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James MacKay Sketchbook

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in black gall ink, t.: (19); l.l.: (The Interpreter shows Christian the "Professor" in the iron cage) [underlined] / "So the Interpreter took him by the hand and led him into / "a very dark room where sat a man in an iron cage /"Now the man to look on seemed very sad...and he sighed as /"is he would break his heart...Then said Christian to the man /"What art thou? The man answered I am what I was not /"once...I was once a fair and flourishing professor both in /"mine own eyes and also in the eyes of others ye I am now /"a man of despair and am shut up in this iron cage. /"Chris.-"But how camest thou into this condition? /"Man.-I left off to watch and be sober. &c.