212 The Author's Way of ANSWER. My Christiana, if with such thou meet, But if they frown, I pr'ythee on them smile: Has made them thus despise, or thus retort. Some love no cheese, some love no fish, and some Love not their friends, nor their own house or home; Some start at pig, slight chicken, love not fowl Go, then, my little Book, and show to all Go, then, I say, tell all men who thou art; Go, also, tell them who and what they be Sending forth his Second Part. 213 "Tis like those days wherein the young ones cried Hosanna! to whom old ones did deride. Next tell them of old Honest, whom you found With his white hairs, treading the Pilgrim's ground; Yea, tell them how plain-hearted this man was, How after his good Lord he bare his cross. Perhaps with some gray head this may prevail With Christ to fall in love, and sin bewail. Tell them also, how Master Fearing went On pilgrimage, and how the time he spent In solitariness, with fears and cries; And how, at last, he won the joyful prize. He was a good man, though much down in spirit; He is a good man, and doth life inherit. Tell them of Master Feeble-mind also, Who, not before, but still behind would go. Show them also, how he had like been slain, And how one Great-heart did his life regain. This man was true of heart, though weak in grace; One might true godliness read in his face. Then tell them of Master Ready-to-halt, A man with crutches, but much without fault; And let all know, though weakness was their chance, Yet sometimes one could sing, the other dance. Overlook not Master Despondency, Nor Much-afraid, his daughter, though they lie 214 The Author's Way, &c. They softly went, but sure; and, at the end, When thou hast told the world of all these things, To those that love this little Book and me: Is the hearty prayer of the Author, JOHN BUNYAN. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Part Second. OURTEOUS COMPANIONS, Some time since, to tell you my 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 whence he went, and so could not, till now, obtain an opportunity to make further inquiry 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 lodgings 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 gentle |