THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
Part Second
SOME time since, to tell you my dream that I had of Christian the Pilgrim, and of his. dangerous journey towards the Celestial Country, was pleasant to me and profitable to you. I told you then, also, what I saw concerning his wife and children, and hew unwilling; they were to go with him on pilgrimage—insomuch that he was forced to go on his progress without them; for he durst not run danger of that destruction which he feared would come by staying with them in the City at Destruction: wherefore, I then showed you, he left them and departed.
Now it hath so happened, through the multiplicity of business, that I have been much hindered and kept hack from my wonted travels into those parts where he went, and so could not, till now, obtain an opportunity to further inquiry after those whom he left behind, that I might give you an account of them. But having had some concerns that way of late, I went down again thitherward. New, having taken up my lodgings in a wood about a mile off the place, as I slept I dreamed again.
And as I was in my dream, behold, an aged gentleman came by where I lay; and because he was to go some part of the way that I was travelling, methought I got up and
