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Rh backwards; so I lay at his feet as dead as before. So, when I came to myself again, I cried him mercy; but he said, "I know not how to show mercy;" and, with that, he knocked me down again. He had doubtless made an end of me, but that One came by, and bid him forbear.

Who was that that bid him forbear?

I did not know him at first; but, as He went by, I perceived the holes in His hands and His side; then I concluded that He was our Lord So I went up the hill.

That man that overtook you was Moses. He spareth none, neither knoweth he how to show mercy to those that disobey his law.

I know it very well: it was not the first time that he has met with me. It was he that came to me when I dwelt securely at home, and that told me he would burn my house over my head if I stayed there.

But did not you see the house that stood there, on the top of that hill on the side of which Moses met you?

Yes, and the lions too, before I came at it. But, for the lions, I think they were asleep, for it was about noon; and because I had so much of the day before me I passed by the Porter, and came down the hill.

He told me, indeed, that he saw you go by; but I wished you had called at the house, for they would have showed you so many rarities, that you would scarce have forgot them to the