TE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, FROM THIS WORLD, ΤΟ THAT WHICH IS TO COME. BY JOHN BUNYAN. With Illustrations by Barnard and Others. NEW YORK AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE 764 BROADWAY 1881 THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I thus begun. And thus it was: I, writing of the way About their journey, and the way to glory, Like sparks that from the coals or fire do fly. Well, so I did; but yet I did not think Neither did I but vacant seasons spend (3) 269495 |