Tacked post 4
Done with Apple break
Ready to cut gutter facia again with circular saw
Denied did I say? No, I have leave,
(Example too, and that from them that have
God better pleased by their words or ways,
Than any man that breathes nowadays),
Thus to express my mind, thus to declare
Things unto you that more excellent are.
2. I find that men, as high as trees, will write
Dialogue-wise; yet no man does them slight
For writing so; indeed if they abuse
Truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use
To that intent; but yet let truth be free
To make her sallies [charges] upon you and me,
Which way it pleases God. For who knows how,
Better than he that taught us first to plough,
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10 II Tim. 1:13.
11 I Tim. 4:7.
12 I Tim. 6:11. Bunyan’s objectors were most likely pastors.
THE P ILGRIM’ S P ROGRESS 7
To guide our mind and pens for his design?
And he makes base things usher in divine.
3. I find that holy writ in many places
Has likeness with this method, where the cases
Do call for one thing to set forth another;
Use it I may then, and yet nothing smother
Truth’s golden beams; no, by this method may
Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.
And now before I do put up my pen,
I’ll show the profit of my book, and then
Commit both you and it unto that hand
That pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones
stand.
This book it chalks [marks] out before your eyes,
The man that seeks the everlasting prize;13
It shows you whence he comes, where he goes,
What he leaves undone, also what he does;
It also shows you how he runs and runs,
Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
It shows too, who sets out for life amain
[vigorously],
As if the lasting crown they would attain;
Here also you may see the reason why
They lose their labor, and like fools do die.
This book will make a traveler of you,
If by its counsel you its rules will do;
It will direct you to the Holy Land,
If you will its directions understand;
Yes, it will make the slothful active be,
The blind also delightful things to see.
Are you for something rare, and profitable?
Would you see a truth within a fable?
Are you forgetful? Would you remember
From New Year’s day to the last of December?
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13 I Cor. 9:24; Phil. 3:14.
JOHN B UNYAN8
Then read my fancies, they will stick like burs,
And may be to the helpless, comforters.
This book is writ in such a dialect
As may the minds of listless men affect:
It seems a novelty, and yet contains
Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.
Would you divert yourself from melancholy?
Would you be pleasant, yet be far from folly?
Would you read riddles and their explanation?
Or else be drowned in your contemplation?
Do you love picking meat? Or would you view
A man in the clouds, and hear him speak to you?
Would you be in a dream, and yet not sleep?14
Or would you in a moment laugh and weep?
Would you lose yourself, and catch no harm?
And find yourself again without a charm?
Would read yourself, and read you know not what
And yet know whether you are blest or not,
By reading the same lines? Oh then come hither,
And lay my book, your head and heart together.
JOHN BUNYAN
THE P ILGRIM’S PROGRESS
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK
WHEN at first I took my pen in hand,
To write this way, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a style; no, I had undertook
To make another, which when almost done,1
Before I was aware, I this begun.
And so it was: I writing of the way
And race of saints in this our gospel day,
Fell suddenly into an allegory 2
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.
Then no, I thought since if you breed so fast,
I’ll put you by yourself, 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 show to all the world my pen and ink
In such a style; I only thought to make
I knew not what, nor did I undertake
Thereby to please my neighbor; no, not I,
I did it my own self to gratify.
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1 Probably The Heavenly Footman based on I Corinthians 9:24.
2 Bunyan also refers to his allegorical style, in this and his concluding
poem, as similitude, metaphor, parable, figure, type, fable, and
shadow.
JOHN B UNYAN2
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 [tail],
Still as I pulled it came, 3 and so I penned
It down, until it came at last to be
For length and breadth the bigness that you see.
Well, when I had thus put my ends together,
I showed 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 straight [plight], and did not see
Which was the best thing to be done by me;
At last I thought, since you are thus divided,
I will print it, and so the case decided.
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 be great delight.
For those that were not for its coming forth,
I said to them, “Offend you I am loath;
Yet since your brethren pleased with it be.
Forbear to judge till you do further see.”
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3 Bunyan is probably alluding to a woman pulling thread from a
spinning-wheel.
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If that you will not read, let it alone;
Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone:
Yes, that I might them better palliate,
I did too with them thus expostulate.
May I not write in such a style as this?
In such a method too, and yet not miss
Mine end, your good? Why may it not be done?
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none;
Yes, dark or bright, if they their silver drops
Cause by descent, the earth to yielding crops,
Give praise to both, and carpeth [censure] not at
either,
But treasure up the fruit they yield together;
Yes, so combine them both, that in her fruit
None can distinguish this from that, they suit
Her well when hungry; but if she be full
She spews out both, and makes their blessings null.
You see the ways the fisherman does take
To catch the fish, what engines he does make?
Behold! how he engages all his wits,
Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks and nets.
Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line,
Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine;
They must be groped for, and be tickled too,
Or they will not be caught, whate’er you do.4
How does the fowler seek to catch his game?
By varied means, all which one cannot name.
His gun, his nets, his lime-twigs, 5 light and bell;
He creeps, he goes, he stands; yes, who can tell
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Cut gutter corner supports
Cut roof panel to length
Resized 2nd 20-footer
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Cleaner
Paint rollers
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Brandon (young) just got married and pounding Don's door to work
Of all his postures? Yet there’s none of these
Will make him master of what fowls he please.
Yes, he must pipe, and whistle to catch this;
Yet if he does so, that bird he will miss.
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4 Matt. 4:19.
5 Twigs smeared with sticky birdlime used to snare small birds.
JOHN B UNYAN4
If that a pearl may in a toad’s head dwell, 6
And may be found too, in an oyster-shell;
If things that promise nothing, do contain
What better is than gold; who will disdain
(That have an inkling of it) there to look,
That they may find it? Now my little book,
(Though void of all those paintings that may make
It with this or the other man to take,)
Is not without those things that do excel,
What do in brave but empty notions dwell.
“Well, yet I am not fully satisfied, that
This your book will stand when soundly tried.”
Why, what’s the matter? “It is dark [obscure]”, 7 What
though?
“But it is feigned [fiction].” What if that is so?
Some men by words of fiction, dark as mine,
Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine.
“But they lack solidness.” Speak man your mind;
“They drowned the weak; metaphors make us blind.”
Solidity, indeed becomes the pen
Of him that writes things divine to men;
But must I needs lack solidness, because
By metaphors I speak; were not God’s laws,
His gospel laws in olden time held forth
By types, shadows and metaphors? Yet loath
Will any sober man be to find fault
With them, lest he be found for to assault
The highest wisdom. No, he rather stoops,
And seeks to find out what by pins and loops,
By calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams,
By birds and herbs, and by the blood of lambs;
God speaks to him, and happy is he
That finds the light and grace that in them be.
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6 An allusion to the mythical belief that certain precious gems were
formed in the head of a toad.
7 Ps. 78:2.
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Be not too forward therefore to conclude
That I lack solidness, that I am rude [superficial];
All things solid in show not solid be;
All things in parables despise not we,
Lest things more hurtful lightly we receive,
And things that good are, of our souls bereave.
My dark and cloudy words they do but hold
The truth, as cabinets enclose the gold.
The prophets used much by metaphors
To set forth truth; yes, who so considers
Christ, his Apostles too, shall plainly see,
That truths to this day in such garments be.
Am I afraid to say that holy writ,
Which for its style and phrase puts down [quells]
all wit,
Is everywhere so full of all these things,
Dark figures, allegories? Yet there springs
From that same book that luster, and those rays
Of light that turns our darkest nights to days.
Come, let my carper [critic] to his life now look,
And find there darker lines than in my book
He finds any. Yes, and let him know
That in his best things there are worse lines too.
May we but stand before impartial men,
To his poor one, I dare adventure ten,
That they will take my meaning in these lines
Far better than his lies in silver shrines. 8
Come, truth, although in swaddling-clothes,9 I find
Informs the judgment, rectifies the mind,
Pleases the understanding, makes the will
Submit; the memory too it does fill
With what our imagination does please;
Likewise, it tends our troubles to appease.
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8 Acts 19:24.
9 Infant or allegorical dress.
JOHN B UNYAN6
Sound words I know Timothy is to use, 10
And old wives’ fables he is to refuse;11
But yet grave Paul him nowhere does forbid
The use of parables; in which lay hid
That gold, those pearls, and precious stones that were
Worth digging for, and that with greatest care.
Let me add one more word, O man of God! 12
Are you offended? Do you wish I had
Put forth my matter in another dress,
Or that I had in things been more express?
Three things let me propound, then I submit
To those that are my betters, as is fit.
1. I find not that I am denied the use
Of this my method, so I no abuse
Put on the words, things, readers, or be rude
In handling figure, or similitude,
In application; but, all that I may,
Seek the advance of truth this or that way.
