THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD ΤΟ THAT WHICH IS TO COME DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM WHEREIN IS DISCOVERED THE MANNER OF HIS SETTING OUT, HIS DANGEROUS JOURNEY, AND SAFE ARRIVAL AT THE DESIRED COUNTRY BY JOHN BUNYAN I have used similitudes. Hosea 12. 10. THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHen Hen at the first I took my Pen in hand, And thus it was: I writing of the Way About their Journey, and the way to Glory, In more than twenty things, which I set down; Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly. Well, so I did; but yet I did not think 5 ΤΟ 15 20 Thereby to please my Neighbor; no not I; Neither did I but vacant seasons spend 25 From worser thoughts, which make me do amiss. And quickly had my thoughts in black and white. 30 For having now my Method by the end, For length and breadth the bigness which you see. 35 40 I print it will; and so the case decided. At last I thought, Since you are thus divided, For, thought I, Some, I see, would have it done, 45 Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone: I did too with them thus expostulate. 60 |