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Which, if but touched, will such music make,
They'll make a cripple dance, a giant quake.

Those riddles that lie couch'd within thy breast,
Freely propound, expound; and for the rest
Of thy mysterious lines, let them remain
For those whose nimble fancies shall them gain.

Now may this little book a blessing be
To those that love this little book and me!
And may its buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost or thrown away;
Yea, may this second Pilgrim yield that fruit,
As inay with each good Pilgrim's fancy suit;
And may it some persuade that go astray,
To turn their feet and heart to the right way!

Is the hearty prayer of the AUTHOR,
JOHN BUNYAN

THE

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.

PART II.

COURTEOUS COMPANIONS,

SOME time since, to tell you a dream that I had of CHRISTIAN the Pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards the Celestial Country, was pleasant to me and profitable to you. I told you then also what I saw concerning his wife and children, and how unwilling they were to go with him on pilgrimage: insomuch that he was forced to go on his progress without them; for he durst not run the danger of that destruction, which he feared would come by staying with them in the City of DESTRUCTION. Wherefore, as I then shewed you, he left them, and departed.

Now it hath so happened through the multiplicity of business, that I have been much hindered and kept back from my wonted travels into those

The Author dreams again.

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parts where he went, and so could not, till now, obtain an opportunity to make further enquiry after whom he left behind, that I might give you an account of them. But, having had some concerns that way of late, I went down again thitherward. Now having taken up my lodging in a wood, about a mile off the place, as I slept I dreamed again.

And, as I was in my dream, behold, an aged gentleman came by where I lay and because he was to go some part of the way that I was travelling, methought I got up and went with him. So as we walked, and as travellers usually do. I was as if we fell into a discourse, and our talk happened to be about CHRISTIAN and his travels for thus I began with the old man :

Sir, said I, what town is that there below, that lieth on the left hand of our way.

Then said Mr. SAGACITY, (for that was his name,) It is the City of DESTRUCTION, a popu"lous place, but possessed with a very ill-conditioned ' and idle sort of people.'

'I thought that was that City,' quoth I, ' I wen、 once myself through that Town; and therefore I 'know that this report you give it is true.'

SAG. Too true! I wish I could speak truth in speaking better of them that dwell therein.

Well, Sir,' quoth I, ' then I perceive you to be a 'well meaning man, and so one that takes pleasure to hear and tell of that which is good: pray did

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SAGACITY gives an account of CHRISTIAN.

you never hear what happened to a man some time ago in this town, (whose name was CHRISTIAN,) that went on pilgrimage up towards the higher • regions?'

SAG. Hear of him! Ay, and I also heard of the molestations, troubles, wars, captivities, cries, groans, frights, and fears that he met with and had on his journey. Besides, I must tell you, all our country rings of him; there are but few houses that have heard of him and his doings, but have sought after and got the records of his pilgrimage: yea, I think I may say, that this hazardous journey has got many well-wishers to his ways; for, though when he was here, he was a fool in every man's mouth, yet now he is gone he is highly commended of all. For it is said he lives bravely where he is : yea, many of them that are resolved never to run his hazards, yet have their mouths water at his gains.

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They may,' quoth I, 'well think, if they think

any thing that is true, that he liveth well where he is for he now live at and in the Fountain of life, and has what he has without labour and sorrow, 'for there is no grief mixed therewith. But pray 'what talk have the people about him?"

SAG. Talk! the people talk strangely about him some say, that he now walks in white; that

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white; for they are

Rumours spread about CHRISTIAN.

he has a chain of gold about his neck; that he has a crown of gold, beset with pearls, upon his head: others say, that the shining ones, that sometimes shewed themselves to him in his journey, are become his companions, and that he is as familiar with them in the place where he is, as here one neighbour is with another. Besides, it is confidently affirmed concerning him, that the KING of the place where he is has bestowed upon him already a very rich and pleasant dwelling at court,* and that he every day eateth, and drinketh, and walketh, and talketh with him, and receiveth the smiles and favours of him that is Judge of all there. Moreover, it is expected of some, that his Prince, the LORD of that country, will shortly come into these parts, and will know the reason, if they can give any, why his neighbours set so little by him, and had him so much in derision, when they perceived that he would be a Pilgrim.†

worthy. Rev. iii. 4. And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Rev. vi. 11.

* Thus saith the LORD of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. Zech. iii. 7.

+ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodlily committed; and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spokep against him. Jude 14, 15.

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