were faithfully exercised in and under it, durst not despise the day
of small things, as knowing that he who should do so would not be
thought worthy to be concerned in higher testimonies.

I had now lost one of my hats, and I had but one more. That
therefore I put on, but did not keep it long; for the next time my
father saw it on my head he tore it violently from me, and laid it
up with the other, I knew not where. Wherefore I put on my montero-
cap, which was all I had left to wear on my head, and it was but a
very little while that I had that to wear, for as soon as my father
came where I was I lost that also. And now I was forced to go
bareheaded wherever I had occasion to go, within doors and without.

This was in the eleventh month, called January, and the weather
sharp; so that I, who had been bred up more tenderly, took so great
a cold in my head that my face and head were much swollen, and my
gums had on them boils so sore that I could neither chew meat nor
without difficulty swallow liquids. It held long, and I underwent
much pain, without much pity except from my poor sister, who did
what she could to give me ease; and at length, by frequent
applications of figs and stoned raisins roasted, and laid to the
boils as hot as I could bear them, they ripened fit for lancing, and
soon after sunk; then I had ease.

Now was I laid up as a kind of prisoner for the rest of the winter,
having no means to go forth among friends, nor they liberty to come
to me. Wherefore I spent the time much in my chamber in waiting on
the Lord, and in reading, mostly in the Bible.

But whenever I had occasion to speak to my father, though I had no