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thus bewayling his unhappy miſcarriage, he lift up his eyes, and behold there was a very ſtately Palace before him, the name whereof was Beautiful, and. it ſtood juſt by the High-way ſide.
So I ſaw in my Dream, that he made haſte and went forward,that if poſſible he might get Lodging there; now before he had gone far, he entered into a very narrow paſſage, which was about a furlong off of the Porters Lodge, and looking very narrowly before him as he went, he eſpied two Lions in the way. Now, thought he, I ſee the dangers that Miſtruft and Timorus, were driven back by. (The Lions were Chained, but he ſaw not the Chains) Then he was afraid, and thought alſo himſelf to go back after them,for he thought nothing but death was before him: But the Porter at the Lodge, whofe Name is m m Mar. 13 Watchful, perceiving that Chriſtian made a halt, as if he would go back, cried unto him, ſaying, Is thy ſtrength ſo ſmall? fear not the Lions,for they are Chained: and are placed there for trial of faith where it is; and for diſcovery of thoſe that
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