Use my With those, which, if a Christian, thou wilt see key Not small, but things of greatest moment be.

Nor do thou go to work without my key
(In mysteries men soon do lose their way);
And also turn it right, if thou wouldst know
My riddle, and wouldst with my heifer plough:
It lies there in the window.
My next may be to ring thy

Fare thee well, passing-bell.

JOHN BUNYAN.

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE

READER

SOME say the "Pilgrim's Progress " is not mine, The Insinuating as if I would shine

In name and fame by the worth of another,

Like some made rich by robbing of their brother.
Or that so fond I am of being sire,

I'll father bastards; or, if need require,
I'll tell a lie in print to get applause.

I scorn it: John such dirt-heap never was,
Since God converted him. Let this suffice
To show why I my "Pilgrim" patronize.

It came from mine own heart, so to my head,
And thence into my fingers trickled;
Then to my pen, from whence immediately
On paper I did dribble it daintily.

Manner and matter, too, was all mine own;
Nor was it unto any mortal known
Till I had done it; nor did any then

By books, by wits, by tongues, or hand, or pen,
Add five words to it, or wrote half a line
Thereof the whole and every whit is mine.
Also for THIS, thine eye is now upon,
The matter in this manner came from none
But the same heart, and head, fingers, and pen,
As did the other. Witness all good men,

For none in all the world, without a lie,

author

asserts

himself

8 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER His Can say that this is mine, excepting I.

anagram

I write not this of any ostentation,
Nor 'cause I seek of men their commendation
I do it to keep them from such surmise
As tempt them will my name to scandalize.
Witness my name, if anagram'd to thee,
The letters make-"Nu hony in a B."

JOHN BUNYAN.

A RELATION

OF

THE HOLY WAR, etc.

continent

IN my travels, as I walked through many regions The and countries, it was my chance to happen into famous that famous continent of Universe. A very large and spacious country it is: it lieth between the two poles, and just amidst the four points of the heavens. It is a place well watered, and richly adorned with hills and valleys, bravely situate, and for the most part, at least where I was, very fruitful, also well peopled, and a very sweet

air.

The people are not all of one complexion, nor yet of one language, mode, or way of religion, but differ as much as ('tis said) do the planets themselves. Some are right, and some are wrong, even as it happeneth to be in lesser regions.

In this country, as I said, it was my lot to travel; and there travel I did, and that so long even till I learned much of their mother tongue, together with the customs and manners of them among whom I was. And, to speak truth, I was much delighted to see and hear many things which I saw and heard among them; yea, I had, to be sure, even lived and died a native among them (so was I taken with them and their doings), had not my master sent for me home to his house,

The fair there to do business for him, and to oversee busitown of ness done. Mansoul

Now, there is in this gallant country of Universe a fair and delicate town, a corporation, called Mansoul; a town for its building so curious, for its situation so commodious, for its privileges so advantageous (I mean with reference to its original), that I may say of it, as was said before of the continent in which it is placed, There is not its equal under the whole heaven.

As to the situation of this town, it lieth just between the two worlds; and the first founder and builder of it, so far as by the best and most authentic records I can gather, was one Shaddai ; 1 and he built it for his own delight. He made it the mirror and glory of all that he made, even the top-piece, beyond anything else that he did in that country. Yea, so goodly a town was Mansoul when first built, that it is said by some, the gods, at the setting up thereof, came down to see it and sang for joy. And as he made it goodly to behold, so also mighty to have dominion over all the country round about. Yea, all were commanded to acknowledge Mansoul for their metropolitan, all were enjoined to do homage to it. Ay, the town itself had positive commission and power from her King to demand service of all, and also to subdue any that anyways denied to do it.

There was reared up in the midst of this town a most famous and stately palace; for strength, it might be called a castle; for pleasantness, a paradise; for largeness, a place so copious as to contain all the world. This palace the King Shaddai intended but for himself alone, and not 1 Gen. i. 26.