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THE

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS,

IN TWO PARTS:

BY JOHN BUNYAN.

WITH NOTES,

AND THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR:

BY THOMAS SCOTT,

CHAPLAIN TO THE LOCK HOSPITAL.

PART II.

PRINTED FOR G. BARRETT, No 289, HOLBORN; AND J. SAUNDERS, GREVILLE-STREET, HOLBORN:

SOLD BY J. PARSONS, PATER-NOSTER-ROW; AND BY THE EDITOR, CHAPEL STREET, UPPER GROSVENOR PLACE.

M.DCC.XCV.

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 showed 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 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

2 SAGACITY'S ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION.

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 populous place, but possessed with a very ill conditioned and idle sort of people.

I thought that was that city, quoth I; I went once myself through that town; and therefore I know that this report you give of 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 you never hear what happened to a man some time ago in this town, (whose name was CHRISTIAN,) that went on a 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

REPORTS CIRCULATED CONCERNING CHRISTIAN.

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 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.

They may, quoth I, well think, if they think any thing that is true, that he liveth well where he is; for he now lives 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 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 showed 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

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