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20 - The Author's Way - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Part two, The author's way of sending forth his second
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  Speaker 1: part of The Pilgrim, Go now my little book to
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  Speaker 1: every place where my first pilgrim has but shown his face.
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  Speaker 1: Call at their door. If any say who's there, then
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  Speaker 1: answer thou Christiana is here. If they bid thee come in,
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  Speaker 1: then enter thou with all thy boys. And then, as
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  Speaker 1: thou knowest, how tell who they are also from whence
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  Speaker 1: they came. Perhaps they'll know them by their looks or name.
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  Speaker 1: But if they should not ask them yet again, if
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  Speaker 1: formerly they did not entertain one Christian a pilgrim, if
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  Speaker 1: they say they did and were delighted in his way,
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  Speaker 1: then let them know that these related were unto him. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: his wife and children are. Tell them that they have
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  Speaker 1: left their house and home are turned. Pilgrims seek a
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  Speaker 1: world to come. That they have met with hardships in
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  Speaker 1: the way that they do meet with troubles night and day,
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  Speaker 1: that they have trod on serpents, fought with devils, have
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  Speaker 1: also overcome, and many evils. YEA, Tell them also of
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  Speaker 1: the next who have of love to pilgrimage, been stout
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  Speaker 1: and brave defenders of that way, And how they still
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  Speaker 1: refuse this world to do their father's will. Go tell
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  Speaker 1: them also of those dainty things that pilgrimage unto the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrim brings. Let them acquainted, be too, how they are
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  Speaker 1: beloved of their king under his care, what goodly mansions
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  Speaker 1: he for them provides. Though they meet with rough winds
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  Speaker 1: and swelling tides, how brave are calm they will enjoy
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  Speaker 1: at last, who to their Lord and by his ways
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  Speaker 1: hold fast, Perhaps with heart hand they will embrace thee
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  Speaker 1: as they did my first thing, and will grace thee
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  Speaker 1: and thy fellows with such cheer and fear as show well.
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  Speaker 1: They of pilgrims lovers are objection one. But how if
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  Speaker 1: they will not believe of me that I am truly thine?
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  Speaker 1: Cause some there be that counterfeit the Pilgrim and his
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  Speaker 1: name seek by disguise to seem the very same, and
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  Speaker 1: by that means have wrought themselves into the hands and
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  Speaker 1: houses of I know not who answer tis true. Some
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  Speaker 1: have of late to counterfeit my pilgrim to their own
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  Speaker 1: my title set yea others half my name and title
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  Speaker 1: two have stitched to their books to make them do.
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  Speaker 1: But yet they, by their features do declare themselves not
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  Speaker 1: mine to be whose air they are. If such thou
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  Speaker 1: meet'st with, then thine only way before them all is
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  Speaker 1: to say out thy say in thine own native language,
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  Speaker 1: which no man now useth nor with ease discemvil can.
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  Speaker 1: If after all they still of you, shall doubt, thinking
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  Speaker 1: that you, like gypsies, go about in naughty wise the
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  Speaker 1: country to defile, or that you seek good people to
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  Speaker 1: begar with things unwarrantable. Send for me, and I will
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  Speaker 1: testify you pilgrims. Be yea, I will testify that only you,
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  Speaker 1: my pilgrims, are, and that alone will do objection too.
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  Speaker 1: But yet perhaps I may inquire for him of those
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  Speaker 1: who wish him damned life and limb? What shall I
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  Speaker 1: do when at such a door for pilgrims ask and
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  Speaker 1: they shall rage them all? Answer fright, not thyself my book,
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  Speaker 1: For such bugbears are nothing else but groundless fears. My
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  Speaker 1: pilgrim's book has traveled sea and land. Yet could I
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  Speaker 1: never come to understand that it was slighted or turned
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  Speaker 1: out of door by any kingdom? Were they rich or poor?
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  Speaker 1: In France and Flanders where men kill each other, my
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims esteemed a friend a brother in Holland, too, tis said,
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  Speaker 1: as I am told, my pilgrim is with some worth
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  Speaker 1: more than gold. Highlanders and wild Irish can agree. My
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  Speaker 1: Pilgrim should familiar with them. Be tis in New England
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  Speaker 1: under such advance receives their so much loving countenance as
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  Speaker 1: to be trimmed, new clothed, and decked with gems, that
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  Speaker 1: it might show its features and its limbs. Yet more so,
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  Speaker 1: comely doth my pilgrim walk that of him thousands daily
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  Speaker 1: sing and talk. If you draw nearer home, it will
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  Speaker 1: appear my pilgrim knows no ground of shame or fear.
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  Speaker 1: City and country will him entertain with welcome pilgrim. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: they can't refrain from smiling if my pilgrim be but
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  Speaker 1: by or shows his head in any company. Brave gallants
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  Speaker 1: do my pilgrim hug and love esteem it much? YEA,
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  Speaker 1: value it above things of greater bulk. YEA, with delight,
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  Speaker 1: say my lark's leg is better than a kite. Young
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  Speaker 1: ladies and young gentlewomen, too, do not small kindness to
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  Speaker 1: my pilgrim. Show they cabinets, their bosoms, and their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: My pilgrim has because he to them imparts his pretty
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  Speaker 1: riddles in such wholesome strains as yield them profit double
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  Speaker 1: to their pains of reading. Yea, I think I may
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  Speaker 1: be bold to say, surprize him far above their gold.
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  Speaker 1: The very children that do walk the street, if they do,
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  Speaker 1: but my holy pilgrim meet salute him, will will wish
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  Speaker 1: him well and say he is the only stripling of
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  Speaker 1: the day. They that have never seen him yet admire
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  Speaker 1: what they have heard of him, and much desire to
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  Speaker 1: have his company, and hear him tell those pilgrim stories
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  Speaker 1: which he knows so well. Yea. Some that did not
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  Speaker 1: love him at first, but called him fool and noddy,
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  Speaker 1: say they must now they have seen and heard him
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  Speaker 1: him command, and to those whom they love, they do
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  Speaker 1: him send. Wherefore, my second part, thou needst not be
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  Speaker 1: afraid to show thy head. None can hurt thee that
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  Speaker 1: wished but well to him that went before, because thou
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  Speaker 1: comest after with a second store of things as good
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  Speaker 1: as rich, as profitable, for young, for old, for staggering,
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  Speaker 1: and for stable objection. Three. But some there be that
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  Speaker 1: say he laughs too loud, and some do say his
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  Speaker 1: head is in a cloud. Some say his words and
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  Speaker 1: stories are so dark they know not how by them
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  Speaker 1: to find his mark. Answer one may, I think say,
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  Speaker 1: both his laughs and cries may well be guessed at
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  Speaker 1: by his watery eyes. Some things are of that nature
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  Speaker 1: as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
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  Speaker 1: When Jacob saw his Rachel with the sheep, he did
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  Speaker 1: at the same time both kiss and weep. Where As
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  Speaker 1: some say a cloud is in his head that doth
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  Speaker 1: but show his wisdoms covered with its own mantles, and
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  Speaker 1: to stir the mind to search well after what it
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  Speaker 1: fain would find. Things that seem to be hid in
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  Speaker 1: words obscure do but the godly mind the more allure
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  Speaker 1: to study what those sayings should contain that speak to
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  Speaker 1: us in such a cloudy strain. I also know a
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  Speaker 1: dark similitude will long the curious fancy more intrude, and
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  Speaker 1: will stick faster in the heart and head. Then things
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  Speaker 1: from similes not borrowed. Wherefore my book let no discouragement
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  Speaker 1: hinder thy travels. Behold thou art sent to friends, not foes,
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  Speaker 1: to friends that will give place to thee thy pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: and thy words embrace. Besides what my first pilgrim left
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  Speaker 1: concealed Thou, my brave second pilgrim, hast revealed what Christian
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  Speaker 1: left locked up, and went his way. Sweet Christiana opens
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  Speaker 1: with her key objection four. But some love not the
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  Speaker 1: method of your first romance. They count it, throw it
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  Speaker 1: away as dust. If I should meet with such, what
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  Speaker 1: should I say? Must I slight them as they slight me?
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  Speaker 1: Or nay? Answer, my Christiana. If with such thou meet
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  Speaker 1: by all means, in all loving wise, then greet, render them,
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  Speaker 1: not reviling for revile. But if they frown, I PRYTHEE
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  Speaker 1: on them smile. Perhaps tis nature or some ill report
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  Speaker 1: has made them thus despise, or thus retort. Some love
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  Speaker 1: no fish, some love no cheese, And some love not
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  Speaker 1: their friends, nor their own house or home. Some start
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  Speaker 1: at pig, slight chicken, love not fowl more than they
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  Speaker 1: love a cuckoo or an owl. Leave such, my Christiana,
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  Speaker 1: to their choice, and seek those who to find THEE
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  Speaker 1: will rejoice by no means, strive, but in most humble
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  Speaker 1: wise present THEE to them in thy pilgrim's guise. Go, then,
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  Speaker 1: my little book, and show to all that entertain and
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  Speaker 1: bid THEE welcome. Shall what thou shalt keep close, shut
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  Speaker 1: up from the rest, and wish what thou shalt show
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  Speaker 1: them may be blest to them for good, and make
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  Speaker 1: them choose to be pilgrims by beat h to far
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  Speaker 1: than THEE or me. Go, then, I say tell all
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  Speaker 1: men who thou art, say, I am Christiana, and my
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  Speaker 1: part is now with my four sons, to tell you
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  Speaker 1: what it is for men to take a pilgrim's lot. Go.
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  Speaker 1: Also tell them who and what they be that now
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  Speaker 1: do go on pilgrimage with thee. Say here is my neighbor, Mercy.
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  Speaker 1: She is one that has long time with me, a
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  Speaker 1: pilgrim gone. Come see her in her virgin face, and
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  Speaker 1: learn TwixT idle ones and pilgrims to discern. Yea, let
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  Speaker 1: young dansels learn of her surprise. The world which is
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  Speaker 1: to come in any wise, when little tripping maidens follow
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  Speaker 1: God and leave old doting sinners to his rod, tis
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  Speaker 1: like those days wherein the young ones cried Hosanna when
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  Speaker 1: the old ones did deride. Next, tell them of old Honest,
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  Speaker 1: whom you found with his white hairs treading the pilgrim's ground. YEA,
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  Speaker 1: tell them how plain hearted this man was, how after
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  Speaker 1: his good Lord he bare the cross, perhaps with some
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  Speaker 1: gray head. This may prevail with Christ to fall in
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  Speaker 1: love and sin bewail. Tell them also how Master Fearing
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  Speaker 1: went on pilgrimage, and how the time he spent in solitariness,
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  Speaker 1: with fears and cries, and how at last he won
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  Speaker 1: the joyful prize. He was a good man, though much
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  Speaker 1: down in spirit, he is a good man, and doth
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  Speaker 1: life inherit. Tell them of Master Feeble Mind, also, who
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  Speaker 1: not before but still behind would go. Show them also
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  Speaker 1: how he had like been slain, and how one great
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  Speaker 1: heart did his life regain. This man was true of heart,
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  Speaker 1: though weak in grace, one might true godlyess read in
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  Speaker 1: his face. Then tell them of Master ready to halt
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  Speaker 1: a man with crutches, but much without fault. Tell them
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  Speaker 1: how Master feeble Mind and he did love and in
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  Speaker 1: opinion much agree, And let all know, though weakness was
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  Speaker 1: their chance, yet sometimes one could sing the other dance
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  Speaker 1: forget not Master Valiant, for the truth, that man of courage,
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  Speaker 1: though a very youth, Tell every one his spirit was
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  Speaker 1: so stout no man could ever make him face about.
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  Speaker 1: And how great heart and he could not forbear and
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  Speaker 1: pull down doubting castle, slay despair, overlook not master despondency,
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  Speaker 1: nor much afraid his daughter. Though they lie under such
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  Speaker 1: mantles as may make them look with some as if
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  Speaker 1: their God had them forsook. They softly went, but sure
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  Speaker 1: and at the end found that the Lord of pilgrims
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  Speaker 1: was their friend. When thou hast told the world of
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  Speaker 1: all these things. Then turn about my book and touch
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  Speaker 1: these strings, which, if but touched, will such music make
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  Speaker 1: thou make a cripple dance, a giant quake. Those riddles
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  Speaker 1: that lie couched within thy breast freely propound expound, And
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of thy mysterious lines, let them remain
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  Speaker 1: for those whose nimble fancies shall then gain. Now, may
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  Speaker 1: this little book a blessing be to those who love
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  Speaker 1: this little book and me, And may its buyer have
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  Speaker 1: no cause to say his money is but lost or
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  Speaker 1: thrown away. Ye, may this second pilgrim yield that fruit
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  Speaker 1: as may with each good pilgrim's fancy suit. And may
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  Speaker 1: it some persuade that go astray to turn their feet
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  Speaker 1: and heart to the right way. Is the hearty prayer
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  Speaker 1: of the author John Bunyan, and part two, The Author's
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  Speaker 1: Way