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unto them, ' My dear friends, let us know ourselves, 

 and how it standeth with us. We are men cast on 

 land, as Jonas was out of the whale's belly, when we 

 were as buried in the deep ; and now we are on land, 

 we are but between death and life, for we are beyond 

 both the Old World and the New ; and whether ever 

 we shall see Europe, God only knoweth. It is a kind 

 of miracle hath brought us hither, and it must be little 

 less that shall bring us hence. Therefore in regard of 

 our deliverance past, and our danger present and to 

 come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his 

 own ways. Besides we are come here amongst a Chris- 

 tian people, full of piety and humanity : let us not 

 bring that confusion of face upon ourselves, as to show 

 our vices or unworthiness before them. Yet there is 

 more, for they have by commandment (though in form 

 of courtesy) cloistered us within these walls for three 

 days : who knoweth whether it be not to take some 

 taste of our manners and conditions ? And if they find 

 them bad, to banish us straightways ; if good, to give 

 us further time. For these men that they have given 

 us for attendance, may withal have an eye upon us. 

 Therefore, for God's love, and as we love the weal of 

 our souls and bodies, let us so behave ourselves, as we 

 may be at peace with God, and may find grace in the 

 eyes of this people.' Our company with one voice 

 thanked me for my good admonition, and promised me 

 to live soberly and civilly, and without giving any the 

 least occasion of offence. So we spent our three days 

 joyfully, and without care, in expectation what would 

 be done with us when they were expired. During which 

 time, we had every hour joy of the amendment of our 

 sick, who thought themselves cast into some divine pool 

 of healing, they mended so kindly and so fast. 



The morrow after our three days were past, there 

 came to us a new man, that we had not seen before, 

 clothed in blue as the former was, save that his turban 

 was white with a small red cross on the top. He had 

 also a tippet of fine linen. At his coming in, he did 

 bend to us a little, and put his arms abroad. We of 

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