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Rh bid them beware of the Flatterer. The third bid them take heed that they slept not upon the Enchanted Ground. And the fourth bid them God speed. So I awoke from my dream. And I slept and dreamed again, and saw the same two pilgrims going down the mountains along the highway towards the city. Now, a little below these mountains, on the left hand, lieth the country of Conceit, from which country there comes into the way in which the pilgrims walked a little crooked lane. Here, therefore, they met with a very brisk lad that came out of that country, and his name was Ignorance. So Christian asked him from what parts he came, and whither he was going.

. Sir, I was born in the country that lieth off there, a little on the left hand, and I am going to the Celestial City.

. But how do you think to get in at the gate, for you may find some difficulty there?

. As other good people do, said he.

. But what have you to show at that gate, that the gate should be opened to you?

. I know my Lord’s will, and have been a good liver; I pay every man his own; I pray, fast, support the church, and give alms, and have left my country for whither I am going.

. But thou earnest not in at the wicket-gate, that is, at the head of this way; thou earnest in hither