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Illustrations to John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*
William Blake
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      1 "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream." I did 29 watercolours for this book
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      2 ""I saw a man cloathed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back." I looked; and saw him open the book; and read therein." My wife Catherine did some of the work on these
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      3 "Then said Evangelist, pointing his finger"
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      4 "The neighbours also came out to see him run; and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and among those that did so, there were two that were resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Obstinate, and the name of the other Pliable"
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      5 Pliable "gave a desperate struggle or two, and got out of the mire on that side of the Slough which was next his own house; so away he went, and Christian saw him no more"
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      6 "_Help._ Then said he, Give me thy hand: so he gave him his hand, and drew him out"
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      7 Worldly Wiseman gives Christian directions to the house of Mr. Legality. "By that hill you must go, and the first house you come at is his"
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      8 "There came also flashes of fire out of the hill, that made Christian afraid that he should be burned"
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      9 "Then Christian fell down at his feet as dead, crying, "Woe is me, for I am undone!" At the sight of which, Evangelist caught him by the right hand, saying, All manner of sin and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men; be not faithless, but believing"
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      10 "Now, over the Gate there was Written, *Knock and it shall be opened unto you*. He knocked therefore, more then once or twice..."; “a little distance from this Gate, there is erected a strong Castle, of which *Beelzebub* is the Captain: from thence both he, and those that are with him shoot Arrows at those that come up to this Gate; if happily they may dye before they can enter in."
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      11 Good-will "I am willing with all my heart, said he, and with that he opened the Gate....Then said Christian, I rejoice and tremble"
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      12 The Interpreter "led him into a very dark room, where there sat a man in an iron cage. Now the man, to look on, seemed very sad: he sat with his eyes looking down to the ground"
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      13 The Interpreter "took Christian by the hand again, and led him into a chamber, where there was one rising out of bed; and as he put on his raiment, he shook and trembled....So he began, and said, This night as I was in my sleep, I dreamed...I thought that the day of judgment was come, and that I was not ready for it"
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      14 "just as Christian came up with the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do, till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. Then was Christian glad and lightsome"
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      15 "three Shining-ones came to him, and saluted him....the second "stripped him of his rags," and clothed him with change of raiment; the third also "set a mark on his forehead," and gave him a roll with a seal upon it"
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      16 "the hill Difficulty....I looked then after Christian, to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees, because of the steepness of the place"
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