on this side the other world get within you; and ' above all, look well to your own hearts, and to the lusts thereof; for they are deceitful above all 'things, and desperately wicked: set your faces like a flint, you have all power on Heaven and Earth on your side.

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• Chr. Then *Christian thanked him for his exhorta-thank him tion, but told him withal, that they would have him for his exspeak farther to them for their help, the rest of the way; and the rather, for that they well knew that he was a Prophet, and could tell them of things that might happen unto them; and also how they might ' resist and overcome them. To which request Faithful also consented. So Evangelist began as fol'loweth.

'dicteth what

He pretroubles they with in Va and encour

shall meet

'nity-Fair,

'ageth them 'to stedfast'ness.

Evan. My Sons, you have heard in the words ' of the truth of the Gospel, that you must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of 'Heaven. And again, that in every City, bonds and afflictions abide in you; and therefore you I cannot expect that you should go long on your Pilgrimage without them, in some sort or other. 'You have found something of the truth of these 'testimonies upon you already, and more will immediately follow for now, as you see, you are almost out of this Wilderness, and therefore you ' will soon come into a Town that you will by and by see before you: and in that Town you will be hardly beset with enemies, who will strain hard 'but they will kill you: and be you sure that one 'or both of you must seal the testimony 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 pain perhaps great, he will yet have the better of his fellow; have the 'not only because he will be arrived at the Cœles-brother.

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'tial City soonest, but because he will escape many 'miseries that the other will meet with in the rest of his Journey. But when you are come to the Town, and shall find fulfilled what I have here related, then remember your friend, and quit your selves like men; and commit the keeping of your souls to your God in well-doing,' as 'unto a faithful Creator.'

Then I saw in my Dream, that when they were got out of the Wilderness, they presently saw 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 tis kept, is lighter then Vanity; and also, because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity.

This Fair is no new erected business, but a thing of Ancient standing; I will shew you the original of it.

Almost five thousand years agone, there were Pilgrims walking to the Coelestial City, as these two honest persons 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 set up a Fair; a Fair wherein should be sold of all sorts of Vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this Fair are all such Merchandize sold, As Houses, Lands, Trades, Places, Honours, Preferments, Titles, Countreys, Kingdoms, Lusts, Pleasures and Delights of all sorts, as Whores, Bauds, Wives, Husbands, Children, Masters, Servants, Lives, Blood, Bodies, Souls, Silver, Gold, Pearls, precious Stones, and what not.

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And moreover, at this Fair there is at all times to be seen Juglings, Cheats, Games, Plays, Fools, Apes, Knaves, and Rogues, and that of all sorts.

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Here are to be seen too,' and that for nothing, Thefts, Murders, Adultries, False-swearers, and that of a blood-red colour.

And as in other fairs of less moment, there are 1the several Rows and Streets, under their proper names, where such and such Wares are vended: So here likewise, you have the proper Places, Rows, Streets, (viz. Countreys and Kingdoms,) where the Wares of this Fair are soonest to be found: Here is The Streets the Brittain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts of Vanities are to be sold. But as in other fairs, some one Commodity is as the chief of all the fair, so the Ware of Rome and her Merchandize is greatly promoted in this fair: Only our English Nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat.

1 Cor. 5. 10.

Christ went

through this fair.

3 Mat. 4. 8.

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Now, as I said, the way to the Cœlestial City lyes just thorow this Town, where this lusty Fair is kept; and he that will go to the City, and yet not go thorow this Town, must needs go out of the World. The Prince of Princes himself, when here, went through this Town to his own Countrey, and that Luke 4, 5, 6, upon a Fair-day too: Yea, and as I think, it was Beelzebub the chief Lord of this Fair, that invited him to buy of his Vanities; yea, would have made him Lord of the Fair, would he but have done him Reverence as he went thorow the Town. Yea, because he was such 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

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nothing in

might, if possible, allure that Blessed One, to cheapen and buy some of his Vanities. But he had christ bought no mind to the Merchandize, and therefore left the this fair Town, without laying out so much as one Farthing upon these Vanities. This Fair therefore is an Ancient thing, of long standing, and a very great Fair.

enter the fair.

Now these Pilgrims, as I said, must needs go The Pilgrims thorow this fair: Well, so they did; but behold, even as they entred into the fair, all the people in the fair were moved, and the Town it self as it were The fair in a in a Hubbub about them; and that for several rea- them. sons: For,

hubbub about

cause of the

First, The Pilgrims were cloathed with such kind The Arst of Raiment as was diverse from the Raiment of any hubbub that Traded in that fair. The people therefore of the fair made a great gazing upon them: Some 1 Cor. 2. 7, 8. said they were Fools, some they were Bedlams, and some they are Outlandish-men.

the hubbub.

Secondly, And as they wondred at their Appa- 2nd Cause of rel, so they did likewise at their Speech, for few could understand what they said; they naturally spoke the Language of Canaan, but they that kept the fair, were the men of this World: So that from one end of the fair to the other, they seemed Barbarians each to the other.

cause of the

Thirdly, But that which did not a little amuse Third the Merchandizers, was, that these Pilgrims set hubbub. very light by all their Wares, they cared not, so much as to look upon them: and if they called upon them to buy, they would put their fingers in their ears, and cry, Turn away mine eyes from be- Phil. 3. 19,

Ps. 119. 37.

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