tand forth, for I am come
to slay thee and pull down thy house.

Giant Despair:--What, shall such as Great-heart make me fear? No!

So he put a cap of steel on his head, and with a breast plate of fire,
and a club in his hand, he came out to fight his foes.

Then these six men made up to him, and they fought for their lives, till
Despair was brought to the ground and put to death by Great-heart. Next
they fell on his house, but it took six days to pull it down. They found
there Mr. Despondency and one Much-afraid, his child, and set them free.

Then they all went onto The Delectable Mountains. They made friends with
the men that kept watch on their flocks, who were as kind to them as
they had been to Christian and Hopeful.

You have brought a good train with you, said they. Pray, where did you
find them?

So their guide told them how it had come to pass.

By and by they got to The Enchanted Ground, where the air makes men
sleep. Now they had not gone far, when a thick mist fell on them, so
that for a while they could not see; and as they could not walk by
sight, they kept near their guide by the help of words. But one fell in
a bush, while one stuck fast in the mud, and some of the young ones lost
their shoes in the mire. Oh, I am down! said one. Where are you? cried
the next; while a third said, I am held fast in the bush!

Then they came to a bench, Slothful's Friend by name, which had shrubs
and plants round it, to screen those who sat there from the sun. But
Christiana and the rest gave such good heed to what their guide told
them, that though they were worn out with toil, yet there was not one
of them that had so much as a wish to stop there; for they knew that it
would be death to sleep but for a short time on The Enchanted Ground.

Now as it was still dark, their guide struck a light that he might look
at his map (the book of God's Word); and had he not done so, they would
all have been lost, for just at the end of the road was a pit, full of
mud, and no one can tell how deep.

Then thought I: Who is there but would have one of these maps or books
in which he may look when he is in doubt, and knows not which way he
should take?

They soon came to a bench, on which sat two men, Heedless and Too-bold;
and Christiana and the rest shook their heads for they saw that these
men were in a bad case. They knew not what they ought to do: to go on
and leave them in their sleep, or to try to wake them. Now the gu