ecause the right way was rough, they went over it into the meadow.
Here they were taken by Giant Despair and cast into Doubting Castle.
After they had been kept some time in the dungeon, he at last did put
out their eyes. Then he led them among those tombs, and left them to
wander there till this very day."

Then Christian and Hopeful thought of their escape from Doubting
Castle, and they looked at one another with tears in their eyes. But
yet they said nothing to the Shepherds. Now I saw in my dream that the
Shepherds brought them to another place, where was a door in the side
of a hill, and they opened the door and bid the pilgrims look in. They
looked in therefore and saw that within it was very dark and smoky.
They also thought that they heard there a rumbling noise as of fire,
and a cry as of some in trouble.

Then said Christian, "What means this?"

The Shepherds said, "This is a byway to hell."

And the Shepherds said one to another, "Let us show the pilgrims the
gates of the Celestial City, if they have skill to look through our
glass."

So they took Christian and Hopeful to the top of another high hill,
called Clear, and gave them the glass to look. They tried to look, but
the remembrance of that last thing the Shepherds had showed them made
their hands shake, so that they could not look steadily through the
glass. Yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also
some of the beauty of the place. When they were about to depart, one
of the Shepherds gave them a note of the way. Another of them bid
them beware when they met the Flatterer. The third bid them take heed
that they did not sleep upon the Enchanted Ground. And the fourth bid
them "Godspeed." So I awoke from my dream.

And I slept and dreamed again, and I saw the same two pilgrims going
down the mountains and along the highway. They went on then till they
came to a place where they saw another path that seemed to be as
straight as the way which they should go. And here they knew not which
of the two to take, for both seemed straight before them, therefore
here they stood still to think.

And as they were thinking about the way, behold, a man, black of
flesh, but covered with a very light robe, came to them, and asked
them why they stood there.

They answered they were going to the Celestial City, but knew not
which of these ways to take.

"Follow me," said the man. "It is there I am going."

So they followed him in the path that h