. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . nd wages, be content to go back;what our country will afford I do here promise to give thee. Chr. But I have let myself to another, even to the King ofprinces, and how can I with fairness go back with thee ? Apol. Thou hast done in this according to the proverb,changed a bad for a worse ; but it is ordinaiy for those thathave professed themselves his servants, after a while to givehim the slip, and return again to me ; do thou so too, and allshall be well. Chr. I have given him my fai
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . nd wages, be content to go back;what our country will afford I do here promise to give thee. Chr. But I have let myself to another, even to the King ofprinces, and how can I with fairness go back with thee ? Apol. Thou hast done in this according to the proverb,changed a bad for a worse ; but it is ordinaiy for those thathave professed themselves his servants, after a while to givehim the slip, and return again to me ; do thou so too, and allshall be well. Chr. I have given him my faith, and sworn my allegianceto him ; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hangedas a traitor ? Apol. Thou didst the same to me ; and yet I am willing topass by all, if now thou wilt yet turn again and go back. Chr. What I promised thee was in my non-age ; and besides,I count that the Prince under whose banner now I stand isable to absolve me; yea, and to pardon also what I did as tomy compliance with thee ; and besides, O thou destroyingApollyon, to speak truth, I like his service, his wages, his. servants, Lis government, his company and country, better thanthine; and therefore leave off to persuade me farther: I amhis servant, and I will follow him. Apol. Consider again, when thou art in cold blood, whatthou art like to meet with in the way that thou goest. Thouknowest that for the most part, his servants come to anill end, because they are transgressors against me and myways. How many of them have been put to shameful deaths !and besides, thou countest his service better than mine, whereashe never came yet from the place where he is, to deliver anythat served him out of our hands ; but as for me, how manytimes, as all the world very well knows, have I delivered,either by power or fraud, those that have faithfully servedme, from him and his, though taken by them, and so I willdeliver thee. Che. His forbearing at present to deliver them, is on pur-pose to try their lo
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