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Rh me a fair Company-keeper, if you will ſtill admit me your aſſociate.

Chr. If you will go with us, you muſt go againſt Wind and Tide, the which, I perceive, is againſt your opinion: You muſt alſo own Religion in his Rags, as well as when in his Silver Slippers, and ſtand by him too, when bound in Irons, as well as when he walketh the Streets with applauſe.

By-ends. You muſt not impoſe, nor Lord it over my Faith; leave me to my liberty, and let me go with you.

Chr. Not a ſtep further, unleſs you will do in what I propound, as we.

Then ſaid By-ends, I ſhall never deſert my old Principles, ſince they are harmleſs and profitable. If I may not go with you, I muſt do as I did before you overtook me, even go by my ſelf, untill ſome overtake me that will be glad of my Company.

Then Chriſtian and Hopeful outwent him, and went till they came at a delicate Plain, called Eaſe, where they went with much content; but that plain was but narrow, ſo they were quickly got over it. Now at the further ſide of that plain, was a little Hill called Lucre, and in that Hill a