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" often change a good animal into an human 

 «* being, and make a great lord of him. I 

 " own this thought makes me fhudder, and I 

 " cannot think of it without trembling ; every 

 " night I dream of it, and fometimes when I 

 tl am afleep, I think I am faddled, and already 

 " ftart at the fir ft lafti of the rider's whip ; 

 <« after this, I awake in great trouble and 

 " anxiety, uncertain whether I am a man or 

 fi a horfe. But alas ! what will become of 

 " me, when I am to be a horfe in reality ! I 

 " have therefore taken this refolution : It is 

 " faid, that thofe of your religion are not ex- 

 * ' pofed to this misfortune ; but that with you 

 " men remain men, and will be fuch in the 

 " world to come. I befeech you, receive me 

 " among you. I know it is difficult to live con- 

 li formable to your religion ; but if it was 

 t( even more difficult, I am however ready to 

 «' embrace your faith, and at any rate to be a 

 " Chriftian rather than a creature void of 

 " reafon." This feci: particularly prohibits 

 pride, uncleannefs, and drinking of wine. 

 They acknowledge a God, who dwells in 

 heaven, fees every thing, rewards virtue and 

 puniihes vice ; for which reafon, if I made a 

 doubt of what they faid, they anfwered with 

 great emotion, that I being a priefl fhould afk 



