Nay, she did not promise you the enjoyment of a good conscience.

You know what I mean—not the enjoyment of the soul, but of the body.

Thank God you have escaped her: the abhorred of the Lord shall fall into her ditch.

Nay, I know not whether I did wholly escape her or no.

Why, I suppose you did not consent to her desires?

No, not to defile myself; for I remembered an old writing that I had seen which saith, "Her steps take hold of hell." So I shut mine eyes, because I would not be bewitched with her looks. Then she railed on me, and I went my way.