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