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Title: The Pilgrim's Progress Author: Bunyan This eBook was produced by SeeWei Toh (seewei@orion.cc.andrews.edu) Some editing by Alan R. Light (alight@mercury.interpath.net) Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K. Posted to Wiretap in June 1993, as pilgrim.txt. [Transcribed by C.E.K. from an uncopyrighted 1942 edition.] Notes: 1. Legends: = Sidenotes [Bible reference] = Bible references 2. Sections are numbered for future reference. These sections have been chosen arbitrarily, i.e., {1}, {2} 3. This is `Part 1', but is a complete work in itself. Bunyan wrote a sequel (`Part 2') some years after the first part, hence the `Parts'. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From This World To That Which Is To Come Part One DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM BY JOHN BUNYAN The Author's Apology for his Book {1} 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 this 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 of 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 | ||||
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