He whofe lot is will be there to Suffer. town you will be hard befet with enemies, who will strain hard but they will kill you; and be you fure that one or both of you must feal the teftimony which you hold with blood; but be you faithful unto death, and the King will give you a crown of life. He that shall die there, although his death will be unnatural, and his pains perhaps great, he will yet have the better of his fellow; not only becaufe he will be arrived at the celestial city fooneft, but because he escape many miseries that the other will meet with in the rest of his journey. But when you are come to the town and fhall find fulfilled what I have here related, then remember your friend, and quit your felves like men, and commit the keeping of your fouls to your God in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator. Then I faw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they prefently faw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity fair: It is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity fair, because the town where it is kept, is lighter than vanity; and because all that is there fold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the faying of the wife, all that cometh is vanity. This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of antient ftanding: I will fhew you the original of it. The antiquity Almoft five thousand years agone, there of this fair, and were pilgrims walking to the celeftial city, the merchandize. as thefe two honeft perfons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to fet up a fair; a fair wherein should be fold all forts of Vanity, and that it should last all the year long; therefore at this fair are all fuch merchandizes fold, as houfes, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lufts, pleasures, and delights of all forts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, mafters, fervants, lives, blood, bodies, fouls, filver, gold, pearls, precious ftones, and what not. And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be feen feen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind. Here are to be feen too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, falfe fwearers, and that of a blood-red colour, And, as in other fairs of lefs moment, there are feveral rows and streets under their proper names, where fuch and fuch wares are vended: So here likewife you have the proper places, rows, streets, (viz. countries, and kingdoms) where the wares of this fair are sonnest to be found. Here is the Britain row, the French row, the German row, where feveral forts of vanities are to be fold. But, as in other fairs, fome one commodity is as the chief of all the fair; fo the ware of Rome, and her merchandize, is greatly promoted in this fair; only our English nation, with fome others, have taken a diflike thereat. Now, as I faid, the way to the celeftial city lies just thro' the town where this lufty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go Chrift went through this town, muft needs go out of the thro' this fair, world. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day too: Yea, and as I think, it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited him to bay of his vanities; yea, would have made him lord of the fair would he have done him reverence as he went through the town: Yea, because he was fuch a person of honour, Beelzebub had him from street to street, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a little time, that he might, if poffible, aliure the Bleffed One to cheapen and buy fome of his vanities; But he had no mind to the merchandize, and therefore left the town, without laying out fo much as one farthing upon these vanities. This fair, therefore, is an antient thing, of long ftanding, and a very great fair. Now thefe pilgrims, as I faid, muft needs The pilgrims go through this fair. Well, fo they didp enter the fair, but behold, even as they entered into the fair, all the people in thesfair were moved, and the town itself, as it were in a hubbub about them; and that for feyeral reafons. For, First, The pilgrims were cloathed with such kind of rai men 94 infomuch that they concluded the death of thefe t ment Wherefore they threatened, that nei that fo fair ma faid the lams; Seco they did what t naan ; world. feemed diz i. fin beb tr Behold VANITY FAIR! the pilgrims there Even fo it was our LORD pafs'd here, ther cage nor irons should ferve their turn, Their adverfas but that they should die for the abuse they ries refolve a " had done, and for deluding the men of the kill them fair. Then were they remanded to the eage again, until further order should be taken with them; lo they put them in, and made their feet faft in the flocks. Here therefore they called again to mind what they had heard from their faithful friend Evangelist, and were the more confirmed in their ways and fufferings, by what he old them would happen to them. They alfo now comforted each other, that whofe lot it was to fuffer even he hould have the beft on't; therefore each man fecretly withed that he might have that preferment: But, committing themfelves to the all-wife difpofal of him that ruleth all things, with much content they abode the condition in which they were, until they should be otherwife difpofed of. Then, a convenient time being appointed, they brought them forth to their trial, in order to their condemnation. When the time was come, they were brought before their enemies, and arraigned. The judge's name was Lord Hategood. Their indictment was one and the fame in fubftance, though fomewhat varying in form; the contents whereof was this: "That they were enemies to, and dif- Their indiƐlment. "tarbers of their trade; that they had ་་ "made commotions and divifions in the town, and won a party to their own most dangerous opinions, in contempt "of the law of their prince.' Then Faithful began to anfwer, That he had only fet himself against that which Faithful's an bad fet ittelf against him that is higher than fiver for be the highest. And, faid he, as for diftuib by no lord, your ance, I make none, being myself a man of parties that were won to us, were won by bce will foltruth and innocence, and they are only tur re yet in our worfe to the batter; and as to the king you which I have he is Beelzebub, the enemy of our Lord, Ihat he knew, all his angels. ac pritoner at Then proclamation was made, That they to fay for their lord the king against the prifvicktbank's hould forthwith appear and give in theittimony, E and |