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A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I
CHAPTER I.
The author dies, meets with Mercury, and is by him conducted to the
stage which sets out for the other world
CHAPTER II.
In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerning spirits,
and then the passengers relate their several deaths .
CHAPTER III.
The adventures we met with in the City of Diseases
CHAPTER IV.
Discourses on the road, and a description of the palace of Death
CHAPTER V.
The travelers proceed on their journey, and meet several spirits who are
coming into the flesh
CHAPTER VI.
An account of the wheel of fortune, with a method of preparing a spirit
for this world
CHAPTER VII.
The proceedings of judge Minos at the gate of Elysium

CHAPTER VIII.
The adventures which the author met on his first entrance into Elysium
CHAPTER IX.
More adventures in Elysium
CHAPTER X.
The author is surprised at meeting Julian the apostate in Elysium; but is
satisfied by him by what means he procured his entrance there. Julian
relates his adventures in the character of a slave
CHAPTER XI.
In which Julian relates his adventures in the character of an avaricious
Jew
CHAPTER XII.
What happened to Julian in the characters of a general, an heir, a
carpenter, and a beau
CHAPTER XIII.
Julian passes into a fop
CHAPTER XIV.
Adventures in the person of a monk
CHAPTER XV.
Julian passes into the character of a fiddler
CHAPTER XVI.

The history of the wise man
CHAPTER XVII.
Julian enters into the person of a king
CHAPTER XVIII.
Julian passes into a fool
CHAPTER XIX.
Julian appears in the character of a beggar
CHAPTER XX.
Julian performs the part of a statesman
CHAPTER XXI.
Julian's adventures in the post of a soldier
CHAPTER XXII.
What happened to Julian in the person of a tailor
CHAPTER XXIII.
The life of alderman Julian
CHAPTER XXIV.
Julian recounts what happened to him while he was a poet
CHAPTER XXV.
Julian performs the parts of a knight and a dancing-master

BOOK XIX
CHAPTER VII.
Wherein Anna Boleyn relates the history of her life

A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT

INTRODUCTION
Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some
very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the
other world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion of many
(though I think too much inclining to superstition); or lastly, whether,
as infinitely the greatest part imagine, they were really the production
of some choice inhabitant of New Bethlehem, is not necessary nor easy
to determine. It will be abundantly sufficient if I give the reader an
account by what means they came into my possession. Mr. Robert
Powney, stationer, who dwells opposite to Catherine-street in the
Strand, a very honest man and of great gravity of countenance; who,
among other excellent stationery commodities, is particularly eminent
for his pens, which I am abundantly bound to acknowledge, as I owe to
their peculiar goodness that my manuscripts have by any means been
legible: this gentleman, I say, furnished me some time since with a
bundle of those pens, wrapped up with great care and caution, in a very
large sheet of paper full of characters, written as it seemed in a very bad
hand. Now, I have