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 (Page 15) (The Pilgrim's Progress.) 
 
BUNYAN'S 
 
 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS 
 
 IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 
 
 By SAMUEL PHILLIPS DAY, 
 
 AUTHOR OF "THE RARE ROMANCE OF REYNARD THE FOX," IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE, 
 
 ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 A. L. BURT COMPANY, 
 PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. 
 
GOPYBXGHT, 1895, B? 
 
 THE CASSELL PUBLISHING 00. 
 £j& right* reserved. 
 
THE 
 
 PILGKIM'S PKOGKESS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE DEN AND THE DEEAM. 
 
 As I went through the wilds of this world, I came to a 
 place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place 
 to sleep ; and as I slept I dreamt a dream ; and lo, I saw a 
 man clad in rags, with a book in his hand, and a great 
 load on his back ! I saw him read in the book, and as he 
 read, he wept and shook. 
 
 In this plight, then, he went home, and kept calm as 
 long as he could, that his wife and bairns should not see 
 his grief; but he could not long hold his speech, for that 
 his woe grew more hard to bear. " Oh, my dear wife," 
 said he, " and you, the bairns of my heart, I am quite lost, 
 for a load lies hard on me. More than this, I am told that 
 this our town will be burnt with fire from the skies, and 
 you, my sweet babes, shall come to grief, save some way 
 can be found to get clear of harm." At this his kin were 
 in sore fear ; for that they had just cause to dread some 
 dire ill had got hold of his head. So, when morn was 
 come, they would know how he did : and he told them, 
 
6 The Pilgrims Progress. 
 
 " Worse and worse." He spoke to them once more, but 
 they gave no heed to his words. Hence he went to his 
 room to pray for them, and to ease his grief. He would, 
 too, take long walks in the fields, and read and pray at 
 times : and thus for some days he spent his time. 
 
 Now I saw on a time, when he took a stray walk in the 
 fields, that he was bent on his book and in deep grief of 
 mind ; and as he read he burst out, " What shall I do 1 " 
 
 I saw, too, that his eyes went this way and that way, as 
 if he would run : yet he could not tell which way to go. 
 I then saw a man whose name was Evangelist come to him 
 and ask, " Why dost thou cry ? " Quoth he, " Sir, I see 
 by the book in my hand that death is my doom, and that 
 1 am then to meet my Judge : and I find that I do not will 
 to do the first, while I dread the last." Then said Evan- 
 gelist, " Why not will to die, since this life is full of ills?" 
 The man said, " The cause is I fear that this load that is on 
 my back will sink me more low than the grave, and I shall 
 go down to hell." 
 
 Then said Evangelist, " If this be thy state, why dost 
 thou stand still % " Said he, "It is for that I know not 
 where to go." Then he gave him a roll of smooth skin, 
 on which were writ the plain words, " Flee from the wrath 
 to come." The man read it, and said, " To what place 
 must I flee?" Then said Evangelist, " Do you see yon 
 small gate 1 " The man said, " I think I do." Then said 
 his guide, " Go up at once to it ; at which, when thou dost 
 knock, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do." 
 
 So I saw in my dream that the man did run. Now he had 
 not run far from his own door, but his wife and bairns saw it, 
 and in a loud voice they strove to get him to come back ; but 
 the man put the tips of his thumbs in his ears and ran on. 
 
The Den and the Dream, f 
 
 His friends also came out, and some bade him haste 
 back. Of those who did so, there were two that sought to 
 fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Ob- 
 stinate ; and the name of the next, Pliable. Now by this 
 time the man was a good way off; but they went in ques 
 of him, and in a short time came up with him. Then saiu 
 
 OBSTINATE GOES BACK TO THE CITY OP DESTRUCTION. 
 
 he, " Friends, for what are ye come % " Quoth they, " Tc 
 urge you to go back with us " : but he said, " That can by 
 no means be. You dwell in the City of Destruction : and 
 when you die there, you will sink down to a place that 
 burns with fire. Take heed, good friends, and go with me." 
 " What ! " said Obstinate, " and leave our friends and 
 all that brings us joy and ease 1 " 
 
8 The PilgriirUs Progress. 
 
 " Yes," said Christian (for that was his name) ; " I seek 
 a life that fades not. Read it so, if you will, in my book." 
 
 " Tush! " said Obstinate, " I heed not your book : will 
 you go back with us or no 'I " 
 
 " No, not I," said Christian. 
 
 Obs. — " Come then, friend Pliable, let us go home." 
 
 Then said Pliable, " The things he looks for are of more 
 worth than ours. My heart urges me to go with him." 
 
 Obs.— u What ! Be led by me and go back." 
 
 Chr. — " Come with me, friend Pliable ; there are such 
 things to be had which I spoke of, and much more bliss. 
 If you heed not what I say, read here in this book." 
 
 " Well, friend Obstinate," said Pliable, " I mean to go 
 with this good man, and to cast in my lot with him. But, 
 my good mate, do you know the way to this place '? " 
 
 Chr. — " I am told by a man, whose name is Evangelist, 
 to speed me to a small gate that is in front of us, where 
 we shall be put in the right way." 
 
 " And I will go back to my place," said Obstinate. " I 
 will not make one of such flat fools." 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND. 
 
 Now Christian and Pliable spoke as they did walk oil 
 the plain ; and this was what they said : 
 
 Chr. — " Come, friend Pliable. Tarn glad you have been 
 led to go with me. Had but Obstinate felt what I have 
 felt, he would not have set his back on us." 
 
 Pli. — " And do you think that your book is true 1 " 
 
 Chr. — " Yes : there is a realm where we shall not taste 
 of death, that we may dwell in it for aye." 
 
The Slough of Despond. 9 
 
 Pli. — " This is right good ; and what else 1 " 
 
 Ghr. — " There we shall not weep or grieve more ; for 
 he that owns the place will wipe all tears from our eyes." 
 
 Pli. — " To hear this doth fill one's heart with joy. But 
 are these things to form our bliss % How shall we get to 
 share in them % " 
 
 Chr. — " The Lord hath set down that in this book, the 
 pith of which is, if we in truth seek to have it, he will, of 
 his free grace, grant it to us." 
 
 Pli. — " Well, my good friend, glad am I to hear of these 
 things. Come on, let us mend our pace." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that just as they had put an 
 end to this talk they drew up nigh to a deep slough that 
 was in the midst of the plain ; and as they did not heed it, 
 both fell swap in the bog. The name of the slough was 
 Despond. 
 
 Then said Pliable, " Ah, friend Christian, where are you 
 now 1 " / 
 
 " In sooth," said Christian, " I do not know." 
 
 At this Pliable said in sharp tones, " Is this the bliss you. 
 have told me all this while of? If we have such ill speed 
 as we first set out, what may we not look for ere the time 
 we get to the end of our road ? May I once get out with 
 my life, you shall hold the brave land for me." And with 
 that he gave a bold stride or two, and got out of the mire 
 on that side of the slough which was next his own house. 
 So off he went, and Christian saw him no more. 
 
 Hence Christian was left to sprawl in the Slough of 
 Despond. But I saw in my dream that a man came to 
 him whose name was Help, and did ask him what he did 
 there. 
 
 " Sir," said Christian, " I was bade go this way by a man 
 
10 TIw Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 known as Evangelist, who sent me in like way to yon gate, 
 that I might scape the wrath to come." 
 
 So he gave him his hand, and drew him out, and set him 
 on sound ground, and let him go on his way. 
 
 Then I went to him that did pluck him out, and said,, 
 " Sir, whence is it that this plat is not made whole, that 
 those who pass this way may run no risk % " 
 
 And he said to me, " This slough is such a place that 
 none can mend it. It goes by the name of the Slough of 
 Despond ; for still, as he who sins is wrought up to a sense 
 of his lost state, there spring forth in his soul fears, and 
 doubts, and dark thoughts that scare, which all of them 
 form in a heap and fix in this place ; and this is the cause 
 why the road is so bad. True, there are, by the help of 
 him who frames the laws, some stout and firm steps found 
 through the midst of this slough ; these steps are all but 
 hid, or if they be seen, men step on one side, and then they 
 get all grime with mire, though the steps be there ; but the 
 ground is good when they are once got in at the gate." 
 
 CHAPTEE III. 
 
 WOELDLY-WISEMAN. 
 
 iiS Christian took his lone walk he saw one cross tin 
 field to meet him, and their hap was to meet just as they 
 did cross the same way. The man's name was Mr. 
 Worldly-wiseman. Hence Mr. Worldly-wiseman thus held 
 some talk with Christian. 
 
 Wor. — " How now, good friend ; where dost thou go 
 bent down with such a weish 
 
12 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 Ghr. — " As big a load, in sooth, as I think a poor wight 
 had in his life ! I am bound for yon small gate in front of 
 me; for there, as I am told, I shall be put in a way to be 
 rid of my huge load." 
 
 Wor. — " Wilt thou give heed to me, if I tell thee what 
 course to take % " 
 
 Ghr. — " If what you say be good, I will ; for I stand in 
 need of a wise guide." 
 
 Wor. — " Who bid thee go this way to be rid of thy 
 load I " 
 
 Ghr. — " A man that I thought was high and great ; his 
 name, as my mind serves me, is Evangelist." 
 
 Wor. — " There is not a more rough way to be found in 
 the world than is that he hath bade thee take ; and that 
 thou shalt find if thou wilt be led by him. Hear me : I 
 have seen more years than thou. Thou art like to meet 
 with, on the way which thou dost go, great griefs, pain, 
 lack of food and clothes, sword, fierce beasts, gloom, and, 
 in a word, death, and what not ! And why should a man 
 run such risks, just on the word of a strange guide % " 
 
 Ghr. — " Why, sir, I think I care not what things I meet 
 with in the way, if so be I can get ease from my pack." 
 
 Wor. — " But why wilt thou seek for ease this way, as 
 such dire ills go with it % the more so, hadst thou but 
 borne with me, I could aid thee to get what thou dost wish, 
 free from the risks that thou in this way wilt run." 
 
 Ghr. — " Pray, sir, make known this boon to me." 
 
 Wor. — " Why, in yon town (the town is known as 
 Morality) there dwells a squire whose name is Legality, a 
 man of good name, that has skill to help men off with such 
 loads as thine from their backs To him, as I said, thou 
 canst go and get help in a trice ; and if he should not be 
 
Worldly • Wiseman. 13 
 
 at home, he hath a fair young son, whose name is Civility, 
 that can do it as well as his sage sire." 
 
 Now was Christian at a stand what to do ; but soon he 
 thought, " If this be true which this squire hath said, my 
 best course is to be led by him " ; and with that he thus 
 spake more. 
 
 Ghr. — " Sir, which is the way to this good man's house?" 
 
 Wor. — " By that hill you must go, and the first house 
 you come at is his." 
 
 So Christian went out of his way to go to Mr. Legality's 
 house for help. But lo, when he was got now hard by the 
 hill, that side of it that Avas next the path did hang so 
 much, that Christian durst not move on, lest the hill should 
 fall on his head : for which cause there he stood still, and 
 he wot not what to do. But soon there came fierce flames 
 of fire out of the hill, each flash of which made Christian 
 dread he should be burnt. And now he was wroth for the 
 heed he gave to Mr. Worldly-wiseman's words. And with 
 that he saw Evangelist come forth to meet him ; and thus 
 did he speak with Christian : 
 
 " What dost thou here % " said he. At which words 
 Christian knew not what to say. Then said Evangelist to 
 him, " Art not thou the man that I found in tears back of 
 the walls of the City of Destruction % " 
 
 Ghr. — " Yes, dear sir, I am the man. I met with a 
 squire, so soon as I had got clear of the Slough of Despond, 
 who made me think that I might, in the town which did 
 face me, find a man that could take off my load." 
 
 Evan. — " What said that squire to you'? " 
 
 Ghr. — " He bid me with speed get rid of my load ; and 
 said I, * I am hence bound for yon gate to gain more news 
 how I may get to the place where my load may be cast off.' 
 
14 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 So he said that he would show me the best way : ' which 
 way/ said he, ' will take you to a squire's house that hath 
 skill to take off these loads.' So I put faith in him, and 
 set out of that way till I came to this, if so be I might 
 soon get ease from my load." 
 
 Then said Evangelist, " Stand still a short time, that I 
 may show thee the words of God." 
 
 Then Christian fell down at his feet as dead, and did 
 cry, " Woe is me, for I am lost ! " At the sight of which 
 Evangelist caught him by the right hand, and said, " Be 
 not frail, but have faith." 
 
 Then Evangelist went on, and said, " Give heed to the 
 things that I shall tell thee of. The man that met thee is 
 one Worldly-wiseman, and he bears a fit name; in part, 
 for that his creed is what the world holds ; and in part, for 
 that he loves such faith best, for it saves him from the 
 cross. Now. there are three things in this man's words 
 that thou must be sure and shun — his scheme to turn thee 
 out of the way ; his wish to make the cross a shame to 
 thee ; and his guile, which did tempt thee to set thy feet in 
 that way that leads to death. 
 
 " And for this thou must bear in mind to whom he sent 
 thee, no less than his lack of skill to rid thee of thy load. 
 Heto whom thou wast sent for ease, by name Legality, ha? 
 not the gift to set thee free from thy load. No man, as yet, 
 got rid of his load by him : no, nor till the end of time h) 
 like to be. ' By the works of the law none can be made just, 1 
 for by the deeds of the law no man that lives can be rid of 
 his load ; and as for his son, Civility, though he wears soft 
 looks, he is but a knave, and must fail to help thee. Trust 
 me, there is naught else in all this noise that thou hast heard 
 of this spot but a scheme to lure thee of thy soul's bliss." 
 
Tie Wicket Gate. *5 
 
 Now Christian felt sure fear of death, and burst out in a 
 shrill cry, full of woe, as he did curse the time in which he 
 met with Mr. Worldly- wiseman. Still did he say he was 
 the chief of fools for the heed he gave to him. This done,, 
 he spoke to Evangelist in words and sense thus : 
 
 Chr. — " Sir, what think you ? Is there hope ? May I 
 now go back and go up to the small gate % Shall I not be 
 sent back from thence in shame ? " 
 
 Then said Evangelist to him, " Thy sin is most great, 
 for by it thou hast done two bad deeds : thou hast left the 
 way that is good to tread in wrong paths, yet will the man 
 at the gate let thee pass, for he has good-ivill for men." 
 
 Then did Christian make up his mind to go back, and 
 Evangelist, when he did kiss his cheek, gave him a smile, 
 and bid him God speed. 
 
 CHAPTEE IV. 
 
 THE WICKET -GATE. 
 
 So Christian went on with haste, nor spake he to a man 
 by the way ; nor if a man spoke to him, would he deign 
 him a word ; so in course of time Christian got up to the 
 gate. Now at the top of the gate there were writ these 
 words : 
 
 " IRnocfc, anb it eball ope to sou." 
 
 Hence he did knock more than once or twice. 
 
 At last there came a grave man to the gate, whose name 
 was Goodwill, who sought to know who was there 1 and 
 whence he came % and what he would have % 
 
16 The PilgrirnJs Progress. 
 
 Chr. — " Here is a poor vile wight ; I come from the City 
 of Destruction, but am bound for Mo ant Zion, that I may 
 get safe from the wrath to come. I would, for this cause, 
 sir, know if you will let me in." 
 
 " I will, with all my heart," said he ; and with that he 
 drew back the gate. 
 
 So when he was got in, the man of the gate said to him, 
 ' Who told him to come to that place % " 
 
 Chr. — " Evangelist bid me come here and knock, as 
 I did ; and he said that you, sir, would tell me what I 
 must do." 
 
 Good. — " But how is it that no one came with you 1 " 
 
 Chr. — " For that none of those who dwelt near me saw 
 their plight as I saw mine." 
 
 Good. — " Did one or more of them know that you meant 
 to come here % " 
 
 Chr. — " Yes ; my wife and bairns saw me at the first, 
 and did call to me to turn round." 
 
 Good. — " But did none of them go in quest of you, to 
 urge you to go back % " 
 
 Chr. — " Yes, both Obstinate and Pliable ; but when 
 they saw that they could not gain their end, Obstinate 
 went back, and did rail the while, but Pliable came with 
 me a short way." 
 
 Good. — " But why did he not come through % " 
 
 Chr. — " We, in truth, came on side by side till we came 
 to the Slough of Despond, in the which he fell souse. But 
 as he got out on that side next to his own house, he told 
 me I should hold the brave land for him. So he went his 
 way, and I came mine." 
 
 Then said Goodwill, " Ah, poor man! " 
 
 " In sooth," said Christian, " I have said the truth of 
 
live WicM-Gaie, 
 
 17 
 
 Pliable ; but I too, did turn on one side to go in the way 
 of death, and I was led to this by the base arts of one Mr. 
 Worldly-wiseman." 
 
 Good. — " Oh, did he light on you ? What ! he would 
 have had you seek for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality : 
 
 CHRISTIAN AT THE WICKET-GATE. 
 
 they are both of them true cheats. But were you led by 
 him ? " 
 
 Ghr. — " Yes, as far as I durst. I went to finjl out Mr. 
 Legality, till I thought the mount that stands by his house 
 would have come down on my head,'* 
 
18 The PilgrwrCs Progress. 
 
 Good. — " That mount lias been the death of a host, and 
 will be the death of still more." 
 
 Chr. — " Why, in truth, I do not know what hap had 
 come to me there, had not Evangelist by good luck met 
 me once more, while I did muse in the midst of my dumps : 
 but it was God's grace that he came to me twice, for else I 
 could not have got to this place." 
 
 Good. — " We shut out none, and take no note of what 
 they have done up to the time they come here : ' they in 
 no wise are cast out ' : and hence, good Christian, come a 
 wee way with me, and I will teach thee in what way thou 
 must go. Look right in front of thee ; dost thou see this 
 strait way % That is the way thou must go." 
 
 " But," said Christian, " are there no turns or bends bv 
 which one who has not trod it may lose his way 1 " 
 
 Good. — " Yes, there are some ways butt down on this ; 
 and they are bent and wide : but thus thou canst judge 
 the right from the wrong, that the first is straight and not 
 broad." 
 
 Then Christian strove to gird up his loins, and to set 
 out on his way. So he with whom he had held speech told 
 him, " That by that he had gone some way from the gate 
 he would come at the house of the Interpreter, at whose 
 door he should knock, and he would show him good 
 things." 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE INTERPRETER'S HOUSE. 
 
 Then he went on till he came to the house of the Inter- 
 preter, at which he gave some smart knocks. At last one 
 came to the door, and did ask who was there ? 
 
The Interpreter's House. 19 
 
 " Sir," said Christian, " I am a man that a\'.i come from 
 the City of Destruction, and am bound for the Mount 
 Zion ; and I was told by the man that stands at the gate 
 at the head of this way, that if I came here you would 
 ehow me good things, such as would be a help to one on 
 the road." 
 
 Then said the Interpreter, " Come in ; I will show thee 
 that which will be of use to thee." So he told his man to 
 light the lamp, and bid Christian go in his track. Then 
 he had him in a room where none else could come, and bid 
 his man fold back the door, the which when he had done 
 Christian saw the print of one, most grave of look, hung up 
 on the wall, and this was the style of it : It had eyes that 
 did stare at the sky, the best of books in its hand, and the 
 law of truth was writ on its lips ; the world was at its back, 
 it stood as if it did plead with men, and a crown of gold 
 did hang nigh its head. 
 
 Then said Christian, " What means this? " 
 
 Inter. — " I have shown thee this print first for this cause, 
 that the man whose print this is, is the sole man whom the 
 Lord of the place where thou dost go hath sent as thy 
 guide through all the twists and turns thou wilt meet with 
 in the way ; hence take good heed to what I have shown 
 thee, and bear well in thy mind what thou hast seen, lest, 
 in thy route, thou meet with some that say they can lead 
 thee right ; but their way goes down to death." 
 
 Then he took him by the hand, and led him to a large 
 room on the ground floor that was full of dust ; the which 
 the Interpreter did call for a man to sweep. Then said the 
 Interpreter to a girl that stood by, " Bring hence from yon 
 brook the means to lay this dust." 
 
 Then said Christian, " What means this?" 
 
20 The Pihritrfs Progress. 
 
 The Interpreter thus spoke : " This room on the ground 
 floor is the heart of man that has not been made pure by 
 the sweet grace of Christ's Word. The dust is the sin thai 
 cleaves to him through the Fall, and the lust that hath 
 made foul the whole man. He who at first swept is the 
 Law ; but she that brought the means to lay the dust is the 
 Gospel." 
 
 I saw too, in my dream, that the Interpreter took him 
 by the hand, and had him in a small room, where sat two 
 youths, each one in his chair. The name of the most 
 grown was Passion, and of the next, Patience : Passion 
 did not seem at rest, but Patience was quite still. 
 
 Then I saw that one came to Passion and brought him 
 a bag of rich gifts, and did pour it down at his feet ; the 
 which he took up and felt joy in it, while at Patience he 
 gave a laugh of scorn. But I saw but a time, and he had 
 got rid of all, and had naught left b" f rags. 
 
 Then said Christian to the Interpreter, " I w^ould have 
 you make this thing more clear to me." 
 
 So he said, " These two lads are signs : Passion of the 
 men of this world, and Patience of the men of that which 
 is to come ; for, as here thou dost see, Passion will have 
 all now, this year, that is to say in this world, so are the 
 men of this world ; they must have all their good things 
 now ; they durst not stay till next year, that is till the 
 next world, for their share of good." 
 
 Then said Christian, " Now I see that Patience has the 
 best sense, and that on more grounds than one ; for that 
 he stavs for the best things, and in like way for that he 
 will have the gain of his when Passion has naught but 
 rags." 
 
 Inter. — " Nay, you may add one more, to wit, the joys 
 
22 The Pilgrim 's Progress-. 
 
 of tlie next world will not wear out, but these are soon 
 gone." 
 
 I saw, in like way, that the Interpreter took him once 
 more by the hand, and led him to a choice place, where 
 was built a great house, fine to look at ; at the sight of 
 which Christian felt much joy ; he saw, too, on the ko of 
 it some folk that did walk to and fro, who were clad all in 
 gold. 
 
 Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up nigh to 
 the door of the great house ; and lo, at the door stood a 
 host of men as did wish to go in, but durst not. There, 
 too, sat a man a short way from the door, at the side of a 
 board, with a book and his desk in front of him, to take 
 the name of him that should come in. More than this, he 
 saw that in the porch stood groups of men, clad in coats of 
 mail, to keep it, who meant to do all the hurt and harm 
 they could to the man that would go in. Now was 
 Christian in a sore maze At last, when all the men did 
 start back for fear of the men who bore arms, Christian 
 saw a man of a bold face come up to the man that sat there 
 to write, and say, " Set down my name, sir "; the which 
 when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and 
 put a casque on his head, and rush to the door on the men 
 who had arms, who laid on him with fierce force ; but the 
 man, not at all put out of the way, fell to, and did cut and 
 hack with all his might : so, when he had got and dealt 
 scores of wounds to those that strove to keep him out, he 
 cut his way through them all, and made straight for the 
 great house. 
 
 " Now," said Christian, " let me go hence." 
 
 " Nay, stay," said the Interpreter, " till I have sIiowd 
 thee some more ; and then thou shalt go on thy way." 
 
Just as Christian came up with the cress, his load got loose from 
 
 his neck, and fell from off his hack. _ 
 
 r p flge ,-; rr//r Pilgrims Progress.) 
 
The Interpreter's House. 23 
 
 So he took him by the hand once more, and led him to 
 a room dark as pitch, where there sat a man in a steel 
 cage. Now the man to look on was most sad ; and he 
 gave sighs as if he would break his heart. 
 
 The man said, " I once did seem to be what I was not 
 fair in mine own eyes, and in the eyes of those that knew 
 me. I was once, as I thought, fair for the Celestial City, 
 and went so far as to have joy at the thoughts tha£ I should 
 get there." 
 
 Chr.—" Well, but what art thou now ? " 
 
 Man. — " I am now a man lost to hope." 
 
 Chr. — " But how didst thou get in this state % " 
 
 Man. — " I did sin in face of the light of the World, and 
 the grace of God. I made the Spirit grieve, and he is 
 gone." 
 
 Then said Christian, " Is there no hope, but you must 
 be kept in the steel cage of gloom % " 
 
 Man.— U None at all." 
 
 Chr. — " But canst thou not now grieve and turn % " 
 
 Man. — " God hath not let me ; his Word gives me no 
 aid to faith ; yea, he hath shut me up in this steel cage ; 
 nor can all the men in the world let me out." 
 
 Then said the Interpreter to Christian, " Let this man's 
 wails be dwelt on by thee, and cease not to teach thee how 
 to act." 
 
 So he took Christian and led him to a room where one 
 did rise out of bed ; and as he put on his clothes he did 
 shake and quake. 
 
 Then said Christian, "Why doth this man thus shake?" 
 
 So he spoke and said, " This night as I was in my sleep 
 I dreamt, and lo, the sky grew black as ink, when name 
 flit from the clouds ; on which J, heard a dread noise, that 
 
24 The Pilgrims Progress. 
 
 put me in throes of pain. So I did lift up my eyes in my 
 dream, and saw a man sit on a cloud, with a huge host 
 near to him. I heard, then, a voice that said, ' Come forth, 
 ye dead, and meet your Judge ! ' And with that the rocks 
 rent, the graves did gape, and the dead that were in them 
 came forth. Then I saw the man that sat on the cloud 
 fold back the book and bid the world draw near. I heard 
 it, in lik^ way, told to them that were near the man that 
 sat on the cloud, ' Bind up the tares, and the chaff, and the 
 stalks, and cast them in the lake that burns with fire.' 
 Then said the voice to the same men, ' Put up my wheat 
 in the barn ! ' and with that I saw a host caught up in the 
 clouds, but I was left stay." 
 
 Chr. — " But what was it that made you so quake at this 
 sight % " 
 
 Man. — " Why, I thought that the day of doom had 
 come, and that I was not fit to meet it. But this made me 
 fear most, that some were caught up while I was left." 
 
 Then said the Interpreter to Christian, " Hast thou 
 thought well on all these things 1 " 
 
 Chr. — " Yes ; and they put me in hope and fear." 
 
 Inter. — " Well, keep all things so in thy mind that they 
 may be as a goad in thy sides, to prick thee on in the way 
 thou must go." 
 
 Then Christian girt up his loins, and thought but of the 
 long road he had to tread. 
 
So I saw that just as Christian came up to the cross, his load 
 ^fit loose from his neck, and fell from off Ins back. — Page 25. 
 
 Pilgrim' 's Progress. 
 
2 Tie Cross and the Contrast. 25 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE CROSS AND THE CONTRAST. 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that the high road had on each 
 side a wall for a fence, and that wall went by the name of 
 Salvation. Up this way, then, did Christian run with 
 his load, till he came to a place where was a high slope, 
 and on that place stood a cross, and a short way from it in 
 the vale, a tomb. So I saw in my dream that just as 
 Christian came up with the cross, his load got loose from 
 his neck, and fell from off his back, and did roll till it came 
 to the mouth of the grave, where it fell in, and I saw it no 
 more. 
 
 Then was Christian full glad, and said, with a gay 
 heart, " He hath brought me rest by his grief, and life by 
 his death." Then he stood still for a short time to look 
 with awe, for it was a strange thing to him that the sight 
 of the cross should thus ease him of his load. 
 
 I saw then in my dream that he went on thus till he 
 came to a vale, where he saw three men in deep sleep, with 
 gyves on their heels. The name of the one was Simple ; 
 the next, Sloth ; and the third, Presumption. 
 
 Christian went to them, if so be he might rouse them ; 
 so he said in a loud voice, "You are like them that sleep 
 on the top of a mast, for the Dead Sea is low down at your 
 feet, a gulf that no plumb line can sound ; get up, hence 
 and come on." 
 
 With this they gave a glum look at him, and spoke in 
 this sort : Simple said, " I see no cause for fear"; Sloth 
 said, " Yet some more sleen "" *md Presumption said, 
 
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 " Each tub must stand on its own end." And so they lay 
 down to sleep once more, and Christian went on his way. 
 Yet felt he grief to think that men in that sad plight 
 should so spurn the kind act of him that of his own free 
 will sought to help them. And as he did grieve from this 
 
 FOEMALIST AKD HYPOCRISY COMING INTO THE WAY OVER THE WALL. 
 
 cause, he saw two men roll off a wall, on the left hand of 
 the strait way. The name of the one was Formalist, and 
 the name of the next Hypocrisy. So they drew up nigh 
 him, who thus held speech with them : 
 
 <7Ar.«—" Sirs, whence caumyou, and where do you go % " 
 
The Cross and the Contrast. 27 
 
 Form, and Hyp. — " We were born in the land of Vahiv 
 glory, and are bent for praise to Mount Zion." 
 
 Ghr. — " Why came you not in at the gate which stands 
 at the head of the way ? " 
 
 They said, " That to go to the gate to get in was by ah 
 their horde thought too far round." 
 
 Chr. — " But will it not be thought a wrong done to the 
 Lord of the town where we are bound, thus to break his 
 law which he hath made known to us 1 " 
 
 They told him, " That this act of theirs, as it stood for 
 so long a time, would no doubt be thought good in law by 
 a just judge ; and more than this," said they, " if we get in 
 the way, what boots it which way we get in % If we are 
 in, we are in. Thou art but in the way, who, as we see, 
 came in at the gate ; and we too are in the way, that fell 
 from the top of the wall. In what? now, is thy state a 
 whit more good than ours % " 
 
 Ghr. — " I walk by the rule of my Lord ; you walk by 
 the rude quirks of your vague whims. At this time you 
 count but as thieves in the sight of the Lord of the way 
 hence I doubt you will not be found true men at the end 
 of the way. By laws and rules you will not get safo, since 
 you came not in by the door. I have, too, a mark on my 
 brow, which you may not have seen, which one of my 
 Lord's most stanch friends put there, in the day that my 
 load fell from off my back. More than this, I will tell you 
 that I then got a roll with a seal on it, to cheer me while 
 I read it, as I go on the way : I was told to give it in at 
 the Celestial Gate, as a sure sign that I, too, should go in 
 at the right time : all which things I doubt you want, and 
 want them for that you came not in at the gatekT 
 
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 CHAPTEE VII. 
 
 THE HILL DIFFICULTY. 
 
 I SAW then that they all went on till they came to the 
 foot of the Hill Difficulty, at the end of which was a spring. 
 There were in the same place two ways more than that 
 which came straight from the gate : one bent to the left 
 hand, and the next to the right, at the base of the hill ; but 
 the strait way lay right up the hill ; and the name of 
 that path up the side of the hill is known as Difficulty. 
 Christian now went to the spring and drank of it to cool 
 his blood and quench his thirst, and then he set forth to go 
 up the hill. 
 
 The two with whom he had held speech in like way 
 came to the foot of the hill ; but when they saw that the 
 hill was steep and high, and that there were two more ways 
 to go, and as they thought that these two ways might meet 
 in the long run with that up which Christian went, on the 
 rear side of the hill, — hence they made up their minds to 
 go in those ways. 
 
 Now the name of one of those ways was Danger, and 
 the name of the next Destruction. So the one took the 
 way which is known as Danger, which led him to a great 
 wood ; and he who was with him took straight up the way, 
 to Destruction, which led to a wide field full of dark cliffs, 
 where he made a slip, and fell, and rose no more. 
 
 I then cast my eyes on Christian, and I saw that from a 
 run he came to a walk, and at last had to climb on his 
 hands and his knees, so steep was the place. 
 
 Now half the way tn the top of the hill was a nook made 
 
Timorous was afraid of wild beasts and ran down the hill.— - 
 Page 29, Pilgrim's Progress^ 
 
The Hill Difficulty. 29 
 
 of trees, fair to look on, made oy the Lord of the hill for 
 the good of such as trod that place. There, then, Christian 
 got ; there, too, he sat down to rest him. 
 
 Thus sought he cheer a while, when he fell to doze, andj 
 then went off in a fast sleep. 
 
 Now as he slept there came one to him, who woke him 
 and said, " Go to the ant, thou man of sloth ; think of her 
 ways, and be wise." And with that Christian did start up, 
 and went on till he came to the top of the hill. 
 
 Now when he was got up to the top of the hill, there 
 came two men who ran right up to him so as to push him. 
 The name of the one was Timorous, and of the next Mis- 
 trust ; to whom Christian said, " Sirs, what doth ail you % 
 You run the wrong way." 
 
 Timorous said that they were bound to the City of Zion, 
 and had got up to that hard place ; " but," said he, " the 
 more we go on the more risks we meet with ; hence did we 
 turn, and mean not to go back." 
 
 "Yes," said Mistrust, "for just in front of us lie a brace 
 of wild beasts in the way — that they sleep or wake we 
 know not — and we could not think if we came in their 
 reach but they would at once pull us in bits." 
 
 Then Mistrust and Timorous ran down the hill, and 
 Christian went on his way. But as he dwelt on what he 
 heard from the men, the sun went down ; and this made 
 him once more think how vain it was for him to have sunk 
 to sleep. Now, he brought to mind the tale that Mistrust 
 and Timorous had told him of how they took fright at the 
 sight of the wild beasts. Then did Christian muse thus : 
 " These beasts range in the night for their prey ; and if 
 they should meet with me in the dark, how should I shift 
 them 1 how should I get free from their fangs 1 they would 
 
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 tear me to bits." Thus he went on his way. But, while 
 he did mourn his dire hap, he lift up his eyes, and lo, there 
 was a grand house in front of him, the name of which was 
 Beautiful, and it stood just on the side of the high road. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL. 
 
 So 1 saw in my dream that he made haste and went 
 forth, that, if so be, he might get a place to lodge there. 
 Now ere he had gone far, he saw two wild beasts in the 
 way. (The beasts were made fast, but he saw not the 
 chains.) Then he took fright, and thought to go back ; 
 for he thought death of a truth did face him. But when 
 the man at the lodge, whose name is Watchful, saw that 
 Christian made a halt, he did cry to him and say, " Is thy 
 strength so small 1 Fear not the wild beasts, for they are 
 in chains, and are put there for test of faith where it is, and 
 to make known those that have none : keep in the midst 
 of the path, and no hurt shall come to thee." 
 
 Then did he clap his hands, and went on till he came 
 and stood in front of the gate where the Porter was. Then 
 said Christian to the Porter, " Sir, what house is this ? and 
 may I lodge here this night 1 " The Porter said, " This 
 house was built by the Lord of the hill, and he built it to 
 aid and guard such as speed this way." The Porter, in 
 like way, sought to know whence he was ; and to what 
 place he was bound 1 
 
 Chr. — " I am come from the City of Destruction ; and 
 
This is Mistrust, whom Christian met going the wrong way,— 
 Page 29. Pilgrim's Proareaa. 
 
The Palace Beautiful 31 
 
 am on my way to Mount Zioii ; but as the sun is now set, 
 I wish, if I may, to lodge here this night." 
 
 Pot. — " But how doth it hap that you come so late % 
 The sun is set." 
 
 Qhr—j' I had been here ere this, but that, mean man 
 that I am, I slept in the nook that stands on the side of 
 the hill." 
 
 Por. — " Well, I will call out one of the maids of this 
 place, who will, if she likes your talk, bring you in to the 
 rest of the folk, as such are the rules of the house." 
 
 So Watchful rang a bell, at the sound of which came out 
 at the door of the house a grave and fair maid, whose 
 name was Discretion, who would know why she had got a 
 call. 
 
 The Porter said, " This man is in the way frou. the City 
 of Destruction to Mount Zion, but as he doth tire, and as 
 night came on, he sought to know if he might lodge here 
 for the night : so I told him I would call for thee, who, 
 when thou dost speak with him, may do as seems to thee 
 good, and act up to the law of the house." 
 
 Then she would know whence he was, and to what place 
 he was bound, and his name. So he said, " It is Christian." 
 So a smile sat on her lips, but the tears stood in her eyes; 
 and, when she gave a short pause, she said, " I will call 
 forth two or three more of those who dwell here." So she 
 ran to the door, and did call out Prudence, Piety, and 
 Charity : and when she had held more speech with him, he 
 was brought in, and made known to all who dwelt in the 
 house, some of whom met him at the porch, and said, 
 " Come in, thou whom the Lord doth bless ; this house was 
 built by the Lord of the hill, to give good cheer to such 
 who, like you, grow faint by the wav." Then he bent his 
 
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 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 head, and went in with them to the house. So when he 
 was come in and set down, they gave him to drink, and 
 then they thought that till the last meal was brought up, 
 some of them should have some wise talk with Christian, 
 ►so as to make good use of time. 
 
 CHRISTIAN IS QUESTIONED BY DISCRETION. 
 
 B§ 
 
 Pi. — " Come, good Christian, since we have shown such 
 love for you as to make you our guest this night,' let us, if 
 so be we may each get good by it, talk with you of all 
 things that you have met with on your way." 
 
This is Formalist, whom Christian saw roll from the top of 
 a wali, as if to go to Zion.— Page 33. Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
TAe Palace Beautifut. 33 
 
 Chr. — " With a right good will ; and I am glad your 
 mind is so well bent." 
 
 Pi.—" How was it that you came out of your land in 
 this way ? " 
 
 Chr. — " It was as God would have it ; for when I was 
 full of the fears of doom, I did not know where to go ; but 
 by chance there came a man then to me, whilst I shook 
 and wept, whose name is Evangelist, and he told me how 
 to reach the small gate, which else I should not have found, 
 and so set me in the way that hath led me straight to this 
 house." 
 
 Pi. — " But did you not come by the house of the Inter- 
 preter ] " 
 
 Chr.—" Yes, and did see such things there, the thoughts 
 of which will stick by me as long as I live ; in chief, three 
 things ; to wit, how Christ, in spite of the Foe of Man, 
 keeps up his work of grace in the heart ; how the man, 
 through sin, had got quite out of hopes of God's ruth ; and, 
 in like way, the dream of him that thought in his sleep the 
 day of doom was come." 
 
 Pi. — " And what saw you else in the way ? " 
 
 Chr. — " Saw ! Why, I went but a wee way and I saw 
 One, as I thought in my mind, hang and bleed on a tree ; 
 and the sheer sight of him made my load fall off my back ; 
 for I did groan through the great weight, but then it fell 
 down from off me." 
 
 Pi. — " But you saw more than this, did you not % " 
 
 Chr. — " The things that I have told you were the best ; 
 yet some more things I saw, as, first of all, I saw three men, 
 Simple, Sloth, and Presumption, lie in sleep, not far out 
 of the way as I came, with gyves on their heels ; but do 
 you think I could rouse then* 3 I saw, in like way, Form- 
 
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 alist and Hypocrisy come and roll from the top of a wall, 
 to go, as they fain would have me think, to Zion ; but they 
 were lost in a trice, just as I did tell them ; but they would 
 not heed my words." 
 
 Pr. — " Do you think at times of the land from whence 
 you came % " 
 
 Ghr, — " Yes, but with much shame and hate," 
 
 Pr. — " Do you not yet bear hence with you some of the 
 things that you well knew there 1 " 
 
 Ghr. — " Yes, but much in strife with my will ; the more 
 so the crass thoughts of my heart, with which all the folk 
 of my land, as well as I, would find joy ; but now all those 
 things are my grief, and might I but choose mine own 
 things, I would choose not to think of those things more ; 
 but when I would do that which is best, that which is 
 worst is with me." 
 
 Pr. — " And what is it that makes you so long to go to 
 Mount Zion ? " 
 
 Ghr. — " Why, there I hope to see Him live that did 
 hang dead on the cross ; and there I hope to be rid of all 
 those things that to this day are in me and do vex me : 
 there they say there is no death ; and there I shall dwell 
 with such folk as I like best." 
 
 Then said Charity to Christian, " Have you bairns, and 
 nave you a wife % " 
 
 Ghr. — " I have a wife and four small bairns." 
 
 Char. — " And why did you not bring them on with you'? 1 ' 
 
 Then Christian wept and said, " Oh, fain would I have 
 done it ! but they were all of them loath to let me leave 
 them." 
 
 Char. — "But you should have sought to show them the 
 risks they ran when they hehi-J^ack." 
 
Hypocrisy would fain have Christian think he was on the way 
 to Zion.--Page 34. Pilgrim's Prog °s». 
 
The Palace Beautiful. 35 
 
 Chr. — " So I did ; and told them, too, that God had 
 shown to me how that our town would come to wrack ; 
 but they thought I did but mock, and they put no faith in 
 what I said." 
 
 Char. — "But what could they say to show cause why 
 they came not % " 
 
 CHRISTIAN TELLS CHARITY AND HER SISTERS ABOUT HIS FAMILY. 
 
 (Jhr. — " Why, my wife was loath to lose this world ; 
 and my bairns were bent on the rash joys of youth" so, 
 what by this thing, and what by that thing, they left me 
 to roam in this lone way." 
 
 Char. — " But did you not with your vain life damp all 
 
36 The Pilgrim? s Progress. 
 
 that you by words made use of as force to bring them off 
 with you 1 " 
 
 Chr. — " In sooth, I must not say aught for my life, as I 
 know full well what blurs there are in it. I know, too, 
 that a man by his deeds may soon set at naught what by 
 sound speech and wit of words he doth strive to fix on 
 some for their good. Yet this I can say, I took heed not 
 to give them cause, by a false act, to shirk the step I took f 
 and not set out with me. Yea, for this sole thing they 
 would tell me I was too nice ; and that I would not touch 
 of things in which they saw no guile." 
 
 Char. — "In truth, Cain did hate him who came of the 
 same blood, for that his works were bad, and Abel's not 
 so ; and if thy wife and bairns have thought ill of thee for 
 this, they show by it that they are foes to good ; and thou 
 hast set free thy soul from their blood." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that thus they sat and spoke 
 each to each till the meal was laid on the board ; and all 
 their talk while they ate was of the Lord of the hill ; as, 
 in sooth, of what he had done, and why it was he did what 
 he did, and why he had built that house. 
 
 They, in like way, gave prompt proof of what they said, 
 and that was, he had stript him of his rich robes, that he 
 might do this for the poor ; and that they heard him say, 
 with stern stress, that he would not dwell in the Mount of 
 Zion in a lone way. They said, too, that he made a host 
 of poor ones kings, though by the law of their birth they 
 were born to live on bare alms, and their first state had 
 been low and bad. 
 
 Thus they spoke, this one to that one, till late at night ; 
 and when they had put them in the Lord's care they went 
 to rest. 
 
Then he set forth: but Discretion, Piety. Charity, and Prudence 
 would go with him down to the foot of the hill. 
 (Page 38) (The Pilgrim's Progress.) 
 
The Palace Beautiful. 37 
 
 The next day they took him and had him in the place 
 in which arms were kept, where he was shown all sorts of 
 things which their Lord had put there for such as he, as 
 sword, shield, casque, plate for breast, All-prayer^ and 
 shoes that would not wear out. And there was here as 
 much of this as would fit out a host of men to serve the 
 Lord. 
 
 In like way did they show him some of the means with 
 which some of his friends had done things that strike one 
 with awe. He was shown the jaw-bone of the ass with 
 which Samson did such great feats. More than this, he 
 was shown the sling and stone with which David slew 
 Goliath of Gath. But more things still were shown to him, 
 in all of which Christian felt much joy. This done, they 
 went to their rest once more. 
 
 Then T saw in my dream that on the morn he got up to 
 go forth, but they fain would have him sta}^ till the next 
 day; " and then," said they, " we will, if the day be clear, 
 show you the Delectable Mountains, which," they said, 
 " would yet the more add to his bliss, for that they were 
 yet more nigh the port than the place where at that time 
 he was." So he thought it well to stay. 
 
 When the morn was up, they had him to the top of the 
 house, and bid him look south ; so he did, and lo, a long 
 way off, he saw a fair land, full of high hills, clad with 
 woods, vine grounds, fruits of all sorts, plants as well, with 
 springs and founts, most bright to look on. They said it 
 was Immanuel's Land ; " and it is as free," said they, " as 
 this hill is to and for all that are in the way. And when 
 thou dost come there from thence," said they, "thou canst 
 see to the gate of the Celestial City, as those who watch 
 their flocks and live there will show thee." 
 
'38 The Pilgrim } s Progress. 
 
 Now he thought it was due time to set forth, and they 
 were glad that he should. " But first," said they, " let us 
 go once more to where the arms are kept." So they did. 
 And when he came there they clad him in coat of mail, 
 which was of proof, from head to foot, lest he should 
 chance meet with foes in the way. 
 
 He then, in this gear, came out with his friends to the 
 gate, and there he would know of the Porter " if he saw 
 one pass by % " 
 
 Then the Porter said " Yes." 
 
 Chr. — " Pray did you know him ? " 
 
 Por. — " I did ask his name, and he told me it was 
 Faithful." 
 
 " Oh," said Christian, " I know him : he is from the 
 same town, and lives nigh to where I dwell : he comes 
 from the place where I was born. How far do you think 
 he may be on the road % " 
 
 Pov. — " He has got by this time more than to the foot 
 of the hill." 
 
 Then he set forth : but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and 
 Prudence would go with him down to the foot of the hill. 
 Then said Christian, " As it was hard to come up, so, so 
 far as I can see, it is a risk to go down." " Yes," said 
 Prudence, " so it is ; for it is a hard thing for a man to go 
 down in the Vale of Humiliation, as thou art now, and to 
 catch no slip by the way ; hence," said they, " we are 
 come out to see thee safe down the hill." So he strove to 
 go down, but with great heed ; yet he caught a slip or two. 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that these good friends, when 
 Christian was gone down to the foot of the hill, gave him 
 a loaf of bread, a flask of wine, and a bunch of dry grapes ; 
 and then he went on his way. 
 
Apollyon. 39 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 APOLLYOK. 
 
 But now, in this Vale of Humiliation, poor Christian 
 was hard put to it ; for he had gone but a short way, when 
 he saw a foul fiend come through the field to meet him : 
 his name is Apollyon. 
 
 So he went on, and Apollyon met him. Now the ghoul 
 did shock one's eyes to look on : he was clad with scales 
 like a fish ; he had wings like a huge bat, feet like a bear, 
 and out of his throat came fire and smoke, and his mouth 
 was as the mouth of the king of beasts. When he came 
 up to Christian he gave him a look of scorn, and thus 
 sought to sift him. 
 
 Apol.—" Whence came you? and to what place are you 
 bound ? " 
 
 Gfir. — " I am come from the City of Destruction, which 
 is the place of all ill, and am on my way to Mount 2ion." 
 
 Apol. — " By this I know thou art one of my serfs ; for 
 all that land is mine ; and I am the prince and god of it." 
 How is it, then, that thou hast run off from thy king 1 
 Were it not that I hope thou wilt serve me yet more, I 
 would strike thee now at one blow to the ground." 
 
 Chr.~" I was born, in sooth, in your realm, but to 
 serve thee was hard, and your pay such as a man could 
 not live on ; * for the meed of sin is death ': for this cause, 
 when I was come to years, I did, as some who think do, 
 look out if so be I might mend my state. I have let my 
 help to some one else ; and to no less than the King o£ 
 Kings." 
 
40 The Pilgrim's Progress, 
 
 Apol. — " Think yet, while thou art in cool blood, what 
 thou art like to meet with in the way that thou dost go. 
 Thou art not blind that for the most part those who serve 
 him come to an ill end, for that they spurn my laws and 
 walk not in my paths. What a host of them have been 
 put to deaths of shame ! And still thou dost count that to 
 serve him is best ; when, in sooth, he has not yet come 
 from the place where he is, to save one that stood by his 
 cause, out of my hands." 
 
 Chr. — " He does not seek so soon to save them, so as to 
 try their love, and find if they will cleave to him to the 
 end ; and as for the ill end thou dost say they come to, that 
 tells for their good : for to be set free now they do not 
 much look for it ; for they stay for their meed ; and they 
 shall have it when their Prince comes in the might of the 
 bright hosts that wait on him." 
 
 Apol. — " Thon hast erst been false in thy turns to serve 
 him ; and how dost thou think to get pay of him % " 
 
 Chr. — " All this is true ; but the Prince whom I serve 
 and love is sure to show ruth. Bat, let me say, these 
 faults held hold of me in thy land ; for there I did suck 
 them in, and they have made me groan and grieve for 
 them ; whence I have got the grace of my Prince." 
 
 Then Apollyon broke out in a sore rage, and said, " I am 
 a foe to this Prince : I hate him, his laws, and they who 
 serve him. I am come out with the view to make thee 
 yield." 
 
 Chr. — " Apollyon, take heed what you do ; for 1 am on 
 the King's high road, the way of grace ; for which cause 
 mind how you act." 
 
 Then did Christian draw ; for he saw it was time for him 
 to stir ; and Apollyon as fast made at him, and threw darts as 
 
Apollyon. 41 
 
 thick as hail, by the which* m spite of ail that Christian 
 could do to shift it, Apollyon hit him in his head, his hand, 
 and foot. This made Christian give some back : Apollyon 
 then went to his work with heart, and Christian once more 
 took heart, and met his foe as well as he could. 
 
 Then Apollyon, as he saw his time had come, made up 
 close to Christian, and as he strove to throw him gave him 
 a dread fall ; and with that Christian's sword flew out of 
 his hrjid. Then said Apollyon, " I am sure of thee now ! " 
 and with that he did nigh pr^ss him to death ; so that 
 Christian had slight hope of life. But, as God would have 
 it, while Apollyon dealt his last blow, by that means to 
 make a full end of this good man, Christian at once put 
 out his hand for his sword, caught it, and said, " When I 
 fall, I shall then rise "; and with that gave him a fierce 
 thrust; which made him give back as one that had got 
 his death wound. Christian saw that, and made at him 
 once more, while he said, " Nay, in all these things we 
 more than gain the prize through him that loves us "; and 
 with that Apollyon spread forth his foul wings and sped 
 him off, that Christian saw no more of him. 
 
 So when the fight came to a close, Christian said, " I 
 will here give thanks to him that hath kept me out of the 
 mouth of the chief of beasts, to him that did help me in 
 the strife with Apollyon." 
 
 Then there came to him a hand with some of the leaves 
 of the " tree of life," the which Christian took and laid 
 them on the wounds that he had got in the strife, and war 
 made whole at once. 
 
42 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH. 
 
 Now at the end of this vale was one more, known as the 
 Vale of the Shade of Death, and Christian must needs go 
 through it, for this cause, that the way to the Celestial 
 City lay through the midst of it. 
 
 I saw then in my dream, so far as the bounds of the 
 Vale, there was on the right hand a most deep ditch ; that 
 ditch is it to which the blind have led the blind in each 
 age, and have both there lost their lives. 
 
 Once more, lo, on the left hand there was a fell quag, in 
 the which, strange to say, if a good man falls he finds no 
 ground for his foot to stand on. 
 
 The path was here quite strait, and hence good Christian 
 was the more put to it ; for when he sought in the dark to 
 shun the ditch on the one hand, he was prone to tip on one 
 side souse in the mire on the next. 
 
 Nigh the midst of the vale I saw the mouth of hell to be, 
 and it stood, too, hard by the side of the way. And at 
 times the flame and smoke would come out so thick and 
 with such force, that he had to put up his sword and seize 
 more fit arms, known as All-prayer ; so I heard him cry, 
 " Lord, I pray thee save my soul ! " 
 
 Thus he went on a great while ; and as he came to a 
 place where he thought he heard a band of fiends come 
 forth to meet him, he stopt, and did muse what he had 
 best to dc. He brought to mind how he had of late held 
 his foes at bay, and that the risk to go back might be much 
 more than to go on. So he made up his mind to go on : 
 
The Valley of the Shadow of Death. 43 
 
 yet the fiends did seem to come near and more near. But 
 when they were come just at him he did cry with a loud 
 voice, " I will Avalk in the strength of the Lord God ": sq 
 they gave back, and came on no more. 
 
 When Christian had trod on in this lorn state some 
 length of time, he thought he heard the voice of a man, 
 as if in front of him, say thus : "Though. I walk through 
 the vale of the shade of death I will fear no ill : for Thou 
 art with me." 
 
 Then was he glad for that he learnt from thence that 
 some who fear God were in this vale as well as he ; that 
 God was with them, though in that dark and dire state. 
 So he went on. And by and by the day broke. Then 
 said Christian, " He doth turn the shade of death to 
 
 morn." 
 
 Now as morn had come, he gave a look back to see by 
 the light of the day what risks he had gone through in the 
 dark. So he had a more clear view of the ditch that was 
 on the one hand, and the quag that was on the next ; in 
 like way he saw how strait the way was which lay twixt 
 them both. And just at this time the sun rose ; and this 
 was one more boon to Christian : for, from the place where 
 he now stood as far as to the end of the vale, the way was 
 all through set so full of snares, traps, gins, and nets, here ; 
 and so full of pits, falls, deep holes, and slopes, down 
 there ; that had it now been dark, as it was when he came 
 the first part of the way, had he had five times ten score 
 souls, they had for this cause been cast off. But, as I saip 1 
 just now, the sun did rise. 
 
 In this light hence he came to the end of the vale- 
 
44 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 CHEISTIAN AND FAITHFUL. 
 
 Now as Christian went on his way he came to a ^mall 
 height, which was cast up so that those who came that 
 way might see in front of them. Up there, then, Christian 
 went : and, with a glance, saw Faithful some way on the 
 road. 
 
 At this Christian set out with all his strength, and soon 
 got up with Faithful, and did, in sooth, leave him lag, so 
 that the last was first. Then did Christian wear a proud 
 smile, for that he had got the start of his friend : but as he 
 did not take good heed to his feet, he soon struck some 
 tuft and fell, and could not rise till Faithful came up to 
 help him. 
 
 Then I saw in my dream, they went on with good will 
 side by side, and had sweet talk of all things that they had 
 met with on their way : and thus Christian first spoke : 
 
 " My most dear friend Faithful, I am glad I have come 
 up with you ; and that God hath so made us of one mind 
 that we can walk as friends in this so fair a path. Tell 
 me now what you have met with in the way as you came: 
 for I know you have met with some things, or else it may 
 be writ for a strange pass." 
 
 Fed. — " I got clear of the slough that I see you fell in, 
 and came up to the gate free from that risk. When I 
 came to the foot of the hill known as Difficulty, I met with 
 an old man, who would know what I was, and to what 
 place I was bound ? Then said the old man, ' Thou dost 
 look like a frank soul: wilt thou stay and dwell with me 
 
46 The Pilgrim } s Progress. 
 
 for the pay that I shall give thee 1 ' Then I did ask his 
 name, and where he dwelt 1 He said, ' His name was 
 Adam the First, and he dwelt in the Town of Deceit.' He 
 told me, ' That his work was fraught with joys, and his 
 pay, that I should be his heir at last.' I then would know 
 what kin he had ? He said, ' He had but three maids, 
 " the Lust of the flesh, the Lust of the eyes, and the Pride 
 of life," and that I should wive with one of them, if I 
 would." 
 
 Chr. — " Well, and what close came the old man and you 
 to at last ? " 
 
 Fai. — " Why, at first I would lief go with the man, for 
 I thought he spake full fair ; but when I gave a look in his 
 brow, as I spoke with him, I saw there writ, ' Put off the 
 old man with his deeds.' Then it came red hot to my 
 mind, that spite of all he said, and his smooth ways, when 
 he got me home to his house he would sell me for a slave. 
 So I went off from him : but just as I set round to go 
 thence, I felt him take hold of my flesh, and give me such 
 a dread twitch back, that I thought he did pull part of me 
 with him. So I went on my way up the hill. 
 
 " Now, when I had got nigh half way up, I gave a look 
 back, and saw one move on in my steps, swift as the wind ; 
 so he came up with me just by the place where the bench 
 stands. So soon as the man came up with me, it was but 
 a word and a blow, for down he flung me, and laid me for 
 dead. But, when I got free from the shock, I would know 
 why it was he dealt with me so % He said, ' For that I did 
 in my heart cleave to Adam the First': and with that he 
 struck me one more fierce blow on the breast, and beat me 
 down on the back. He had, no doubt, made an end of me, 
 but that one came by and bid him stay his hand." 
 
This is Discontent, who would fain have Christian go back 
 with him once JPl ore. — Page 47. Pilgrim's Progress, 
 
Christian, and Faithful. 47 
 
 <jhr. — " Who was that that bid him stay his hand % " 
 
 Fai.—' 1 did not know him ai first, but as he went by 
 I saw the holes in his hands and in his side : then I felt 
 sure that he was our Lord. So I went up the hill." 
 
 Ghr. — " That man that came up with you was Moses. 
 He spares not, nor knows he how to show grace to those 
 that break his law. But did you not see the house that 
 stood there on the top of the hill, on the side of which 
 Moses met you % " 
 
 Fai. — " Yes, and the wild beasts, too, ere I came at it : 
 but, as I had so much of the day to spend, I came by the 
 man at the lodge, and then down the hill." 
 
 Ghr. — " But, pray tell me, did you meet with no one in 
 the Vale of Humility I " 
 
 Fai. — " Yes, I met with one Discontent, who would fain 
 have me to go back once more with him : his cause was, for 
 thai? the vale did not bear a good name." 
 
 Ghr.- — " Met you with naught else in that vale 1 " 
 
 Fai. — -" Yes, I met with Shame : but of all men that I 
 met with in my way, he, I think, bears the wrong name." 
 
 Ghr. — u Why, what did he say to you V 
 
 Fai,— (i What ! Why, he did flout at faith. He said it 
 was a poor, low, mean thing for a man to mind faith; he 
 said that a soul that shrinks from sin is not fit for a man. 
 He said, too, that but few of the great, rich, or wise held 
 my views ; nor did those till they were led to be fools, and 
 to be of a free mind to run the loss of all for none else 
 knows what. More than this, he said such were of a base 
 and low caste, and knew naught of those things which are 
 the boast of the wise. Yea, he did hold me to it that it 
 was a shame to ask grace of folk for slight faults, or to give 
 back that which I did take. He said, too, that faith made 
 
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 The PilgrirriJs Progress. 
 
 a man grow strange to the great, and made him own and 
 prize the base : ' and is not this,' said he, ' a shame % ' " 
 
 Ghr. — " And what did you say to him % " 
 
 Fai. — " Say ! I could not tell what to say at first. Yea, 
 he put me so to it that my blood came up in my face ; aye, 
 this Shame did fetch it up, and had, too, beat me quite off. 
 
 FAITHFUL RESISTS SHAME. 
 
 But at last I thought that that which men prize was base 
 in the sight of God. Hence, thought I, what God says is 
 best, is best, though all the men in the world are foes to it. 
 As, then, God likes his faith; as God likes a soul that 
 shrinks from sin ; and as they are most wise who wear the 
 guise of fools to gain a crown ;, and that the poor man that 
 
Christian and Faithful. 49 
 
 ioves Christ is more rich than the man that sways a world, 
 that hates him ; Shame, go thy way, thou art a foe to my 
 soul's weal. But, in sooth, this Shame was a bold knave ; 
 I could scarce shake him out of my way : but at last I told 
 him it was but in vain to strive with me from that time 
 forth. And when I shook him off, then I sang— 
 
 " The tests that those men meet, with all men else 
 That bow their wills to the high call of God, 
 Are great ; and well, I wist, do suit the flesh, 
 And come, and come, and come e'en yet once more ; 
 That now, or some time else, we by them may 
 Be held in thrall, flung down, and cast sheer off : 
 O, let those in the way, let all such, then, 
 Be sharp, and quick, and quit them like true men.'* 
 
 Chr. — " I am glad, my friend, that thou didst strive 
 with this knave in so brave a way ; for he is so bold as to 
 trace our steps in the streets, and to try to put us to shame 
 in the sight of all men ; that is, to make us feel shame in 
 that which is good." 
 
 Fai. — " I think we must cry to Him for help in our frays 
 with Shame, that would have us ' Stand up for truth on the 
 earth.' " 
 
 Chr. — " You say true : but did you meet none else in 
 that vale ? " 
 
 Fai. — " No, not I ; for I had the sun with me all the 
 rest of the way through that, as well as through the Vale 
 of the Shade of Death." 
 
 Chr. — " It was well for you ; I am sure it did fare far 
 worse with me. I thought I should have lost my life there 
 more than once : but at last day broke, and the sun rose, 
 and I went through that which was to the front of me with 
 far more ease and peace." 
 
50 The Pilgrim } s Progress, 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 TALKATIVE. 
 
 Moee than this, I saw in my dream, that as they went 
 on, Faithful saw a man whose name is Talkative, walk 
 some way off by the side of them : for in this place there 
 was full room for them all to walk. To this man Faithful 
 spoke in such wise : 
 
 " Friend, to what place dost thou go ? dost thou go to 
 the blest land ? " 
 
 Talk. — " I am bound to that same place." 
 
 Fai. — " Come on then, and let us go side by side, and 
 let us spend our time well, by wise speech that tends to 
 use." 
 
 Talk. — " To talk of things that are good, I like much, 
 with you or with some one else. For, to speak the truth, 
 there are but few that care thus to spend their time, as 
 they are on their way." 
 
 Fai. — " That is, in sooth, a thing to mourn ; for what 
 thing so meet for the use of the tongue and mouth of men 
 on earth, as are the things of the great God on high % " 
 
 Talk. — " I like you right well, for what you say is full 
 of force ; and, I will add, what thing doth so please or 
 what brings such a boon as to talk of the things of God % " 
 
 Fai. — " That is true ; but to gain good by such things 
 in our talk, should be that which we seek." 
 
 Talk. — " That is it that I said ; for to talk of such 
 things is of great use : for by this means a man may get 
 to know a fair share of things ; as how vain are the things 
 of earth ; and how good are the things that fail not. Then, 
 
Faithful saw a man whose name is Talkative, who said, " Friend, 
 to what place dost thou go? dost thou go to the blest land? " — 
 50. Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
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 Talkative. 51 
 
 by this, a man may learn by talk what it is to mourn for 
 sin, to have faith, to pray, to bear grief, or the like. By 
 this, too, a man may learn what it is that soothes, and 
 what are the high hopes set forth in the Word of the 
 Grace of God ; to his own peace." 
 
 "Well, then," said Faithful, "what is that one thing 
 that we shall at this time found our speech on % " 
 
 Talk. — " What you will -. I will talk of things not of 
 earth, or of things of earth ; things of life, or things of 
 grace ; things pure, or things of the world ; so that we but 
 gain good by it." 
 
 Now did Faithful think this strange ; so he came up to 
 Christian, and said to him in a soft voice, " What a brave 
 friend have Ave got ! Of a truth, this man will do well in 
 the way." 
 
 At this Christian gave a meek smile, and said, " This 
 man, whom you so take to, will cheat with this tongue of 
 his a score of them that know him not." 
 
 Fai. — " Do you know him then % " 
 
 Ghr. — " Know him ! Yes ; his name is Talkative ; he 
 dwells in our town. I wist not how you should be strange 
 to him." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, he seems to be a man of good looks." 
 
 Ghr. — " That is, to them that know him not through and 
 through : for he is best out of doors ; near home his looks 
 are as bad as you could find." 
 
 Fai. — " But I fain think you do but jest, as I saw you 
 smile." 
 
 Ghr. — " God grant not that I should jest in this case, or 
 that I should speak false of one. I will let you see him in 
 a clear light. This man cares not with whom he picks up, 
 or how he talks : as he talks now with you, so will he talk 
 
52 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 when he is on the bench, with ale by his side ; and the 
 more drink he has in his crown, the more of these things 
 he hath in his mouth." 
 
 Fai. — " Say you so % then am I wrong in my thoughts 
 of this man." 
 
 Ghr. — " Wrong ! You may be sure of it. He talks of 
 what it is to pray ; to mourn for sin ; of faith, and of the 
 new birth ; but he knows but how to talk of them. I have 
 been in his home, and have seen him both in and out of 
 doors, and I know what I say of him is the truth. His 
 house is as void of the fear of God as the white of an egg 
 is of taste. They pray not there, nor is there a sign of 
 grief for sin : yea, the brute, in his kind, serves God more 
 than he." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, my fHbnd, I am bound to trust you ; not 
 for that you say you know him, but in like way, for that, 
 like one who has the mind of Christ, you judge of men." 
 
 Chr. — " Had I known him no more than you I might, it 
 may be, have thought of him as at the first you did ; but 
 all these things, yea, and much more as bad, which I do 
 bring to mind, I can prove him to have the guilt of." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, I see that to say and to do are two things ; 
 and by and by I shall take more note of this." 
 
 Cha. — " They are two things, in sooth, and are no more 
 like than are the soul and flesh ; for, as the flesh void of 
 the soul is but a dead lump : so to say, if it stand loose, is 
 but a dead lump too. This Talkative does not know. He 
 thinks that to hear and to say will make a good man, and 
 thus he cheats his own soul. To hear is but to sow the 
 seed ; to talk is not full proof that fruit is deep in the 
 heart and life ; and let us feel sure that at the day of doom 
 men shall reap just as they have sown. It will not be said 
 
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Talkative. 53 
 
 then, 'Did you have faith'? 3 but 'Did you do or talk? 1 
 when they shall have their due meed." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, I was not so fond to be with him at first, 
 but am as sick of him now. What shall we do to be rid 
 of him?" 
 
 Ghr. — " Be led by me, and do as I bid you, and you 
 shall find that he will soon be sick of you, too, save God 
 shall touch his heart and turn it." 
 
 Fai. — " What would you have me to do ? " 
 
 Ghr. — " Why, go to him. and take up some grave theme 
 on the might of faith." 
 
 Then Faithful gave a step forth once more, and said to 
 Talkative, " Come, what cheer? how is it now ? " 
 
 Talk. — " Thank you, well ; I thought we should have 
 had a great deal of talk by this time." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, if you will, we will fall to it now ; and 
 since you left it with me to state the theme, let it be this : 
 How doth the grace of God that saves, show forth signs 
 when it is in the heart of man 1 " 
 
 Talk. — " I see, then, that our talk must be of the might 
 <X things. Well, it is a right good theme, and I shall try 
 to speak on it ; and take what I say in brief, thus : First, 
 where the grace of God is in the heart it makes one cry 
 out on sin. In the next place -" 
 
 Fai. — " Nay, hold ; let us dwell on one at once : I think 
 you should say in lieu of this, it shows by the way in 
 which the soul loathes its sin. A man may cry out on sin 
 to aid his own ends, but he fails to loathe it, save God 
 
 akes him do so. Some cry out on sin, just as the dame 
 pth cry out on her child in her lap, when she calls it bad 
 
 rl, and then falls to hug and kiss it." 
 Talk. — " You lie at the catch, I see." 
 
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54 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 Fai. — " No, not I ; I but try to set things right. But 
 what is the next thing by which you would prove to make 
 known the work of grace in the heart 1 " 
 
 Talk. — " To know much of the deep things of God." 
 
 Fai. — " This sign should have been first ; but, first or 
 last, it too is false : for to know, and know well, the deep 
 things in God's Word, may still be, and yet no work of 
 grace in the soul. Yea, if a man know all things he may 
 yet be naught ; and so, for this cause, be no child of God. 
 When Christ said, ' Do you know all these things ? ' and 
 those who heard him said, * Yes ' ; he did add, ' Blest are 
 ye if ye do them.' He doth not lay the grace in that one 
 knows, but in that one does them." 
 
 Talk, — " You lie at the catch, once more : this is not for 
 good." 
 
 Fai. — " Well, if you please, give one more sign how this 
 work of grace doth show where it is." 
 
 Talk. — " Not I, for I see we shall not be of one mind." 
 
 Fai.— U Well, if you will not, will you give me leave to 
 do it ? " 
 
 Talk. — " You may do just as you like." 
 
 Fai. " A work of grace in the soul doth show quite 
 clear to him that hath it or to those that stand by. To 
 him that hath it, thus : it gives him a deep sense of sin, of 
 the ill that dwells in him. This sight and sense of things 
 work in him grief and shame for sin ; he finds, too, brought 
 to view the Saviour of the world, and he feels he must 
 close with him for life ; at the which he finds he craves and 
 thirsts for a pure life, pure at heart, pure with his kin, and 
 pure in speech in the world : which in the broad sensj 
 doth teach him in his heart to hate his sin, to spurn v( 
 trom his home, and to shed his light in the world ; not by 
 
Talkative. 55 
 
 mere talk, as a false knave, or one with a glib tongue, may 
 do, but by the force of faith and love to the might of the 
 Word. And now, sir, as to these brief thoughts on the 
 work of grace, if you have aught to say, say on ; if not, 
 then give me leave to ask one thing more of you." 
 
 Talk. — " Nay, my part is not now to say aught, but to 
 hear ; let me hence hear what you have got to speak." 
 
 Fai. "It is this : do you in your heart feel this first 
 part of what I said of it ? and doth your life and walk bear 
 proof of the same % " 
 
 Then Talkative at first aid blush, but when he got 
 through this phase, thus he said : " You come now to what 
 one feels in his heart, to the soul, and God. But I pray, 
 will you tell me why you ask me such things % " 
 
 Fai. — " For that I saw you prone to talk, and for that I 
 knew not that you had aught else but vague views. More 
 than this, to tell you all the truth, I have heard of you that 
 you are a man whose faith lies in talk, and that what you 
 do gives the lie to what you say." 
 
 Talk. — " Since you are so quick to take up tales, and to 
 judge in so rash a way as you do, I would lief think that 
 you are some cross or dull mope of a man, not fit to hold 
 talk with ; and so, I take my leave." 
 
 Then came up Christian, and said to his friend, " I told 
 you how it would hap ; your words and his lusts could not 
 suit. He thought it best to leave you, than change his 
 life." 
 
 L Fai. — " But I am glad we had this brief talk ; it may 
 hap that he will think of it some time." 
 
 Chr. — " You did well to talk so plain to him as you did ; 
 r there is not much of this straight course with men in these 
 days. I wish that all men would deal with such as you 
 
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 have done : then should they have to change their ways, 
 or the guild of saints would be too hot for them." 
 
 Thus they went on and told of what they had seen by 
 the way, and so made that way light which would, were 
 not this the case, no doubt have been slow to them ; for 
 now they went through a wild. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 VANITY EAIK. 
 
 Now when they were got all but quite out of this wild, 
 Faithful by chance cast his eye back, and saw one come in 
 his wake, and he knew him. "Oh!" said Faithful to his 
 friend, " who comes yon ? " 
 
 Then Christian did look, and said, " It is my good friend 
 Evangelist." " Ay, and my good friend, too," said Faith- 
 ful, " for it was he that set me the way to the gate." 
 
 Then said Evangelist, " How did it fare with you, my 
 friends, since the time we last did part ? what have you 
 met with, and what has been your life 1 " 
 
 Then Christian and Faithful told him of all things that 
 did hap to them in the way ; and how, and with what toil, 
 they had got to that place. 
 
 " Right glad am I," said Evangelist, " not that you met 
 with straits, but that you have come safe through them, 
 and for that you have, in spite of some faults, kept in th 
 way to this day. The crown is in sight of you, and it 
 one that will not rust ; * so run that you may gain it.' 
 You are not yet out of the range of the foul fiend : let th 
 joy of the Lord be not lost sight of, and have a firm faith 
 in things not seen." 
 
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 Ta^n did Christian thank him for his sage words, but 
 told him at the same time, that they would have him speak 
 more to them for their help the rest of the way. So 
 Evangelist spoke thus : 
 
 " My sons, you have heard in the truth of God's Word, 
 that you must pass through sharp straits to reach the realm 
 of bliss ; for now as you see you are just out of this wild, 
 and hence you will ere long come to a town that you will 
 by and by see in front of you ; and in that town you will 
 be set round with foes, who will strain hard but they will kill 
 you : and be you sure that one or both of you must seal 
 the faith, which you hold, with blood. But when you are 
 come to the town, and shall find what I have said come to 
 pass, then think of your friend, and quit you both like 
 men." 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that, when they were got out 
 of the wild, they soon saw a town in front of them ; the 
 name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a 
 fair kept, known as Vanity Fair ; at this fair are all such 
 goods sold as lands, trades, realms, lusts, and gay things 
 of all sorts, as lives, blood, souls, gold, pearls, stones of 
 great worth, and what not. 
 
 Now, as. I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just 
 through this town where this huge fair is kept : and he 
 that will go there, and yet not go through this town, "must 
 needs go out of the world." The Lord of Lords, when* 
 here, went through this town to his own realm, and that, 
 too, on a day when a fair was held : yea, and as I think, 
 it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that sovght of 
 him to buy of his vain wares. But he had no iVund to the- 
 goods, and hence left the town, nor did he lay oui so much 
 as a mite on these wares**" 
 
Vanity Fair, 59 
 
 Now these folk, as I said, must needs go through this 
 fair. Well, so they did ; but lo, just as they got to the 
 fair, all the crowd in the fair rose up, and the town, too, 
 as it were, and made much noise and stir for that they 
 came there ; they, of course, spoke the tongue of Canaan ; 
 but they that kept the fair were the men of this world ; so 
 that, from end to end of the fair, they did seem strange 
 each to each. But that which made the crowd most laugh 
 was, that these men set quite light by all their wares : they 
 did not care so much as to look on them ; and, if they 
 sought for them to buy, they would stop their ears, and 
 cry, " Turn off mine eyes, lest they see vain things," and 
 look up, to show that their trade and wares were in the skies. 
 
 At last things came to a sad pass, which led to great 
 stir in the fair, so that all was noise and din, and law 
 was set at naught. Now was word soon brought to the 
 great one of the fair, who at once came down, and sent 
 some of his best friends to sift those men by whom the 
 fair was put in such a state. So the men were brought in 
 their sight. But they that were sent to sift them did not 
 think them to be aught than fools and mad, or else such 
 as came to put all things out of gear in the fair. Hence 
 they took them and beat them, and made them grime with 
 dirt, and then put them in the cage, that they might be 
 made a foul sight to all the men of the fair. But as the 
 Inen bore up well, and gave good words for bad, some men 
 m the fair, that were more just than the rest, sought to 
 check and chide the base sort for the vile acts done by 
 them to the men. One said, " That for aught they could 
 see, the men were mild, and of sound mind, and sought to 
 do harm to no one : and that there were some, that did 
 trade in their fair, that o~~V far more to be put in the 
 
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 cage, than the men to whom they had done such ill.* 
 Thus, as soon as hot words did pass on both sides, they 
 fell to some blows, and did harm each to each. Then 
 were these two poor men brought up once more, when a 
 charge was made that it was they who had got up the row 
 that had been made at the fair. But Christian and Faithful 
 bore the shame and the slur that was cast on them in so 
 calm and meek a way that it won to their side some of the 
 men of the fair. This put one part of the crowd in a still 
 more fierce rage, so that they were bent on the death of 
 these two men. 
 
 Then were they sent back to the cage once more, till it 
 was told what should be done with them. So they put 
 them in, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 
 
 Here, then, they once more brought to mind what ttiey 
 had heard from their true friend Evangelist, and were the 
 more strong in their way and woes by what he told them 
 would fall out to them. They, too, now sought to cheer 
 the heart of each, that whose lot it was to die that he 
 should have the best of it : hence each man did wish in 
 the depth of his soul that he might have the crown. 
 
 Then in due time they brought them forth to court, so 
 that they might meet their doom. The name of the judge 
 was Lord Hate-good ; their plaint was "that they had made 
 broils and feuds in the town, and had won some to their 
 own most vile views, in scorn of the law of their prince.' 
 
 Then Faithful said " that he did but spurn that whic 
 had set up in face of Him that is the Most High. Andj 
 said he, " as for broils, I make none, as I am a man 
 peace ; those that were won to us were won by their vie 
 of our truth and pure lives- and they are but gone from the? 
 worst to the best." 
 
Then Superstition said: "My lord, I know not much of this 
 man; but he is a most vile knave " — Fage 61. Pilgrim's Progre^ 
 
Vanity Fair. 61 
 
 Then was it made known that they that had aught to 
 say for their lord the king, to prove the guilt of him at the 
 bar, should at once come forth and give in their proof. 
 So there came in three men, to wit, Envy, Superstition, 
 and Pickthank. Then stood forth Envy and said in this 
 strain : " My lord, this man, in spite of his fair name, is 
 one of the most vile men in our land. He does all that he 
 can to fill all men with some of his wild views, which tend 
 to the bane of our realm, and which he for the most part 
 calls ' grounds of faith and a pure life.' And in chief I 
 heard him once say that the faith of Christ and the laws 
 of our town of Vanity could not be at one, as they wei'C 
 foes each to each." 
 
 Then did they call Superstition, and sware him : so he 
 said : " My lord, I know not much of this man, nor do I 
 care to know more of him ; but he is a most vile knave ; 
 I heard him say that our faith was naught, and such by 
 which no man could please God. Which words of his, 
 my lord, you quite well know what they mean, to wit, that 
 we still work in vain, are yet in our sins, and at last shall 
 be lost. And this is that which I have to say." 
 
 Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew 
 in the cause of their lord the king to the hurt of the rogue 
 at the bar. 
 
 Pick. — " My lord, and you great folk all, this wight I 
 have known of a long time, and have heard him speak 
 things that ought not to be said ; for he did rail on our great 
 rince, Beelzebub, and spoke ill of his firm friends ; and he 
 hath said, too, that if all men were of his mind, if so be there 
 is not one of these great men should from that time forth 
 3tay in this town. More than this, he hath not felt dread 
 to rail on you, my lord, who are now sent to be his judge." 
 
62 The Pilgrim? s Progress. 
 
 When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge spoke 
 to the man at the bar, and said, " Thou vile, base wretch, 
 hast thou heard what those just and true men have sworn 
 to thy bane % " 
 
 Fai. — " I say then, as a set off to what Mr. Envy hath 
 said, I spoke not a word but this, ' That what rule, or laws, 
 or rights, or men, are flat down on the Word of God, are 
 foes to the faith of Christ.' 
 
 " As to the next, to wit, Mr. Superstition, and his charge 
 to my hurt, I said but this, ' That to serve God one needs 
 a faith from on high ; but there can be no faith from on 
 high void of the will of God made known from the same 
 source. Hence, all that is thrust on us that does not 
 square with this will of God, is but of man's faith ; which 
 faith will not serve the life that is to come.' 
 
 " As to what Mr. Pickthank hath said, ' That the prince 
 of this town, with all the roughs, his slaves, are more fit 
 for one in hell than in this town and land '; and so the 
 Lord be good to me." 
 
 Then the judge said to those who were to bind or loose 
 him from the charge : " Ye who serve here to weigh this 
 case, you see this man of whom so great a din hath been 
 made in this town. It doth lie now on your souls to hang 
 him, or save his life ; but yet I think meet to teach you a 
 few points of our law. 
 
 " There was an act made in the days of Pharaoh the ^ 
 great, friend to our prince, that, lest those of a wrong faithJl 
 should spread and grow too strong for him, their maleaH 
 should be thrown in the stream. There was, in like way^B 
 an act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the great, who,* 
 too, did serve him, that such as would not fall down and 
 laud the form he had set up, should be flung in a pit of 
 
Then stood forth Envy and said: "My lord, this man in spite 
 of his fair name, is one of the most vile men in our land. " — 
 61. Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
Vanity Pair. 63 
 
 fire. Now the pith of these laws this rogue has set at 
 naught, not in mere thought but in word and deed as well. 
 Twice, nay thrice, he speaks of our creed as a thing of 
 naught ; and for this, on his own words, he needs must 
 die the death." 
 
 Then went out those who had to weigh the case, whose 
 names were Mr. Blind-man, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. 
 Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. 
 Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, and Mr. 
 Implacable ; who each one gave in his voice to Faithful's 
 hurt, in his own mind ; and then meant to make known 
 his doom in face of the judge. And Mr. Blindman, the 
 chief, said, " I see, most plain, that this man is a foe ; let 
 as at once doom him to death. And so they did. The 
 judge then put on the black cap, and said, " That he should 
 be led from the place where he was to the place from 
 whence he came, and there to be put to the worst death 
 that could be thought off." 
 
 They then brought him out to do with him as the law 
 set forth : and first they whipt him ; then they did pelt 
 him with stones ; and, last of all, they burnt him to dust at 
 the stake. Thus came Faithful to his end. 
 
 Now I saw that there stood in the rear of the crowd a 
 state car, with two steeds, that did wait for Faithful ; who, 
 as soon as his foes had got rid of him, was caught up in it 
 and straight sent off through the clouds, with sound of 
 trump, the most near way to the Celestial Gate. But as 
 for Christian, he Avas put back to jail ; so there he lay for 
 a space : but He that rules all things, in whose hand was 
 the might of their rage, so wrought it that Christian, fotf 
 that time, got free from them and went his way ? 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 CHEISTIAN Als T D HOPEFUL. 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that Christian went not forth 
 with none to cheer him ; for there was one whose name 
 was Hopeful, who set out with him, and made a grave pact 
 that he would be his friend. 
 
 So I saw that when they were just got out of the fair 
 they came up with one that had gone on in front of them, 
 whose name was By-ends. He told them that he came 
 from the town of Fair-speech, and was bound for the 
 Celestial City ; but he told them not his name. 
 
 Ghr. — " Pray, sir, what may I call you 1 " 
 
 By. — " I know not you, nor you me : if you mean to go 
 this way, I shall be glad to go with you : if not, I must 
 take things as they come." 
 
 Then Christian stept on one side to his friend Hopeful, 
 and said, " It runs in my mind that this is one By-ends, 
 of Fair-speech, and if it be he, we have as keen a knave in 
 our midst as dwells in all these parts." Then said Hope- 
 ful, " Ask him ; I think he should not blush at his name." 
 So Christian came up with him once more, and said, " Sir, 
 is not your name Mr. By-ends, of Fair-speech % " 
 
 By. — " This is not my name ; but, in sooth, it is a name 
 I got in scorn from some that do not like me." 
 
 Ghr. — " I thought, in sooth, that you were the man that 
 I had heard of; and, to tell you what I think, I fear this 
 name suits you more than you would wish we should think 
 it doth." 
 
 By. — " Well, if you will thus think, I durst not help it: 
 
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 you shall find me a fair man, if you will make me one of 
 you." 
 
 Chr. — " If you will go with us, you must go in the teeth 
 of wind and tide ; you must, in like wise, own Faith in his 
 rags, as well as when in his sheen shoes ; and stand by 
 him, too, when bound in chains, as well as when he walks 
 the streets with praise." 
 
 By. — " You must not curb my faith, nor lord it in this 
 way : leave me free to think, and let me go with you." 
 
 Chr. — " Not a step more, save you will do in what I 
 shall speak as we." 
 
 Then said By-ends, " I shall not cast off my old views, 
 since they bring no harm, and are of use. If I may not 
 go with you, I must do as I did ere you came up with me, 
 that is, go on with no one, till some will come on who will 
 be glad to meet me." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that Christian and Hopeful left 
 him, and went on in front of him : but one of them did 
 chance to look back, and saw three men in the wake of 
 Mr. By-ends, and lo, as they came up with him, he made 
 them quite a low bow. The men's names were Mr. Hold- 
 the-world, Mr. Money-love, and Mr. Save-all ; men that 
 Mr. By-ends had erst known ; for when boys they were 
 mates at school, and were taught by one Mr. Gripeman, 
 who keeps a school in Love-gain, which is a large town in 
 the shire of Coveting, in the north. 
 
 Well, when they, as I said, did greet in turn, Mr. Money- ' 
 love said to Mr. By-ends, " Who are they on the road right 
 in front of us 1 " 
 
 By. — " They are a pair from a land far off, that, in their 
 mode, are bent on a long route." 
 
 Money. — " Ah ! why did they not stay ; that we might 
 
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 have gone on with them 1 for they, and we, and you, sir, I 
 hope, are all bent on the same road." 
 
 By. — " Why, they, in their fierce mood, think that they 
 are bound to rush on their way at all times ; while I wait 
 for wind and tide. They like to risk all for God at a clap ; 
 while I like to seize all means to make safe my life and 
 lands. They are for Faith when in rags and scorn ; but I 
 am for him when he walks in his sheen shoes in the sun, 
 and with praise." 
 
 Hold. — " Ay, and hold you there still, good Mr. By-ends: 
 for my part I can count him but a fool, that with the 
 means to keep what he has, he shall be so lack of sense as 
 to lose it. For my part, I like that faith best that will 
 stand with the pledge of God's good gifts to us. Abraham 
 and Solomon grew rich in faith : and Job says that a good 
 man ' shall lay up gold as dust.' But he must not be such 
 as the men in front of us, if they be as .you have said of 
 them." 
 
 Save. — " I think that we are all of one mind in this 
 thing ; and hence there need no more words be said of it." 
 
 Mr. By-ends and his friends did lag and keep back, that 
 Christian and Hopeful might go on in front of them. 
 
 Then Christian and Hopeful went till they came to a 
 nice plain known as Ease ; which did please them much : 
 but that plain was but strait, so they were soon got through 
 it. Now at the far side of that plain was a small hill, 
 which went by the name of Lucre, and in that hill a gold 
 mine, which some of them that had been that way had 
 gone on one side to see ; but, as they got too near the 
 brink of the pit, the ground, as it was not sound, broke 
 when they trod on it, and they were slain. 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that a short way off the road, 
 
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 Tlie Pilgriwh Progress. 
 
 nigh to the gold mine, stood Demas, a man of fair looks, 
 to call to such as went that way to come and see ; who 
 said to Christian and his friend, " Ho ! turn hence on this 
 side, and I will show you a thing. Here is a gold mine, 
 and some that dig in it for wealth : if you will come, with 
 
 DEMAS TEMPTS CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL. 
 
 slight pains you may gain a rich store for your use." 
 
 Then Christian did call to Demas, and said, " Is not the 
 
 way rife with risks % Hath it not let some in their way ? " 
 Bern. — " Not so much so, save to those that take no 
 
 care." But a blush came on his face as he spake. 
 
Doubting Castle and Giant Despair* 69 
 
 Then said Christian to Hopeful, " Let us not stir a step, 
 but still keep on our way." 
 
 By this time By-ends and those who were with him came 
 once more in sight, and they, at the first beck, went straight 
 to Demas. Now, that they fell in the pit, as they stood 
 on the brink of it, or that they went down to dig, or that 
 they lost their breath at the base by the damps that, as a 
 rule, rise from it, of these things I am not sure ; but this I 
 saw, that from that time forth they were not seen once 
 more in the way. Which strange sight gave them cause 
 for grave talk. 
 
 CHAPTEE XV. 
 
 DOUBTING CASTLE AND GIANT DESPAIE. 
 
 I SAW then, that they went on their way to a fair stream. 
 Here then Christian and his friend did walk with great joy. 
 They drank, too, of the stream, which was sweet to taste, 
 and like balm to their faint hearts. More than this, on the 
 banks of this stream, on each side, were green trees with 
 all kinds of fruit : and the leaves they ate to ward off ills 
 that come of too much food and heat of blood, while on 
 the way. On each side of the stream was a mead, bright 
 with white plants ; and it was green all the year long. In 
 this mead they lay down and slept. When they did wake 
 they felt a wish to go on, and set out. Now the way front 
 the stream was rough, and their feet soft, for that thej 
 came a long road : so the souls of the men were sad, from 
 the state of the way. Now, not far in front of them, there 
 was on the left hand of the^oad a mead, and a stile to get 
 
70 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 riglit to it : and that mead is known as By-path Meadow. 
 Then said Christian to his friend, " If this mead doth lie 
 close by the side of our way, let us go straight to it." Then 
 said Christian to his friends, " If this mead doth lie close by 
 'the side of our way, let us go straight to it." Then he went 
 to the stile to see, and lo, a path lay close by the way on 
 the far offside of the fence. " It is just as I wish," said 
 Christian ; " come, good Hopeful, and let us cross to it." 
 
 Hope. — " But how if this path should lead us out of the 
 way % " 
 
 " That is not like to be," said the next. " Look, doth it 
 not go straight on by the side of the way % " So Hopeful, 
 when he thought on what his friend said, went in his steps, 
 and did cross the stile ; and at the same time, while they 
 cast their eyes in front of them, they saw a man that did 
 walk as they did, and his name was Vain-Confidence : so 
 they did call to him, and ask him to what place that way 
 led. He said, " To the Celestial Gate." " Look," said 
 Christian, " did not I tell you so % by this you may see we 
 are right." So they went in his wake, and he went in front 
 of them. But, lo, the night came on, and it grew quite 
 dark ; so that they that were in the rear lost the sight of 
 him that went in front. 
 
 He then that went in front, as he did not see the way 
 fclear, fell in a deep pit, which was there made by the 
 'prince of those grounds to catch such vain fools with the 
 rest, and was torn in bits by his fall. 
 
 Now Christian and his friend heard him fall : so they did 
 call to know the cause : but there was none to speak. 
 
 Then Hopeful gave a deep groan, and said, " Oh, that I 
 bad kept on my way ! " 
 
 Chr. — " Good friend, do not feel hurt. I grieve I have 
 
This is Vain Confidence, whom Christian and Hopeful saw in. 
 Uua way as they did walk.— Page 70 Pilgrim?* Frcgrmu 
 

Doubting Castle and Giant Despair. 71 
 
 brought thee out of the way, and that I have put thee in 
 no slight strait ; pray, my friend, let this pass ; I did not 
 do it of a bad will." 
 
 Hope. — " Be of 'good cheer, my friend, for I give thee 
 shrift ; and trust, too, this shall be for our good." 
 
 Then, so as to cheer them, they heard the voice of one 
 that said, '•' Let thine heart be set on the high road ; and 
 the way that thou didst go turn once more." But by this 
 time the way that they should go back was rife with risk. 
 Then I thought that we get more quick out of the way 
 when we are in it, than in it when we are out. 
 
 Nor could they, with all the skill they had, get once 
 more to the stile that night. For which cause, as they at 
 last did light neath a slight shed, they sat down there till 
 day broke : but as they did tire they fell to sleep. Now 
 there was not far from the place where they lay a fort, 
 known as Doubting Castle, and he who kept it was Giant 
 Despair : and it was on his grounds that they now slept. 
 Hence, as he got up at dawn, and did walk up and down 
 in his fields, he caught Christian and Hopeful in sound 
 sleep on his grounds. They told him they were poor 
 wights, and that they had lost their way. Then said the 
 Giant, " You have this night come where you should not; 
 you did tramp in, and lie on, my grounds, and so you 
 must go hence with me." So they were made to go, for 
 that he had more strength than they. They, too, had but 
 few words to say, for they knew they were in a fault. The 
 Giant hence drove them in front of him, and put them in 
 his fort, in a dank, dark cell, that was foul and stunk to 
 the souls of these two men. Here then they lay for full 
 four days, and had not one bit of bread, or drop of drink, 
 or light, or one to ask how they did : they were, hence, 
 
7.2 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 here in bad case, and were far from friends and all who 
 knew them. Now in this place Christian had more than 
 his own share of grief, for it was through his bad words that 
 they were brought to such dire bale. 
 
 Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffi- 
 dence : so when he was gone to bed he told his wife what 
 he had done. Then he did ask her, too, what he had best 
 do more to them. Then she said to him that when he got 
 up in the morn he should beat them, and show no ruth. 
 So when he rose he gets him a huge stick of crab, and goes 
 down to the cell to them, and falls on them and beats them 
 in such sort that they could do naught to ward off his 
 blows, or to turn them on the floor. This done, he goes 
 off and leaves them there to soothe each one his friend, 
 and to mourn their grief. The next night, she spoke with 
 her lord more as to their case, and when she found that 
 they were not dead, did urge him to tell them to take their 
 own lives. So when morn was come he told them that 
 since they were not like to come out of that place, their 
 best way would be at once to put an end to their lives, 
 with knife, rope, or drug. But they did pray him to let 
 them go ; with that he gave a frown on them, ran at them, 
 and had no doubt made an end of them with his own hand, 
 but that he fell in one of his fits. From which cause he 
 went off, and left them to think what to do. Then did 
 the men talk of the best course to take ; and thus they 
 spoke : 
 
 " Friend," said Christian, " what shall we do % The life 
 that we now live is fraught with ill : for my part,T know 
 not if it be best to live thus, or die out of hand : the grave 
 has more ease for me than this cell." 
 
 Hope*—" Of a truth, our state is most dread, and death 
 
Doubting Castle and Giant Despair. 73 
 
 would be more of a boon to me than thus hence to stay : 
 but let us not take our own lives." With these words 
 Hopeful then did soothe the mind of his friend : so they 
 did stay each with each in the dark that day, in their sad 
 and drear plight. 
 
 Well, as dusk came on the Giant goes down to the cell 
 once more, to see if those he held bound there had done as 
 he had bid them : but when he came there he found they 
 still did live, at which he fell in a great rage, and told them 
 that, as he saw they had lent a deaf ear to what he said, 
 it should be worse for them than if they had not been 
 born. 
 
 At this they shook with dread, and I think that Chris- 
 tian fell in a swoon ; but as he came round once more, they 
 took up the same strain of speech as to the Giant's words, 
 and if it were best give heed to them or no. Now Chris- 
 tian once more did seem to wish to yield, but Hopeful 
 made his next speech in this wise : 
 
 " My friend," said he, " dost thou not know how brave 
 thou hast been in times past 1 The foul fiend could not 
 crush thee ; nor could all that thou didst hear, or see, or 
 feel in the Vale of the Shade of Death ; what wear and 
 tear, grief and fright, hast thou erst gone through, and art 
 thou naught but fears % Thou dost see that I am in the 
 cell with thee, and I am a far more weak man to look at 
 than thou art : in like way, this Giant did wound me as 
 well as thee, and hath, too, cut off the bread and drink 
 from my mouth, and with thee I mourn void of the light. 
 But let us try and grow more strong : call to mind how 
 thou didst play the man at Vanity Fair, and wast not 
 made blench at the chain or cage, nor yet at fierce d^ath; 
 for which cause let us, at least to shun the shame <;hat 
 
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 looks not well for a child of God to be found in, bear up 
 with calm strength as well as we can." 
 
 Now night had come once more, and his wife spoke to 
 him of the men, and sought to know if they had done as 
 he had told them. To which he said, " They are stout 
 rogues ; they choose the more to bear all hard things than 
 to put an end to their lives." Then said she, " Take them 
 to the garth next day, and show them the bones and skulls 
 of those that thou hast put to death, and make them think 
 thou wilt tear them in shreds, as thou hast done to folk 
 like to them." 
 
 So when the morn was come the Giant takes them to 
 the garth, and shows them as his wife had bade him : 
 " These," said he, " were wights, as you are, once, and 
 they trod on my ground, as you have done ; and when I 
 thought fit I tore them in bits, and so in the space of ten 
 days I will do you : go, get you down to your den once 
 more." And with that he beat them all the way to the 
 place. They lay for this cause all day in a sad state, just 
 as they had done. Now, when night was come, and when 
 Mrs. Diffidence and her spouse the Giant were got to bed, 
 they once more spoke of the men ; and, with this, the Giant 
 thought it strange that he could not by his blows or words 
 bring them to an end. And with that his wife said, " I 
 fear that they live in hopes that some will come to set 
 them free, or that they have things to pick locks with them, 
 by the means of which they hope to scape." " And dost 
 thou say so, my dear ? " said the Giant ; " I will hence 
 search them in the morn." 
 
 Well, in the depth of night they strove hard to pray, 
 and held it up till just break of day. 
 
 Now, not long ere it was day, good Christian, as one 
 
76 Th> PilgriwJs Progress. 
 
 half wild, brake out In this hot speech : " What a fool," 
 quoth he, " am I, thus to lie in a foul den when I may as 
 well walk in the free air : I have a key in my breast known 
 as Promise, that will, I feel sure, pick each lock in Doubt- 
 ing Castle." Then said Hopeful, " That is good news, my 
 friend ; pluck it out of thy breast and try." 
 
 Then Christian took it out of his breast, and did try at 
 the cell door, whose bolt as he did turn the key gave back, 
 and the door flew back with ease, and Christian and Hope- 
 ful both came out. Then he went to the front door that 
 leads to the yard of the fort, and with this key did ope 
 that door in like way. Then he went to the brass gate 
 (for that he must ope too), but that lock he had hard work 
 to move ; yet did the key pick it. Then they thrust wide 
 the gate to make their scape with speed. But that gate as 
 it went back did creak so, that it woke Giant Despair, who, 
 as he rose in haste to go in search of the men, felt his limbs 
 to fail, for his fits took him once more, so that he could by 
 no means go in their track. Then they went on, and came 
 to the King's high road once more, and so were safe, for 
 that they were out of his grounds. 
 
 Now, when they had got clear of the stile, they thought 
 in their minds what they should do at that stile, to keep 
 those that should come in their wake from the fell hands 
 if Giant Despair. So their built there a pile and wrote on 
 the side of it these words : " To cross this stile is the way 
 to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair, who 
 spurns the King of the good land, and seeks to kill such 
 as serve him." 
 
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 CHAPTEE XVI. 
 
 THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAIN'S. 
 
 They went then till they came to the Delectable 
 Mountains, which mounts the Lord of that hill doth own of 
 whom we erst did speak : so they went up to the mounts, 
 to see the plants, trees rife with fruit, the vines and founts ; 
 where, too, they drank, did wash, and eat of the grapes till 
 no gust was left for more. Now there were on the top of 
 these mounts, Shepherds that fed their flocks, and they 
 stood by the side of the high road. Christian and Hope- 
 ful then went to them, and while they leant on their 
 staves (as is the case with wights who tire when they stand 
 to talk with folk by the way), they said, " Whose Delecta- 
 ble Mountains are these % and whose be the sheep that fed 
 on them % " 
 
 Shep. — " These mounts are Immanuel's Land, and they 
 can be seen from this town : and the sheep in like way are 
 his, and he laid down his life for them." 
 
 Chr.—" Is this the way to the Celestial City 1 " 
 
 Shep. — " You are just in your way." 
 
 I saw, too, in my dream that when the Shepherds saw 
 that they were men on the road, they in like way did ask 
 them things, to which they spoke, as was their wont : as, 
 " Whence came you % and how got you in the way % and 
 by what means have you so held on in it % for but few of 
 them that set out to come hence do show their face on 
 these mounts." But when the Shepherds heard their 
 speech, which did please them, they gave them looks of 
 
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 love, and said, " Good come with thee to the Mounts of 
 Joy." 
 
 The Shepherds, I say, whose names were Knowledge, 
 Experience, Watchful, and Sincere, took them by the 
 hand and had them to their tents, and made them eat and 
 drink of that which was there at the time. They said, too, 
 " We would that you should stay here a short time, to get 
 known to us, and yet more to cheer your heart with the 
 good of these Mounts of Joy." They told them that they 
 would much like to stay ; and so they went to their rest 
 that night, for that it was so late, 
 
 Then I saw in my dream, that in the morn the Shepherds 
 did call on Christian and Hopeful to walk with them on 
 the mounts. Then said the Shepherds, each to his friend, 
 " Shall we show these wights with staves some strange 
 sights ? " So they had them first to the top of a hill, 
 known as Error, and bid them look down to the base. So 
 Christian and Hopeful did look down, and saw at the foot 
 a lot of men rent all to bits, by a fall that they had from 
 the top. Then said Christian, " What doth this mean 1 " 
 The Shepherds said, " Have you not heard of them that 
 were made to err, in. that they gave heed to Hymeneus and 
 Philetus, who held not the faith that the dead shall rise 
 from the grave ] Those that you see lie rent in bits at the 
 base of this mount are they ; and they have lain to this day 
 on the ground as you see, so that those who come this way 
 may take heed how they climb too high, or how they come 
 too near the brink of this mount." 
 
 Then I saw that they had them to the top of the next 
 mount, and the name of that is Caution, and bid them look 
 as far off as they could ; which when they did they saw, a& 
 they thought, a group of men that did walk up and down 
 
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 79 
 
 through the tombs that were there : and they saw that the 
 men were blind, for that they fell at times on the tombs, 
 and for that they could not get out from the midst of them. 
 Then said Christian, " What means this ? " 
 
 The Shepherds then said, " Did you not see, a short way 
 
 THE HILL ERROR. 
 
 uown these mounts, a stile that leads to a mead on the 
 left hand of this way % " Tiiey said, " Yes.'* Then said 
 the Shepherds, " From that stile there goes a path that 
 leads straight to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant 
 Despair^ and these men (as he did point to them in the 
 
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 midst of the tombs) came once on the way, as you do now 
 — ay, till they came to that same stile ! And as they found 
 the right way was rough in that place, they chose to go 
 out of it to that mead, and there were caught by Giant 
 Despair and shut up in Doubting Castle ; where, when 
 they had a while been kept in a cell, he at last did put out 
 their eyes, and led them in the thick of those tombs, where 
 he has left them to stray till this day : that the words of 
 the Wise Man might be brought to pass, ' He that strays 
 out of the way of truth shall dwell in the homes of the 
 dead.' ' Then did Christian and Hopeful look each on 
 each, while tears came from their eyes ; but yet said they 
 not a word to the Shepherds. 
 
 Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them 
 to one more place, in a steep, where was a door in the side 
 of a hill ; and they flung wide the door and bid them look 
 in. They did look in, hence, and saw that it was dark and 
 full of smoke ; they thought, too, that they heard a hoarse 
 noise, as of fire, and a cry of some in pain. Then said 
 Christian, " What means this % " The Shepherds told them, 
 " This is a nigh way to Hell ; a way that such as seem to 
 be what they are not go in at : to wit, such as sell the right 
 they had at birth, with Esau ; such as sell their Lord, with 
 Judas ; such as speak ill of God's Word, with Alexander ; 
 and that lie and shift, with Ananias, and Sapphira his 
 wife." 
 
 Then said Hopeful to the Shepherds, " I see that these 
 had on them, each one, a show of the road, as we have 
 now, had they not % " 
 
 Shep. — " Yes, and held it a long time too." 
 
 Hope. — " How far might they go on in the way, in their 
 days, since they, in spite of this, were thus cast off ? " 
 
The Enchanted Ground. 81 
 
 Shep. — " Some yon, and some not so far as these 
 mounts." 
 
 By this time Christian and Hopeful had a wish to go 
 forth, and the Shepherds meant that they should : so they 
 sped side by side till they got nigh the end of the mounts. 
 Then said the Shepherds, each to his friend, " Let us here 
 show these wights the gates of the Celestial City, if they 
 have skill to look through our kind of glass." The men 
 chen did like the hint : so they had them to the top of a 
 high hill, the name of which was Clear, and gave them 
 die glass to look. 
 
 Then did they try to look, but the thought of that last 
 thing that the Shepherds had shown them made their 
 hands shake ; by means of which let they could not look 
 well through the glass ; yet they thought they saw a thing 
 like the gate, and, in like way, some of the sheen of the 
 place. 
 
 Just ere they set out, one of the Shepherds gave them 
 a note of the way ; the next bid them take heed of such as 
 fawn; the third bid them take heed that they slept not on 
 ground that had a spell ; and the fourth bid them God 
 speed. So I did wake from my dream. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE ENCHANTED GBOUND AND THE WAY DOWN TO IT. 
 
 And I slept and dreamt once more, and saw the same 
 two wights go down the mounts, by the high road that led 
 to the town. Now nigh the base of these mounts, on the 
 left hand, lies the land of Conceit, from which land there 
 
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 comes, right in the way in which the men trod, a small 
 lane with twists and turns. Here, then, they met with a 
 brisk lad that came out of that land, and his name was 
 Ignorance. So Christian would know from what parts he 
 came, and whence he was bound. 
 
 Ignor. — " Sir, I was born in the land that lies off there 
 a short way on the left hand, and I am bound to the 
 Celestial City." 
 
 Chr. — " But how do you think to get in at the gate % 
 for you may find some let there." 
 
 " As some good folk do," said he. 
 
 Chr. — " But what have you to show at that gate, that 
 khe gate should be flung wide to you % " 
 
 Ignor. — " I know my Lord's will, and have led a good 
 life ; I pay each man his own ; I pray, fast, pay tithes, and give 
 alms ; and have left my land for the place to which I. go." 
 
 Chr. — " But thou didst not come in at the Wicket-g-ate 
 that is at the head of this way ; thou didst come in here 
 through that same lane with the twists and turns ; and 
 hence, I fear, in spite of what thou dost think of thy right, 
 when the last day shall come, thou wilt have laid to thy 
 charge that thou art a thief, in lieu of a free pass to the 
 town." 
 
 Ignor. — " Sirs, ye be not known to me in the least ; I 
 know you not ; you be led by the faith of your land, and I 
 will be led by the faith of mine. I hope all will be well. 
 And as for the gate that you talk of, all the world knows 
 that that is a great way off our land. I do not think that 
 one man in all our parts doth so much as know the way to 
 it ; nor need they care if they do or no ; since we have, as 
 you see, a fine, gay, green lane, that comes down from our 
 land, the next road that leads to i%e way." 
 
Then Christian niet with a brisk lad who said his narne was 
 Ignorance. — Rage 82. Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
The Enchanted Ground. 83 
 
 When Christian saw that the man was wise in his own 
 eyes, he said to Hopeful in a soft voice, " ' There is more 
 hope of a fool than of him ' "; and said, in like way, 
 " * When he that is a fool walks by the way, his sense fails 
 him, and he saith to each one that he is a fool.' What '. 
 shall we talk more with him, or move on now, and so leave 
 him to think of what he hath erst heard, and then stop 
 once more for him in a while, and see if by slow steps we 
 can do aught of good to him % " Then said Hopeful, " It 
 is not good, I think, to say so to him all at once ; let us 
 pass him by, if you will, and talk to him by and by, just 
 as he has ' strength to bear it.' " 
 
 So they both went on, and Ignorance came in their track. 
 Now, when they had left him a short way, they came to 
 a dark lane, where they met a man whom some fiends had 
 bound with strong cords, and took back to the door that 
 they saw on the side of the hill. Now good Christian 
 could not help but shake, and so did Hopeful, who was 
 with him ; yet, as the fiends led off the man, Christian did 
 look to see if he knew him ; and he thought it might be 
 one Turnaway, that dwelt in the town of Apostacy. But 
 he did not well see his face, for he did hang his head like 
 a thief that is found. But when he had gone past, Hope- 
 ful gave a look at him, and saw on his back a card, with 
 these words, " Vile cheat, that has left his faith." 
 
 So they went on, and Ignorance went in their track, 
 They went till they came at a place where they saw a way 
 put right in their way, and did seem, at the same time, to 
 lie as straight as the way which they should go. And 
 here they knew not which of the two to take, for both did 
 seem straight in front of them : hence they stood to think. 
 And as they thought of the way,> lr>. a, man black of flesh, 
 
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 but clad with a light robe, came to them, and did ask them 
 why they stood there. They said they were bound to the 
 Celestial City, but knew not which of these ways to take. 
 " Go with me," said the man ; " it is to that place I am 
 bent." So they went with him in the way that but now 
 came to the road, which each step they took did turn and 
 turn them so far from the town that they sought to go 
 to, that in a short time their heads did turn off from it ; 
 yet they went with him. But by and by, ere they well 
 knew of it, he led theii both in the bounds of a net, in 
 which they were both so caught that they knew not what 
 to do ; and with that the white robe fell off the black man's 
 back : then they saw where they were. For which cause 
 there they lay in tears some time, for they could not get 
 their limbs out. 
 
 Then said Christian to his friend, "Now do I see that 1 
 am wrong. Did not the Shepherds bid us take heed of 
 the Flatterer 1 As are the words of the Wise Man, so we 
 have found it this day, ' A man that fawns on his friend 
 spreads a net for his feet.' " 
 
 Hope. — " They, too, gave us some notes as to the way, 
 so that we may be the more sure to find it ; but in that we 
 have not thought to read." 
 
 Thus they lay in sad plight in the net. At last they 
 saw a Bright One come nigh to where they were, with a 
 whip of small cords in his hand. When he was come to 
 the place where they were, he did ask them whence they 
 came, and what they did there 1 They told him they were 
 poor wights bound to Zion, but were led out of their way 
 by a black man clad in white, " who bid us," said they, 
 " go with him, for he was bound to that place too." Then 
 said he with the whip, " It is one who fawns, a false guide 
 
Then did Hopeful tell Christian his experience, and Christian 
 said: < c Let us not sleep, as some do; but let us watch and rosf." 
 —Page 86. Pilgrim's Program 
 
The Enchanted Ground. 85 
 
 who wore the garb of a sprite of light." So he rent the 
 net, and let the men out. Then said he to them, " Come 
 with me, that I may set you in your way once more " : so 
 he led them back to the way they had left to go with the 
 Flatterer. Then he did ask them and said, " Where did 
 you lie the last night 1 " They said, " With the Shepherds 
 on the Mounts of Joy." He did ask, then, if they had not 
 of those men a note as a guide for the way. They said, 
 " Yes." " But did you not," said he, " when you were at 
 a stand, pluck out and read your note 1 " Quoth they, 
 " No." He did ask them, " Why % " They said, " They 
 did not think of it." He would know, too, " If the Shep- 
 herds did not bid them take heed of the Flatterer % " They 
 said, "Yes; but we thought not," said they, "that this 
 man of fine speech had been he." 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that he told them to lie down ; 
 which when they did, he gave them sore stripes, to teach 
 them the good way in which they should walk. This 
 done, he bids them go on their way, and take good heed 
 to the next hints of the Shepherds. 
 
 I then saw in my dream, that they went on till they 
 came to a land whose air did tend to make one sleep. And 
 here Hopeful grew quite dull and nigh fell to sleep : for 
 which cause he said to Christian : " I do now grow so dull 
 that I can scarce hold ope mine eyes ; let us lie down here 
 and take one nap." 
 
 " By no means," said Christian, " lest if we sleep we wake 
 not more." 
 
 i Hope. — " Why, my friend? Sleep is sweet to the man 
 that toils : it may give us strength if we take a nap." 
 
 Chr. — ■" Do you not know that one of the Shepherds 
 bid us take heed of the Enchanted Ground ? He meant 
 
86 
 
 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 by that, that we should take care and not go to sleep. 
 ' Let us not sleep, as do some ; Sut let us watch and be of 
 sound mind.' ' 
 
 Hope. — " I know I am in fault ; and, had not you beeD 
 with me here, I had gone to sleep and run the risk of 
 
 HOPEFUL TELLS CHRISTIAN HIS EXPERIENCE. 
 
 death. I see it is true that the wise man saith, ' Two are 
 more good than one.' Up to this time thou hast been my 
 ruth ; and thou shalt ' have a good meed for thy pains.' ' 
 
 I saw then in my dream, that Hopeful gave a look back, 
 and saw Ignorance, whom they had left in their wake, 
 come in their track. " Look," said he to Christian, " how 
 far yon youth doth lag in the rear." 
 
" Come on, nian, why do you stay back so? " said Christian' 
 "I like to walk alone," said Ipnorance. — Page 87. 
 
 Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
The Zand of Beulah. 87 
 
 Chr.—~" Ay, a}^ I see him : lie cares not to be with us." 
 
 Hope. — " But I trow it would not have hurt him had he 
 kept pace with us to this time." 
 
 Ghr. — " That is true : but I wot he doth not think so." 
 
 Hope. — " That I think he doth : but, be it so or no, let 
 us wait for him." So they did. 
 
 Then Christian did call to him, " Come you on, man : 
 why do you stay back so % " 
 
 Ignor. — " I like to walk in this lone way ; ay, more a 
 great deal than with folk : that is, save I like them much." 
 
 Then said Christian to Hopeful (but in a soft voice), 
 " Did I not tell you he sought to shirk us 1 But, be this 
 as it may, come up, and let us talk off the time in this 
 lone place." 
 
 Then, when he had a long speech with Ignorance, Chris- 
 tian spoke thus to his friend, " Well, come, my good Hope- 
 ful, I see that thou and I must walk side by side once 
 more." 
 
 So I saw in my dream, that they went on fast in front, 
 and Ignorance, he came with lame gait in their track. 
 Then said Christian to his friend, " I feel much for this 
 poor man : it will of a truth go hard with him at last." 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 THE LAND OF BEULAH — THE FOEDS OF THE EIVEE — > 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that by this time the wights 
 had got clear of the Enchanted Ground, and had come to 
 the land of Beulah, whose air was most sweet : as the way 
 did lie straight through it, they took rest there for a while. 
 
88 The Pilgrim? & (Progress,, 
 
 Yea, here they heard at all times " the songs of birds," 
 and saw each day the plants bud forth in the earth, and 
 heard "the voice of the dove " in the land. In this realm 
 the sun shines night and day : for this was far from the 
 Vale of the Shade of Death, and, in like way, out of the 
 
 CHKISTIAN AND HOPEFUL ENTER THE LAND OP BEULAH. 
 
 reach of Giant Despair ; nor could they from this place so 
 much as see Doubting Castle. Here they were in sight of 
 the City to which they were bound : here, too, met them 
 some of the folk who dwelt there, for in this land the 
 Bright Ones did walk, for that it was on the verge of bliss. 
 
The Land of Bvulah. t 89 
 
 Now as they did walk in this land they had more joy 
 than in parts not so nigh the realm to which they were 
 bonnd : and as they drew near the City they had yet a 
 more clear view of it. It was built of pearls and rare 
 gems : its streets, too, were of gold : so that, from the 
 sheen of the place, and the glow of the sun on it, Chris- 
 tian did long so much that he fell sick. Hopeful, in like 
 way, had a fit or two of the same kind. 
 
 But when they got some strength, and could bear their 
 sick state, they went on their way, and came near and yet 
 more near where were grounds that bore fruits, vines, and 
 plants ; and their gates did ope on the high road. Now, 
 as they came up to these parts, lo, the Gardener stood in 
 the way; to whom the men said, "Whose fine vine and 
 fruit grounds are these 1 " He said, " They are the King's, 
 and are put there for his own joy, as well as to cheer such 
 as come this way." So he took them to where the vines 
 grew, and bid them wet their mouths with the fruit : he, 
 too, did show them there the King's walks, and the shades 
 that he sought: and here they staid and slept. 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that they spoke more in their 
 sleep at this time than erst they did in all their way : and 
 as I did muse on it, the Gardener said to me, " Why dost 
 thou muse at this ? It is a charm in the fruit of the grapes 
 of these grounds' ' to go down in so sweet a way as to cause 
 the lips of them that sleep to speak.' " 
 
 So I saw that when they did wake they girt up their 
 loins to go up to the City. So as they went on, there met 
 them two men in robes that shone like gold, while the face 
 of each was bright as the lio-ht. 
 
 These men did ask them whence they came ; and they 
 told them. They would know, too, where they did lodge, 
 
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 and what straits and risks and joys they had met with in 
 the way ; and they told them. Then said the men that 
 met them, " You have but two straits more to meet with, 
 and then you are in the City." 
 
 Christian then, and his friend, did ask the men to go 
 with them : so they told them that they would ; but said 
 they, " You must gain it by your own faith." So I saw 
 in my dream that they went on each with each, till they 
 came in sight of the gate. 
 
 Now I saw still more, that a stream ran in front of them 
 and the gate ; but there was no bridge to cross, and the 
 stream was deep. At the sight of this stream, the wights 
 with staves took fright ; but the men that went with them 
 said, " Thou must go through, or thou canst not come at 
 the gate." 
 
 The wights then sought to know if there was no way 
 but that to the gate. To which they said, " Yes ; but 
 none, save two — to wit, Enoch and Elijah — hath been let 
 to tread that path since the world was made, nor shall till 
 the last trump shall sound." The wights then (and Chris- 
 tian in chief) giow as if they would give up hope, and did 
 look this way and that, but no way could be found by 
 which they might get clear of the stream. Then they did 
 ask the men if it was all the same depth. They said, 
 " No " ; yet they could not help them in that case : " for," 
 said they, " you shall find it more or less deep as you trust 
 in the King of the place." 
 
 Then they did wade in the stream, and as Christian sank 
 he did cry to his good friend Hopeful, and said, "- 1 sink." 
 
 Then said Hopeful, "Be of good cheer, my friend : I 
 feel the ground, and it is good. Then said Christian, 
 " Ah ! my friend, I shall not see the land I seek." And 
 
'92 The Pilgrim'* s Progress. 
 
 with that all grew dark, and tear fell on Christian, so that 
 he could not see in front of him. All the words that he 
 spoke still did tend to show that he had dread of mind and 
 fears of heart that he should die in that stream, and fail to 
 go in at the gate. Hopeful, from this cause, had here hard 
 work to hold up the head of his friend ; yea, at times he . 
 would be quite gone down, and then, ere a while, he would 
 rise up once more half dead. Hopeful would try to cheer 
 him, and said, " Friend, I see the gate, and men stand by 
 to greet us ": but Christian would say, " 'Tis you, 'tis you 
 they wait for ; you have had hope since the time I knew 
 you." Then said Hopeful, " These fears and griefs that 
 you go through are no sign that God has left you, but are 
 sent to try you ; if you will call to mind that which of yore 
 you have had from him, and live on him in your griefs." 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that Christian was in a muse 
 for a while. To whom, too, Hopeful did add these words, 
 *' Be of good cheer, Christ doth make thee whole." And 
 with that Christian brake out with a loud voice, " Oh, I 
 see Him once more ! and he tells me, ' When thou dost 
 pass through the stream, I will be with thee.' " Then they 
 both took heart, and the foe then grew as still as a stone, 
 till they were gone through^ Christian then straight found 
 ground to stand on, and so it came to pass that the rest of 
 the stream was but of slight depth : thus they did ford it. 
 
 Now on the bank of the stream, on the far off side, they 
 saw the two Bright Men once more, who there did wait for 
 them. When they came out of the stream these did greet. 
 them, and said : " We are sprites sent forth to aid them 
 who shall be heirs of Christ." Thus they went on to the 
 gate. 
 
 Now you must note that. £he City stood on a high hill t 
 
The Land of Beulah. 93 
 
 but the wight's went up that hill with ease, for that they 
 had these two men to lead them up by the arms : more 
 than this, they had left the garb they wore in the stream ; 
 for though they went in with them they came out freed 
 from them. They hence went up here with much speed, 
 though the rise on which the City was built was more high 
 than the clouds. They then went up through the realms 
 of air, and held sweet talk as they went, as they felt joy 
 for that they had got safe through the stream, and had 
 such Bright Ones to wait them. 
 
 The talk that they had with the Bright Ones was of the 
 place ; who told them that no words could paint it. " You 
 go now," said they, " to the sphere where God dwells, in 
 which you shall see the Tree of Life, and eat of the fruits 
 of it that fade not : and when you come there you shall 
 have white robes to wear, and your walk and talk shall be 
 each day with the King, while time shall be known no 
 more. There you shall not see such things as you saw 
 when low on earth, to wit, grief, pain, and death ; for 
 these things are gone. You now go to Abraham, to Isaac, 
 and Jacob, and to men that God ' took from the woe to 
 come.' " These men then did ask, " What must we do in 
 this pure place ? " To whom it was said, " You must there 
 get the meed of all your toil, and have joy for all your 
 grief; you must reap what you have sown, ay, the fruit of 
 all your tears and toils for the King by the way. In that 
 place you must wear crowns of gold, and bask for aye in 
 the sight of the Lord of Hosts, for there you ' shall see 
 Him as he is.' ' There, too, you shall serve Him with praise, 
 with shouts, with joy, whom you sought to serve in the 
 world, though with much pain, for that your flesh, was 
 weak. There you shall join with your friends once more 
 
§4 The Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 that are gone there ere you ; and there you shall with joy 
 greet each one that comes in your wake. When the King 
 shall come with sound of trump in the clouds, as on the 
 wings of the wind, you shall come with Him ; and, when 
 He shall sit on the Throne to judge all the realms of the 
 earth, you shall sit by Him : yea, and when He shall pass 
 doom on all that did work ill, let them be sprites or men, 
 you shall too have a voice in that doom, for that they are 
 His and your foes. More than this, when He shall go back 
 to the City, you shall go too, with sound of trump, and be 
 for aye with Him." 
 
 Now while they thus drew nigh to the gate, lo a troop 
 of the Bright Host came to meet them ; to whom it was 
 said by the first two Bright Ones, " These are the men 
 that did love our Lord, when they were in the world, and 
 that have left all for His name, and He hath sent us to 
 fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their 
 way, that they may go in and look their Lord in the face 
 with joy." There came, too, at this time to meet them a 
 group of the King's men with trumps, clad in white and 
 sheen robes, who, with sweet and loud notes, made the 
 whole arch of the sky full of the sound. These men did 
 greet Christian and his friend with much warmth ; and 
 this they did with shouts and sound of trump. 
 
 This done, they went round them on each side ; some 
 went in front, some in the rear, and some on the right 
 hand, some on the left (as it were to guard them through 
 the vast realms), and did sound as they went, with sweet 
 noise, in notes on high ; so that the bare sight was to them 
 that could look on it as if all the blest were come down to 
 meet them. Thus then did they walk on side by side. 
 And now were these two men, as it were, in bliss ere they 
 
" Tis you. 'tis you they wait for; you have had hope since the 
 time I knew you." 
 I Page 92) 
 
 (The Pilgrim's Progress. 1 
 
The Lai d of Beuldh. 95 
 
 came at it. Here, too, they had the City in view ; and 
 they thought they heard all the bells in it to ring, so as to 
 greet them. But, more than all, the warm and rare 
 thoughts that they had of the place to which they went, 
 and of those that dwelt there, and that for aye ; oh ! by 
 what tongue or pen can such vast joy be told 1 Thus they 
 came up to the gate. 
 
 Then I saw in my dream that the Bright Men bid them 
 call at the gate : the which when they did, some from on 
 high did look down, to wit, Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, and 
 so forth, to whom it was said, " These wights are come 
 from the City of Destruction, for the love that they bear 
 to the King of this place "; and then the wights gave in to 
 them each man his roll, which they had got at first : those, 
 then, were brought in to the King, who, when he had read 
 them, said, " Where are the men 1 " To whom it was told, 
 " They are at the porch of the gate." Then spoke the 
 King, " Ope the gate, that the just land that keeps truth 
 may come in." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream, that these two men went in at 
 the gate : and lo ! as they did so, a change came on them ; 
 and they had robes put on that shone like gold. There 
 were, too, that met them with harps and crowns, and gave 
 them to them ; the harps to praise with, the crowns in sign 
 of rank. Then I heard in my dream that all the bells of 
 the place rang for joy, and that it was said to them, " Come 
 ye to the joy of our Lord." 
 
 Now, just as the gates did ope to let in the men, did I 
 peer at them, and lo, the place shone like the sun : the 
 streets, too, were of gold ; and in them did walk men 
 with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and gold 
 harps to aid in songs of praise 
 
96 The Pilg^hrfs Progress. 
 
 There were some of them that had wings, and they sang, 
 with not a pause, songs to the " Lamb that was slain ! " 
 
 Then they shut up the gates ; which when I had seen I 
 did wish to be with them. 
 
 Now, while I did gaze on \xiL these things, I saw Igno- 
 rance come up to the side of the stream : but he soon got 
 through, and that void of half the toil which the two men 
 that I of late saw met with. So he did climb the hill to 
 come up to the gate ; but none came with him, nor did one 
 man meet or greet him. When he was come up to the 
 gate, he gave a look up at what was writ in front of it, and 
 then gave a knock. So they told the King, but he would 
 not come down to see him ; but told the two Bright Ones, 
 that led Christian and Hopeful to the City, to go out and 
 take Ignorance, and bind him hand and foot, and have 
 him off. Then they took him up, and bore him through the 
 air to the door that I saw in the side of the hill, and put 
 him in there. Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, 
 ay, from the gates of bliss, as well as from the City of 
 Destruction ! So I did wake, and lo, it was a dream \ 
 
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 people. By J. C. G. With 32 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Life of Christ. 
 
 Told in words of one syllable for young people. By Jean S. Remy. With many 
 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Lives of the Presidents. 
 
 Told in words of one syllable for young people. By Jean S. Remy. With 24 large 
 portraits. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Pilgrim's Progress. 
 
 Retold in words of one syllable for young people. By Samuel Phillips Day. With 
 32 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Reynard the Fox: 
 
 The Crafty Courtier. Retold in words of one syllable for young people. By Samuel 
 Phillips Day. With 23 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Robinson Crusoe. 
 
 His life and surprising adventures retold in words of one syllable for young people. By 
 Mary A. Schwacofer. With 32 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Sanford and Merton. 
 
 Retold in words of one syllable for young people. By Mary Godolphin. With 2(? 
 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 Swiss Family Robinson. 
 
 Retold in words of one syllable for young people. Adapted from the original. With 
 32 illustrations. Illuminated cloth. 
 
 For sale by all booksellers, or sent ™™+rytfj nn rcce i p t of price by the publishers, A. L. 
 BURT COMPANY, 114-120 East 23rd Street. New ,York. 
 
Barfs One Syllable Histories 
 
 A series of Popular Histories written in 
 words of One Syllable for young people's 
 reading. Bound in handsome cloth bind- 
 ing,, Covers in Colors. Quarto Size. Pro- 
 fusely Illustrated. 
 
 12 Titles. Price $1.00 per Copx 
 
 History of the United States. Told In Words o' 
 One Syllable. By Mrs. Helen W PiersOiY 
 Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History of England. Told in Words at On* Syllable. By Mrs. Helen 
 W, Pierson. Profusely illustrated. 
 
 History of France. Told in Words of One Syllable. By Mrs. Hjlen W. 
 Pierson. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History of Germany. Told in Words of One Syllable. By Mrs. Helen 
 W. Pierson Profusely illustrated. 
 
 History of Russia. Told in Words of One Syllable. By Helen Ainslie 
 Smith. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History Of Ireland. Told in Words of One Syllable. By Agnes Sadlier. 
 Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History Of Japan. Told in Words of One Syllable, 
 Smith. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History Of thfc Old Testament. Told in Words of One Syllable. By 
 Josephine. Pollard. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 History of the New Testament. Told in Words of One Syllable. By 
 Josephine Pollard. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 Heroes Of History. Told in Words of One Syllable. 
 Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 Battles of America. Told in Words of One Syllable, 
 Pollard. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 Lives Of the Presidents. Told in Words of One Syllable 
 Helen W. Pierson. Profusely Illustrated. 
 
 By Helen Ainslie 
 
 By Agnes Sadlier. 
 By Josephine 
 By Mrs. 
 
 For Sale by all Booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the i>ufo» 
 Ushers, A. L. BURT COMPANY; 
 
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