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much more doth it please the pious curiosity of a 

 Christian, to see that place on which the blessed Sa- 

 viour of the world was pleased to humble himself, 

 and to take our nature upon him, and to converse 

 with men : to see Mount Sion, Jerusalem, and the 

 very Sepulchre of our Lord Jesus ? How may it 

 beget and heighten the zeal of a Christian, to see 

 the devotions that are daily paid to him at that 

 place ? Gentlemen, lest I forget myself I will stop 

 here, and remember you, that but for my element 

 of Water, the inhabitants of this poor Island must 

 remain ignorant that such things ever were, or that 

 any of them have yet a being. 



Gentlemen, I might both enlarge and lose myself 

 in such like arguments ; I might tell you that Al- 

 mighty God is said to have spoken to a Fish, but 

 never to a Beast ; that he hath made a Whale a 

 Ship to carry and set his Prophet Jonah, safe on the 

 appointed shore. Of these I might speak, but I 

 must in manners break off, for I see Theobald's 

 house. I cry you mercy for being so long, and 

 thank you for your patience. 



Auc. Sir, my pardon is easily granted you : I 

 except against nothing that you have said ; never- 

 theless, I must part with you at this park-wall, for 

 which I am very sorry ; but I assure you Mr. Pis- 

 cator, I now part with you full of good thoughts, not 

 only of yourself, but your recreation. And so, Gen- 

 tlemen, God keep you both ! 



Pise. Well, now, Mr. Venator you shall neither 



