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124 rough in that place, they chose to go out of it into that meadow, and there were taken by Giant Despair, and cast into Doubting Castle; where, after they had a while been kept in the dungeon, he at last did put out their eyes, and led them among those tombs, where he has left them to wander to this very day, that the saying of the wise man might be fulfilled, "He that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." (Prov. xxi. 16.) Then Christian and Hopeful looked one upon another with tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the Shepherds.

Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, where was a door on the side of a hill; and they opened the door, and bid them look in. They looked in, therefore, and saw that within it "was very dark and smoky; they also thought that they heard there a rumbling noise, as of fire, and, a cry of some tormented; and that they smelt the scent of brimstone. Then said Christian, What means this The Shepherds told them, This is a by-way to hell, a way that hypocrites go in at—namely, such as sell their birthright, with Esau; such as sell their Master, with Judas; such as blaspheme the gospel, with Alexander; and that lie and dissemble, with Ananias and Sapphire his wife.

Hope. Then said Hopeful to the Shepherds, I perceive that these had on them, even every one, a show of pilgrimage, as we hare now; had they not?

Shep. Yes, and held it a long time too.

Hope. How far might they go on in pilgrimage in their days, since they, notwithstanding, were thus miserably cast away?

Shep. Some further, and some not: so far as these mountains.

Then said the pilgrims one to the other, We have need to cry to the Strong for strength.