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Mercy, a young woman, is Christiana’s neighbor. Mercy agrees to go on pilgrimage with Christiana out of concern both for her neighbor and herself. She is a tender-hearted and compassionate person; she is also rather shy, reluctant to speak about her spiritual experiences. She spends most of her spare time making clothes for the poor. Though Mercy has had a number of suitors, like Mr. Brisk, she refuses to marry anyone who doesn’t share her faith in God. Later, she marries Matthew on Gaius’s suggestion and has at least one child.
Mercy Quotes in The Pilgrim’s Progress
The The Pilgrim’s Progress quotes below are all either spoken by Mercy or refer to Mercy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2: The Interpreter’s House
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Now said he, compare this Hen to your King, and these Chickens to his obedient ones. For answerable to her, himself has his methods which he walketh in towards his People; by his common call he gives nothing; by his special call he always has something to give; he has also a brooding voice for them that are under his wing; and he has an outcry to give the alarm when he seeth the Enemy come. I chose, my Darlings, to lead you into the Room where such things are, because you are Women, and they are easy for you.
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Part 2: The Valley of Humiliation
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Then said Mercy, I think I am as well in this Valley as I have been anywhere else in all our Journey, the place methinks suits with my spirit. I love to be in such places where there is no rattling with Coaches, nor rumbling with Wheels. Methinks here one may without much molestation, be thinking what he is, whence he came, what he has done, and to what the King has called him. Here one may think, and break at heart, and melt in one's spirit, until one's eyes become like the Fishpools of Heshbon.
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Mercy Quotes in The Pilgrim’s Progress
The The Pilgrim’s Progress quotes below are all either spoken by Mercy or refer to Mercy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2: The Interpreter’s House
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Now said he, compare this Hen to your King, and these Chickens to his obedient ones. For answerable to her, himself has his methods which he walketh in towards his People; by his common call he gives nothing; by his special call he always has something to give; he has also a brooding voice for them that are under his wing; and he has an outcry to give the alarm when he seeth the Enemy come. I chose, my Darlings, to lead you into the Room where such things are, because you are Women, and they are easy for you.
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Part 2: The Valley of Humiliation
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Then said Mercy, I think I am as well in this Valley as I have been anywhere else in all our Journey, the place methinks suits with my spirit. I love to be in such places where there is no rattling with Coaches, nor rumbling with Wheels. Methinks here one may without much molestation, be thinking what he is, whence he came, what he has done, and to what the King has called him. Here one may think, and break at heart, and melt in one's spirit, until one's eyes become like the Fishpools of Heshbon.
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