Excerpt from The Mariner's Progress: Or Captain Christian's Voyage in the Good Ship "Glad Tidings" To the Promised Land Then I beheld at noon the Queen of the city, even the Scarlet Queen, coming forth from her palace, carrying a cup filled with the blood of the saints, whom she trampled under the hoofs of her horse; pitying them not, as they cried in agony, Lord, how long? In her hand was a sceptre of iron, on her head a crown of gold, whose jewels/ ran blood. The people shouted with a great shout: All hail to the Queen of Heaven and Earth! The rich men and captains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.