Notes:
    1.

    Legends:

    sidenotes = Sidenotes
         [Bible reference] = Bible references

    2.

    Sections are
          numbered for future reference.

    These sections
          have been chosen arbitrarily,
           i.e.,
         {1},
           {2}

 
  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 The book
             that I already am about.

    Well,
           so I did;
        but yet
             I did not
                  think To
                      shew 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.

   {2}

    Neither did I
         but vacant seasons
              spend In this my scribble;
        nor did
             I intend But
                   to divert myself
                 in doing
                       this From worser thoughts
                  which make me do amiss.

    Thus,
           I set pen
              to paper with delight,
         And quickly
            had my thoughts
                   in black and white.

    For,
           having now my method
               by the end,
         Still as I pulled,
           it came;
        and so
             I penned It down:
         until it
            came at last to be,
           For length and breadth,
         the bigness which you see.

    Well,
           when I
            had thus
                  put mine ends together,
         I shewed them others,
           that I might see
             whether They would condemn them,
         or them justify:
        And some said,
           Let them live;
        some,
           Let them die;
        Some said,
           JOHN,
         print it;
        others said,
           Not so;
        Some said,
           It might do good;
        others said,
           No.

    Now was
         I in a strait,
           and did not see Which
            was the best thing
                  to be done by me:
        At last I thought,
           Since you are thus divided,
         I print it will,
           and so the case decided.

   {3}

    For,
           thought I,
         some,
           I see,
         would have it done,
           Though others in
             that channel do not run:
        To prove,
           then,
         who advised for the best,
           Thus I thought
               fit to put it
                   to the test.

    I further thought,
           if now
             I did deny Those
               that would have it,
         thus to gratify.

    I did not know
         but hinder them
             I might Of
               that which
                would to them