The Pilgrim’s Progress (Oxford World’s Classics) by John Bunyan

Author:John Bunyan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1966-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE CONCLUSION

NOW Reader, I have told my Dream to thee;

See if thou canst Interpret it to me;

Or to thy self, or Neighbour: but take heed

Of mis-interpreting: for that, instead

Of doing good, will but thy self abuse:

By mis-interpreting evil insues.

Take heed also, that thou be not extream,

In playing with the out-side of my Dream:

Nor let my figure, or similitude,

Put thee into a laughter or a feud;

Leave this for Boys and Fools; but as for thee,

Do thou the substance of my matter see.

Put by the Curtains, look within my Vail;

Turn up my Metaphors and do not fail:

There, if thou seekest them, such things to find,

As will be helpful to an honest mind.

What of my dross thou findest there, be bold

To throw away, but yet preserve the Gold.

What if my Gold be wrapped up in Ore?

None throws away the Apple for the Core:

But if thou shalt cast all away as vain,

I know not but ’twill make me Dream again.

THE END

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