The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME Che Second JPart DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE MANNER OF THE SETTING OUT OF CHRISTIAN’S WIFE AND CHILDREN THEIR DANGEROUS FOURNEY, AND SAFE ARRIVAL AT THE DESIRED COUNTREY *¢T have used Similitudes.’’—Hos. xii. 10 BY JOHN BUNYAN The AutHor’s Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. O now, my little Book, to every place, Where my first Pilgrim has but shewn his Face: Call at their door: If any say, Who’s there? Then answer thou, Christiana is here. Lf they bid thee Come in, then enter thou, With all thy boys: And then as thou know’st how ; Tell who they are, also from whence they came ; Perhaps theyl know them by their looks or name: But tf they should not, ask them yet again, Lf formerly they did not entertain One Christian a Pilgrim? Tf they say, They did, and were delighted in his Way, Then let them know, that those related were Unto him: Yea, his Wife and Children are. Tell them that they have left their House and Home; Are turned Pilgrims, seek a World to come: That they have met with Hardships in the Way, That they do meet with Troubles night and day : That they have trod on Serpents, fought with Devits, Have also overcome a many evils. Yea, tell them also of the next, who have Of Love to Pilgrimage, been stout and brave Defenders of that Way, and how they stil kefuse this World, to do their Father's will. Go tell them also of those dainty things, That Pilgrimage unto the Pilgrim brings : Let them acquainted be too, how they are Beloved of their King, under his Care ; What goodly Mansions for them he provides, Tho they meet with rough Winds and swelling Tides, How brave a Calm they will enjoy at last, Who to their Lord, and by his Ways hold fast. Perhaps with heart and hand they will embrace Thee, as they did my firstling, and will grace Thee, and thy fellows, with such cheer and fare, As shew will, they of Pilgrims Lovers are. 1. OBJECTION. But how, if they will not believe of me That I am truly thine; ’cause some there be That counterfeit the Pilgrim and his Name, Seek, by Disguise, to seem the very same, And by that means have brought themselves into The hands and houses of 1 know not who. ANSWER. Tis true, some have of late to counterfeit My Pilgrim, to their own, my Title set ; Yea, others half my Name and Title too Have stitched to their Book, to make them ao ; But yet they by thetr Features do declare Themselves not mine to be, whose &er they are. Lf such thou meet’st with, then thine only way Before them all, is, to Say out thy Say, dn thine own native Language, which no man Now useth, nor with ease dissemble can. If, after all, they sttil of you shall doubt, Thinking that you, like Gipsies, go about In naughty wise, the Country to defile, Or that you seek good people to beguile With things unwarrantable, send for mie, And I will testify you Pilgrims de ; Yea, 1 will testify that only you My Pilgrims are; and that alone will do. 2. OBJECT. But yet, perhaps, I may enquire for him, Of those that wish him damned life and limb. What shall I do, when I at such a door For Pilgrims ask, and they shall rage the more? ANSWER. fright not thyself, my Book, for such bugbears Are nothing ese but Ground for groundless fears, My Pilgrim’s Book has travell’d Sea and Land, Yet could I never come to understand That it was slighted or turn’d out of door By any Kingdom, were they Rich or Poor. In France and Flanders, where men kill each other, Jfy Pilgrim zs esteem’d a Friend, a Brother. /n Holland Zoo, ’tis said, as LT am told, My Pilgrim zs with some worth more than Gold. Highlanders azd Wild Irish can agree, My Pilgrim should familiar with them be. *Tis in New England under such advance, Receives there so much loving countenance, As to be trim d, new-cloath’d, and deck’'d with gems That tt may shew tts features and tts limbs, Yet more, so comely doth my Pilgrim wadk, That of him Thousands daily sing and talk. Tf you draw nearer Home, it will appear, My Pilgrim knows no ground of shame or fear ; City and Country will him entertain With, Welcome, Pilgrim, yea, they can’t refrain, From smiling, of my Pilgrim be but by, Or shews his at such a door For Pilgrims ask, and they shall rage the more? ANSWER. fright not thyself, my Book, for such bugbears Are nothing ese but Ground for groundless fears, My Pilgrim’s Book has travell’d Sea and Land, Yet could I never come to understand That it was slighted or turn’d out of door By any Kingdom, were they Rich or Poor. In France and Flanders, where men kill each other, Jfy Pilgrim zs esteem’d a Friend, a Brother. /n Holland Zoo, ’tis said, as LT am told, My Pilgrim zs with some worth more than Gold. Highlanders azd Wild Irish can agree, My Pilgrim should familiar with them be. *Tis in New England under such advance, Receives there so much loving countenance, As to be trim d, new-cloath’d, and deck’'d with gems That tt may shew tts features and tts limbs, Yet more, so comely doth my Pilgrim wadk, That of him Thousands daily sing and talk. Tf you draw nearer Home, it will appear, My Pilgrim knows no ground of shame or fear ; City and Country will him entertain With, Welcome, Pilgrim, yea, they can’t refrain, From smiling, of my Pilgrim be but by, Or shews his head tn any Company. …