Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            of the amendment of our ſick, who thought themſelves caſt into ſome di-
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            vine Pool of Healing, they mended ſo kindly and ſo faſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12590" xml:space="preserve">The morrow after our three days were paſt, there came to us a new Man
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            that we had not ſeen before, cloathed in blew as the ſormer was, ſave that
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            his Turbant was white with a ſmall Red Croſs on the top; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12591" xml:space="preserve">he had alſo a
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            Tippet of fine Linnen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12592" xml:space="preserve">At his coming in he did bend to us a little, and put
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            his arms abroad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12593" xml:space="preserve">We of our parts ſaluted him in a very lowly and ſubmiſſive
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            manner, as looking, that ſrom him we ſhould receive ſentence of Life or
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            Death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12594" xml:space="preserve">He deſired to ſpeak with ſome ſew of us; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12595" xml:space="preserve">whereupon ſix of us
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            onely ſtaid, and the reſt avoided theroom. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12596" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid, “I am by office Go-
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            “vernor of this Houſe of Strangers, and by Vocation I am a Chriſtian Prieſt;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12597" xml:space="preserve">“and therefore am come to you to offer you my ſervice, both as Strangers,
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            “and chiefly as Chriſtians. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12598" xml:space="preserve">Some things I may tell you, which I think you
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            “will not be un willing to hear. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12599" xml:space="preserve">The State hath given you licence to ſtay on
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            “Land for the ſpace of ſix weeks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12600" xml:space="preserve">and let it not trouble you, if your occa-
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            “ſions ask further time, for the Law in this Point is not preciſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12601" xml:space="preserve">and I do
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            “not doubt, but my ſelf ſhall be able to obtain for you ſuch ſurther time as
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            “ſhall be convenient. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12602" xml:space="preserve">Ye ſhall alſo underſtand, that the Strangers Houſe is at
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            “this time rich and much aforehand, for it hath laid up Revenue theſe Thir-
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            “ty ſeven years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12603" xml:space="preserve">for ſo long it is ſince any Stranger arrived in this part: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12604" xml:space="preserve">And
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            “there fore take ye no care, the State will deſray you all the time you ſtay,
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            “neither ſhall you ſtay one day leſs for that. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12605" xml:space="preserve">As for any Merchandize you
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            “have brought, ye ſhall be well uſed, and have your Return, either in Mer-
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            “chandize, or in Gold and Silver; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12606" xml:space="preserve">for to us it is all one. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12607" xml:space="preserve">And iſ you have
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            “any other requeſt to make, hide it not, for ye ſhall finde we will not make
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            “your countenance to fall by the anſwer ye ſhall receive. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12608" xml:space="preserve">Onely this I muſt
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            “tell you, that none of you muſt go above a Karan (that is with them a mile and
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            “an half) from the Walls of the City without ſpecial leave. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12609" xml:space="preserve">We anſwered,
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            after we had looked a while upon one another, admiring this gracious and
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            parent-like uſage, “That we could not tell what to ſay, for we wanted
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            “words to expreſs our thanks, and his noble free offers leſt us nothing to
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            “ask. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12610" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemed to us, that we had before us a Picture of our Salvation in
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            “Heaven; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12611" xml:space="preserve">for we that were a while ſince in the Jaws of Death, were now
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            “brought into a place where we found nothing but Conſolations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12612" xml:space="preserve">For the
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            “Commandment laid upon us, we would not fail to obey it, though it
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            “was impoſſible but our hearts ſhould be inflamed to tread further upon
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            “this happy and holy Ground. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12613" xml:space="preserve">We added, “That our Tongues ſhould firſt
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            “cleave to the Roofs of our Mouths, ere we ſhould forget either this Re-
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            “verend Perſon, or this whole Nation, in our Prayers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12614" xml:space="preserve">We alſo moſt
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            humbly beſought him to accept of us as his true Servants, by as juſt a right
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            as ever Men on Earth were bounden, laying and preſenting both our per-
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            ſons and all we had at his feet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12615" xml:space="preserve">He ſaid, He was a Prieſt, and looked for a Prieſts
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            re ward, which was our Brotherly love, and the good of our Souls and Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12616" xml:space="preserve">So he
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            went from us, not without tears of tenderneſs in his eyes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12617" xml:space="preserve">and leſt us alſo
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            confuſed with joy and kindneſs, ſaying amongſt our ſelves, That vve vvere
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            come into a Land of Angels, which did appear to us daily, and prevent us with comforts
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            which we thought not of, much leß expected.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12619" xml:space="preserve">The next day about ten of the clock the Governor came to us again,
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            and after ſalutations, ſaid familiarly, That he vvas come to viſit us, and called for
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            a Chair, and ſate him down; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12620" xml:space="preserve">and we being ſome ten of us (the reſt were of
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            the meaner ſort, or elſe gone abroad) ſite down with him: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12621" xml:space="preserve">And when we
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            were ſet, he began thus, “We of this Iſland of Benſalem (for ſo they call it </s>
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