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Rh Por. But how doth it happen that you come ſo late, the Sun is ſet?

Chr. I had been here ſooner, but that, wretched man that I am! I ſlept in the Arbour that ſtands on the Hill ſide; nay, I had notwithſtanding that, been here much ſooner, but that in my deep I loft my Evidence, and came without it to the brow of the Hill; and then feeling for it, and finding it not, I was forced with forrow of heart, to go back to the place where I ſlept my deep, where I found it, and now I am come.

Por. Well, I will call out one of the Virgins of this place, who will, if ſhe likes your talk, bring you in to the reſt of the Family, according to the Rules of the Houſe. So Watchful the Porter rang a Bell, at the found of which, came out at the door of the Houſe,a Grave and Beautiful Damfel, named Diſcretion, and asked why me was called.

The Porter anſwered, This Man is in a Journey from the City of Deſtruction to Mount Zion, but being weary, and benighted, he asked me if he might lodge here to night; ſo I told him I would call for thee, who after