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THE

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

AMBORLIAD

PRINTED BY THOMAS HOLMAN,

Cor. Centre & White Sts.,

NEW YORK.

CALIFORNIA

PR3330

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1881

MAIN

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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
And race of saints, in this our gospel day,
Fell suddenly into an allegory

About their journey, and the way to glory,
In more than twenty things which I set down.
This done, I twenty more had in my crown;
And they again began to multiply,

Like sparks that from the coals or fire do fly.
Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast,
I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last
Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out
The book that I already am about.

Well, so I did; but yet I did not think
To show to all the world my pen and ink
In such a mode; I only thought to make
I knew not what: nor did I undertake
Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I;
I did it my own self to gratify.

Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble; nor did I intend

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