58 THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS.

awake them, and cried, “ You are like them that sleep on the top of a mast; for the
deep sea is under you, a gulf that hath no bottom: awake, therefore, and come away ;
be willing, also, and I will help you off with your irons.” He also told them, “If he
that goeth about like a roaring lion” comes by, you will certainly become a prey to
his teeth.” With that they looked upon him, and began to reply in this sort: Simple
said, “I see no danger.” Sloth said, “ Yet a little more sleep.” And Presumption
said, “ Every tub must stand upon his own bottom.” And so they lay down to sleep
again, and Christian went on his way.
Yet was he troubled to think that men in that danger should so little esteem the
‘es, kindness of him that so offered to help them,
both by awakening of them, counselling of
them, and proffering to help them off with
their irons. And, as he was troubled there-
about, he espied two men come tumbling over

    
   
   
  
 
   

the wall on the left hand of the narrow way;

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and they made up apace to him. The name

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of one was Formalist, and the name of the

 

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other was Hypocrisy. So, as I said, they drew
up unto him, who thus entered with them
into discourse :

\i Curis. Gentlemen, whence came you, and

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whither go you?

Form. and Hyp. We were born in the land

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eS Sy Ms. = eS ' :
‘ Ge SS Mount Zion.
; ae Mn Curis. Why came you not in at the gate
ante which standeth at the beginning of the way ?

Know ye not that it is written, “He that
cometh not in by the door, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber” ?%

Form. and Hyp. They said that to go to the gate for entrance was, by all their
countrymen, counted too far about; and that therefore their usual way was to make a
short cut of it, and to climb over the wall as they had done.

Curis. But will it not be counted a tresspass against the Lord of the city whither
we are bound, thus to violate His revealed will ?

Form and Hyp. They told him, that as for that, he needed not trouble his head