t let us
not be our own murderers. With these words Hopeful at present did
moderate the mind of his brother; so they continued together in the dark
that day, in their sad and doleful condition.

Well, toward evening the Giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see
if his prisoners had taken his counsel. But when he came there he found
them alive; and truly alive was all; for now, what for want of bread and
water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they
could do little but breathe. But I say he found them alive; at which he
fell into a grievous rage, and told them, that seeing they had disobeyed
his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been
born.

At this they trembled greatly, and I think that Christian fell into a
swoon; but coming a little to himself again, they renewed their
discourse about the Giant's counsel, and whether yet they had best take
it or no. Now Christian again seemed for doing it; but Hopeful made his
second reply as followeth:

My brother, said he, rememberest thou not how valiant thou hast been
heretofore? Apollyon could not crush thee, nor could all that thou didst
hear, or see, or feel, in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. What
hardship, terror, and amazement, hast thou already gone through! and
art thou now nothing but fears? Thou seest that I am in the dungeon with
thee, a far weaker man by nature than thou art. Also this Giant hath
wounded me as well as thee, and also cut off the bread and water from my
mouth, and with thee I mourn without the light. But let us exercise a
little more patience. Remember how thou playedst the man at Vanity Fair,
and wast neither afraid of the chain nor cage, nor yet of bloody death;
wherefore let us--at least to avoid the shame that it becomes not a
Christian to be found in--bear up with patience as well as we can.

Now night being come again, and the Giant and his wife in bed, she asked
him concerning the prisoners, and if they had taken his counsel; to
which he replied, They are sturdy rogues; they choose rather to bear all
hardships than to make away with themselves. Then said she, Take them
into the castle-yard to-morrow, and show them the bones and skulls of
those that thou hast already despatched, and make them believe, ere a
week comes to an end, thou wilt tear them in pieces, as thou hast done
their fellows before them.

So when the morning was come, the Giant goes to them again, and takes
them int