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fading none (and yet I should had there been such a place to be found, for I have
gone to seek it farther than you), I am going back again, and will seek to refresh myself
with the things that I then cast away for hopes of that which I now see is not.

Curis. Then said Christian to Hopeful his fellow, “Is it true which this man hath
said ?”

Hove. Take heed; he is one of the flatterers. Remember what it hath cost us
once already for hearkening to such kind of fellows. What! no Mount Zion? Did we

‘not see from the Delectable Mountains the gate of the city? Also, are we not now to
walk by faith? Let us go on, lest the man with the whip overtake us again. You
should have taught me that lesson, which I will round you in the ears withal: “Cease,
my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.” *
I say, my brother, cease to hear him, and let us believe to the saving of the soul.”

Curis. My brother, I did not put the question to thee for that I doubted of the
truth of our belief myself, but to prove thee, and to fetch from thee a fruit of the
honesty of thy heart. As for this man, I know that he is blinded by the god of this
world. Let thee and I go on, knowing that we have belief of the truth, and no lie is
of the truth.”

Hopz. Now do I rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

So they turned away from the man, and he, laughing at them, went his way.

J then saw in my dream that they went till they came into a certain country, whose
air naturally tended to make one drowsy if he came a stranger into it. And here
Hopeful began to be very dull and heavy of sleep; wherefore he said unto Christian,
“T do now begin to grow so drowsy, that I can scarcely hold up mine eyes; let us lie
down here, and take one nap.”

Curis. “ By no means,” said the other, “lest, sleeping, we never awake more.”

Horxr. Why, my brother? sleep is sweet to the laboring man: we may be refreshed
if we take a nap.

Curis. Do not you remember that one of the shepherds bid us beware of the En-
chanted Ground? He meant by that that we should beware of sleeping; wherefore
let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober.”

Horr. I acknowledge myself in fault; and had I been here alone, I had, by sleeping,
run the danger of death. I see it is true that the Wise Man saith, “Two are better
than one.” Hitherto hath thy company been my mercy; and thou shalt have a
good reward for thy labor.

Curis. “ Now, then,” said Christian, “to prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall
into good discourse.”