th,
they looked very lovingly upon them, and said, Welcome to the Delectable
Mountains.

The shepherds, I say, whose names were Knowledge, Experience, Watchful,
and Sincere, took them by the hand, and had them to their tents, and
made them partake of what was ready at present. They said, moreover, We
would that you should stay here awhile, to be acquainted with us, and
yet more to solace yourselves with the good of these Delectable
Mountains. They then told them that they were content to stay. So they
went to rest that night, because it was very late.

Then I saw in my dream, that in the morning the Shepherds called up
Christian and Hopeful to walk with them upon the Mountains. So they went
forth with them, and walked awhile, having a pleasant prospect on every
side. Then said the Shepherds one to another, Shall we show these
pilgrims some wonders? So when they had concluded to do it, they had
them first to the top of a hill, called Error, which was very steep on
the furthest side, and bid them look down to the bottom. So Christian
and Hopeful looked down, and saw at the bottom several men dashed all
to pieces by a fall they had from the top. Then said Christian, What
meaneth this? The Shepherds answered, Have you not heard of them that
were made to err, by hearkening to Hymeneus and Philetus, as concerning
the faith of the resurrection of the body? They answered, Yes. Then said
the Shepherds, Those that you see dashed in pieces at the bottom of this
mountain are they; and they have continued to this day unburied, as you
see, for an example to others to take heed how they clamber too high, or
how they come too near the brink of this mountain.

Then I saw that they had them to the top of another mountain, and the
name of that is Caution, and bid them look afar off; which, when they
did, they perceived, as they thought, several men walking up and down
among the tombs that were there; and they perceived that the men were
blind, because they stumbled sometimes upon the tombs, and because they
could not get out from among them. Then said Christian, What means this?

The Shepherds then answered, Did you not see a little below these
mountains a stile that led into a meadow, on the left hand of this way?
They answered, Yes. Then said the Shepherds, From that stile there goes
a path that leads directly to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant
Despair; and these men, pointing to them among the tombs, came once on
pilgrimage