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HEEDLESS slain and cast into a ditch.

So on they went, and JOSEPH said, 'Cannot we 'see to the end of this Valley as yet?' Then said the Guide, Look to your feet: fór we shall presently be among the snares.' So they looked to their feet, and went on, but were troubled much with the snares.-Now when they were come among the snares, they espied a man cast into the Ditch on the left hand, with his flesh all rent and torn. Then said the Guide, That is one HEEDLESS, that was 'going this way; he has lain there a great while. 'There was one TAKE-HEED with him when he was taken and slain, but he escaped their hands. You · cannot imagine how many are killed hereabouts, and yet men are so foolishly venturous, as to set 'out lightly on pilgrimage, and to come without a 'Guide. Poor CHRISTIAN, it was a wonder that 'he here escaped! but he was beloved of his God; ' also he had a good heart of his own, or else he 'could never have done it.'

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Now they drew towards the end of the way; and just there where CHRISTIAN had seen the Cave when he went by, out thence came forth MAUL a Giant. This MAUL did use to spoil young Pilgrims with sophistry; and he called GREAT-HEART by his name, and said unto him, 'you been forbidden to do said Mr. GREAT-HEART,

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How many times have these things? Then What things?'

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things!' quoth the Giant, You know what things, 'but I will put an end to your trade.' • But pray,'

said Mr. GREAT-HEART, before we fall to it, let

Giant MAUL attacks GREAT-HEART.

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'us understand wherefore we must fight.' (now the women and children stood trembling, and knew not what to do.) Quoth the Giant, You rob the country, and rob it with the worst of thieves." 'These are but generals,' said Mr. GREAT-HEArt, 'Come to particulars man.'

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Then said the Giant, Thou practisest the craft ' of a kidnapper; thou gatherest up women and children, and carriest them into a strange country, 'to the weakening of my master's kingdom.'--But now GREAT-HEART replied, I am a servant of the 'GOD of heaven; my business is to persuade sinners to repentance: I am commanded to do my ' endeavour to turn men, women, and children, "from darkness to light, and from the power of "Satan to God;" and if this be indeed the ground ' of thy quarrel, let us fall to it as soon as thou ' wilt.'

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Then the Giant came up, and Mr. GREAT-HEART went to meet him and as he went he drew his sword; but the Giant had a club.---So without more ado, they fell to it, and at the first blow the Giant struck Mr. GREAT-HEART down upon one of his knees; with that the women and children cried; so Mr. GREAT-HEART, recovering himself, laid about him in a full lusty manner, and gave the Giant a wound in his arm; that he fought for the space of an hour, to that height of heat, that the breath came out of the Giant's nostrils, as the heat doth out of a boiling caldron.

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GREAT-HEART kills the Giant.

Then they sat down to rest them, but Mr. GREATHEART betook himself to prayer; also the women and children did nothing but sigh and cry all the time that the battle did last.

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When they had rested them, and taken breath, they both fell to it again; and Mr. GREAT-HEART with a full blow fetched the Giant down to the ground. Nay, hold, let me recover,' quoth he: So Mr. GREAT-HEART let him fairly get up. So to it they went again, and the Giant missed but little of breaking Mr. GREAT-HEART's skull with his club.

Mr. GREAT-HEART seeing that, runs to him in the full heat of the spirit, and pierced him under the fifth rib; with that the Giant began to faint, and could hold up his club no longer. Then Mr. GREAT-HEART seconded his blow, and smote the head of the Giant from his shoulders.-Then the women and children rejoiced, and Mr. GREATHEART also praised GOD for the deliverance he had wrought.

When this was done, they among them erected a pillar, and fastened the Giant's head thercon, and wrote under it in letters that passengers might read:

'He that did wear this head, was one

That Pilgrims did misuse;

He stopp'd their way, he spared none,

But did them all abuse :

Until that I GREAT-HEART arose,

The Pilgrim's guide to be :

Until that I did him oppose

'That was their enemy.

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