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Rh Wicket-gate, that is at the head of this way, thou cameſt in hither through that fame crooked Lane, and therefore I fear, however thou mayeſt think of thy ſelf, when the reckoning day ſhall come, thou wilt have laid to thy charge, that thou art a Theif and a Robber, inſtead of admitance into the City.

Ignor. Gentlemen, ye be utter He faith ſtrangers to me, I know you not, be to every content to follow the Religion of your one, that he Countrey, and I will follow the Religion of mine. I hope all will be well. And as for the Gate that you talk of, all the World knows that that is a great way off of our Countrey. I cannot think that any man in all our parts doth ſo much as know the way to it; nor need they matter whether they do or no, ſince we have, as you ſee, a fine pleaſant green Lane, that comes down from our Countrey the next way into it.

When Chriſtian ſaw that the man was wiſe in his own conceit, he ſaid to Hopeful, whiſperingly, There is more hopes of a fool then of him. And ſaid moreover, When he that is a fool walketh by the way,  his wiſdom faileth him, and he ſaith to every one that