'Bunyan employs _pry_,' says Miss Peacock in her excellent notes, 'in a more favourable sense than it now bears.

As, for instance, it is said in another part of this same book that the men of Mansoul were allowed to _pry_ into the words of the Holy Ghost and to expound them to their best advantage.
Honest anxiety for the welfare of his fellow-townsmen was Mr.Prywell's chief characteristic.

_Pry_ is another form of _peer_--to look narrowly, to look closely.' And God, says John Bunyan, would have it so.
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'A great lover of Mansoul,' 'always a lover of Mansoul'; again and again that is testified concerning Mr.Prywell.

It was not love for the work that led Mr.Prywell to give up his days and his nights as his history tells us he did.