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Part two, the fifth stage.
Now I saw in my dream that they

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went forward until they were come to
the brow of the hill, where Piety,

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bethinking herself, cried out, alas
I have forgot what I intended to

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bestow upon Christiana and her companions.
I will go back and fetch it.

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So she ran and fetched it.
While she was gone, Christiana thought she

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heard in a grove a little way
off on the right hand, a most

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curious, melodious note, with words
much like these. Through all my life,

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thy favor is so frankly showed to
me that in Thy house for evermore

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my dwelling place shall be. And
listening still, she thought she heard another

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answering, saying, for why the
Lord, our God is good. His

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mercy is for ever sure, his
truth at all times firmly stood, and

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shall from age to age endure.
So Christiana asked Prudence who it was that

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made these curious notes Song of Solomon
two eleven and twelve. They are,

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answered, she, our country birds
they sing these notes, but seldom except

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it be at the spring, when
the flowers appear and the sun shines warm.

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And then you may hear them all
day long, I often said,

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She go out to hear them.
We also oftentimes keep them tame in our

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house. They are very fine company
for us when we are melancholy. Also

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they make the woods and groves and
solitary places places desirable to be in.

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By this time Piety was come again, so she said to Christiana, Look

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here I have brought thee a scheme
of all those things that thou hast seen

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at our house, upon which thou
mayest look when thou find'st thyself forgetful,

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and call those things again to remembrance
for thy edification and comfort. Now they

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began to go down the hill into
the Valley of Humiliation. It was a

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steep hill, and the way was
slippery, but they were very careful,

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so they got down pretty well.
When they were down in the valley,

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Piety said to Christiana, this is
the place where Christian, your husband met

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with the foul fiend Apollon, and
where they had that dreadful fight that they

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had. I know you cannot but
have heard thereof, But be of good

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courage. As long as you have
here, mister Greatheart, to be your

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guide and conductor, we hope you
will fare the better. So, when

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these two had committed the pilgrims unto
the conduct of their guide. He went

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forward, and they went after.
Mister Greatheart. Then said mister Greatheart,

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we need not be so afraid of
this valley, for here is nothing to

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hurt us unless we procure it to
ourselves. It is true Christian did here

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meet with Apollon, with whom he
had also a sore combat, But that

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fray was the fruit of those slips
that he got in his going down the

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hill. For they that get slips
there must look for combats here. And

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hence it is that this valley has
got so hard a name for the common

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people, when they hear that some
frightful thing has befallen such an one in

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such a place. Our of opinion
that that place is haunted with some foul

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fiend or evil spirit, when alas
it is for the fruit of their doing,

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that such things do befall them there, this valley of Humiliation is of

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itself as fruitful a place as any. The crow flies over, and I

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am persuaded if we could hit upon
it, we might find somewhere hereabouts something

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that might give us an account why
Christian was so hardly beset in this place.

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Then said James, to his mother. Lo yonderstands a pillar, and

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it looks as if something was written
thereon. Let us go and see what

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it is. So they went and
found there written Let Christian slips before he

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came hither, and the battles that
he met with in this place be a

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warning to those that come after.
Lo said their guide, did not I

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tell you that there was something hereabouts
that would give intimation of the reason why

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Christian was so hard beset in this
place. Then, turning to Christiana,

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he said, no disparagement to Christian
more than to any others whose hap and

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lot it was. For it is
easier going up than down this hill,

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And that can be said but of
few hills in all these parts of the

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world. But we will leave the
good man. He is at rest.

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He also had a brave victory over
his enemy. Let him grant that dwelleth

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above that we fare no worse when
we come be tried than he. But

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we will come again. This valley
of humiliation. It is the best and

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most fruitful piece of ground in all
those parts. It is fat ground,

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and as you see, consisteth much
in meadows. And if a man was

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to come here in the summer time, as we do now. If he

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knew not anything before thereof, and
if he also delighted himself in the sight

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of his eyes, he might see
that which would be delightful to him.

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Behold, how green this valley is, also how beautified with lilies Song of

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Solomon two one. I have known
many laboring men that have got good estates

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in this valley of humiliation. For
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace

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to the humble James four six,
First Peter five five. Indeed it is

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a very fruitful soil, and doth
bring forth by handfuls. Some also have

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wished that the next way to their
father's house were here, that they might

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be troubled no more with either hills
or mountains to go over. But there

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wagh is the way, and there
is an end. Now. As they

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were going along and talking, they
aspired a boy feeding his father's sheep.

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The boy was in very mean clothes, but of a very fresh and well

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favored countenance. And as he sat
by himself he sung, hark said,

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mister greatheart, to what the shepherd's
boy saith? So they harkened as he

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said, he that is thoun needs
fear no. Four, he that is

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low, no pride, He that
is humble, ever, shall have God

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to be his guide. I am
content with what I have, little be

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it or much, And Lord,
contentment still I crave, because thou savest

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such fullness to such a burden is
that go on pilgrimage? Here little and

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hereafter bliss is best from age to
age, Then said the guide. Do

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you hear him? I will dare
to say that this boy lives a merrier

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life and wears more of that herb
called heart's ease in his bosom than he

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that is clad in silk and velvet. But we will proceed in our discourse

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in this valley. Our lord formerly
had his country house. He loved much

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to be here. He loved also
to walk these meadows, for he found

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the air was pleasant. Besides,
here a man shall be free from the

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noise and from the hurryings of this
life. All states are full of noise

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and confusion. Only the value of
humiliation is that empty and solitary place.

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Here a man shall not be so
let and hindered in his contemplation as in

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other places he is apt to be. This is a valley that nobody walks

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in, but those that love a
pilgrim's life. And though Christian had the

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hard hap to meet here with a
pollium and to enter with him in a

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brisk encounter, yet I must tell
you that in former times men have met

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with angels here Joseah twelve four and
five, have found pearls here Matthew thirteen

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forty six, and have in this
place found the words of life Proverbs eight

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thirty six. Did I say our
Lord had here in former days his country

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house, and that he loved here
to walk, I will add in this

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place and to the people that love
and trace these grounds, he has left

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a yearly revenue to be faithfully paid
them at certain seasons, for their maintenance

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by their way, and for their
further encouragement to go on in their pilgrimage.

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Samuel. Now, as they went
on, Samuel said to mister Greatheart,

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Sir, I perceive that in this
valley my father and Apollyon had their

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battle. But whereabout was the fight? For I perceive this valley is large,

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mister Greatheart, your father had the
battle with a pollion at a place

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yonder before us, in a narrow
passage just beyond forgetful Green. And indeed

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that place is the most dangerous in
all these parts. For if at any

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time pilgrims meet with any brunt,
it is when they forget what favors they

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have received, and how unworthy they
are of them. This is the place

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also where others have been hard put
to it. But more of the place

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when we are come to it.
For I persuade myself that to this day

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there remains either some sign of the
battle or some monument to testify that such

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a battle there was fought. Mercy, then said Mercy, I think I

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am as well in this valley as
I have been anywhere else in all our

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journey. This place, methinks,
suits with my spirit. I love to

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be in such places where there is
no rattling with coaches, nor rumbling with

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wheels. Methinks, here here one
may, without much molestation, be thinking

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what he is, whence he came, what he has done, and to

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what the King has called him.
Here one may think and break at heart,

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and melt in one spirit until one's
eyes become as the fish pulls in

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Heshban song Solomon seven. Four.
They that go rightly through this valley of

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Baca make it a well. The
rain that God sends down from heaven upon

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them that are here, also filleth
the pools this valley is that from whence

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also the King will give to his
their vineyards, and they that go through

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it shall sing, as Christian did
for all he met with Apollon Psalm eighty

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four five to seven Joseiah two fifteen. Mister greatheart, tis true, said

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their guide. I have gone through
this valley many a time, and never

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was better than when here I have
as been a conduct to several pilgrims,

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and they have confessed the same to
this man. Will I look saith the

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king, even to him that is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and

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trembleth at my word Isaiah sixty six
two. Now they were come to the

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place where the aforementioned battle was fought. Then said the guide to Christiana,

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her children and mercy. This is
the place on this ground Christian stood,

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and up there came Apollon against him. And look, and look, did

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I not tell you? Here is
some of your husband's blood upon these stones.

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To this day? Behold also how
here and there are yet to be

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seen upon the place some of the
shivers of Apollion's broken darts. See also,

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had they did beat the ground with
their feet as they fought to make

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good their places against each other.
How also with their biblows they did split

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the very stones and pieces. Verily, Christian did here play the man,

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and showed himself as stout as Hercules
could had he been there, even he

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himself. When Apollon was beat,
he made his retreat to the next valley,

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that is called the valley of the
Shadow of Death, unto which we

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shall come. Anon lo Yonder also
stands a monument on which, as it

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engravened this battle and Christian's victory to
his fame throughout all ages. So because

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it stood just on the wayside before
them, they stepped to it and read

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the writing, which word for word
was this hard by. Here was a

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battle fought most strange and yet most
true. Christian and Apollon fought each other

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to subdue the man. So bravely
played the man, he made the fiend

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to fly, of which a monument
I stand the same to testify. When

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they had passed by this place,
they came upon the borders of the Shadow

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of Death. This valley was longer
than the other, a place also most

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strangely haunted with evil things, as
many are able to testify. But these

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women and children went the better through
it, because they had daylight, and

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because mister Greatheart was their conductor.
When they were entering upon this valley,

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they thought they heard a groaning as
of dying men, a very great groaning.

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They felt also that they did hear
words of lamentation spoken, as of

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some in extreme torment. These things
made the boys to quake. The women

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also looked pale and wan but their
guide bid them be of good comfort.

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So they went on a little further, and they thought that they felt the

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ground begin to shake under them,
as if some hollow place was there.

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They heard also a kind of hissing
as of serpents, but nothing as yet

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appeared. Then the boys are we
not yet at the end of this doleful

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place. But the guide also bid
them be of good courage, and look

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well to their feet less happily said
he ye be taken in some snare.

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Now James began to be sick,
but I think the cause thereof was fear.

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So his mother gave him some of
that glass of spirits that had been

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given her at their interpreter's house,
and three of the pills that mister Skill

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had prepared, and the boy began
to revive. Thus they went on till

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they came to about the middle of
the valley, and then Christiana said,

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methinks, I see something yonder upon
the road before us, a thing of

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a shape such as I have not
seen. But then said Joseph, mother,

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what is it? An ugly thing, child, An ugly thing,

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said she. But mother, what
is it like? Said he? Tis

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like? I cannot tell, what, said she. And now it is

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but a little way off, then
said she. It is nigh. Well,

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said mister greatheart. Let them that
I'm most afraid, keep close to

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me. So the fiend came on, and the conductor met it, but

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when it was come to him,
it vanished. To all their sights.

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Then remembered they what had been said
some time ago, Resist the devil,

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and he will flee from you James
four seven. They went therefore on as

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being a little refreshed. But they
had not gone far before Mercy, looking

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behind her sore as she thought something
most like a lion. And it came

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at a great padding pace after and
it had a hollow voice of roaring,

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and at every roar it gave it
made the valley echo, and all their

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hearts to ache save the heart of
him that was their guide. So it

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came up, and mister Greatheart went
behind and put the pilgrims all before him.

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The lion also came on apace,
and mister Greatheart addressed himself to give

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him battle first Peter five, eight
and nine. But when he saw that

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it was determined that resistance should be
made, he also drew back and came

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no further. Then they went on
again, and their conductor went before them,

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till they came to a place where
it was cast up a pit the

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whole breadth of the way. And
before they could be prepared to go over

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that, a great mist and a
darkness fell upon them, so that they

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could not see. Then said the
pilgrims, alas, what now shall we

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do? But their guide made answer, fear not stand still and see what

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an end will be put to this
also, so they stayed there, because

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their path was marred. They then
also thought that they did here more.

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Apparently the noise and rushing of the
enemies, the fire also and the smoke

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of the pit were much easier to
be discerned. Then, said Christiana to

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Mercy. Now I see what my
poor husband went through. I have heard

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much of this place, but I
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man, he went here all alone
in the night. He had night almost

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quite through the way. Also,
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if they would have torn him in
pieces. Many have spoken of it,

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but none can tell what the valley
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they come in themselves. The heart
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intermeddleth not with its joy Proverbs fourteen
ten. To be here is a fearful

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thing, mister greatheart. This is
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like going down into the deep.
This is like being in the heart of

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the sea, and like going down
to the bottoms of the mountains. Now

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it seems as if the earth with
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But let them that walk in darkness
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of the Lord, and stay upon
their God Isaiah fifty ten. For my

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part, as I have told you
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valley, and have been much harder
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And yet you see I am alive. I would not boast for that.

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I am not mine own savior,
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deliverance. Come, let us pray
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darkness, and that can rebuke not
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So they cried and prayed, and
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there was now no let in their
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now they were stopped with a pit. Yet they were not got through the

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valley. So they went on still, and met with great stinks and loathsome

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smells. To the great annoyance of
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It is not so pleasant being here
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interpreters, or at the house where
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one of the boys, it is
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it is to abide here always and
for all I know. One reason why

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we must go this way to the
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home might be the sweeter to us. Well, said Samuel, quoth the

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guide, thou hast now spoke like
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out here again, said the boy, I think I shall prize light and

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good way better than I ever did
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guide, we shall be out by
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Joseph said, cannot we see to
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Then said the guide, look to
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among the snares. So they looked
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they were troubled much with the snares. Now, when they were come among

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the snares, they aspired a man
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with his flesh or rent and torn. Then said the guide, that

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is one heedless that was going this
way. He has lain there a great

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while. There was one take heed
with him when he was taken and slain,

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But he escaped their hands. You
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And yet men are so foolishly venturous
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and to come without a guide.
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he here escaped. But he was
beloved of his God. Also he had

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a good heart of his own,
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Now they drew towards the end of
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Christian had seen the cave when he
went by out. Thence came forth more

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a giant. This more did used
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he called great Heart by his name, and said unto him, how many

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times have you been forbidden to do
these things? Then said mister Greatheart,

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what things? What things? Quoth
the Giant? You know what things?

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But I will put an end to
your trade. But pray, said mister

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Greatheart, before we fall to it. Let us understand, wherefore we must

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fight. Now The women and dren
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Quoth the Giant, you rob the
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worst of thefts. These are but
generals, said mister Greatheart. Come to

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particulars. Man, then said the
Giant, Thou practicest the craft of a

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kidnapper. Thou gatherest up women and
children and carriest them into a strange country,

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to the weakening of my master's kingdom. But now, great Heart replied,

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I am a servant of the God
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persuade sinners to repentance. I am
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women and children from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan

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unto God. And if this be
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Let us fall to it as soon
as thou wilt. Then the giant came

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up, and mister Greatheart went to
meet him, And as he went he

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drew his sword, But the yet
had a club, so without more ado,

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they fell to it, And at
the first blow the giant struck mister

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Greatheart down upon one of his knees. With that the women and children cried

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out. So mister Greatheart, recovering
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manner, and gave the giant a
wound in his arm. Thus he fought

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for the space of an hour to
that height of heat that the breath came

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out of the giant's nostrils as the
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Then they sat down to rest them, but mister Greatheart betook himself to prayer.

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Also the women and children did nothing
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that the battle did last. When
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they both fell to it again,
and mister Greatheart, with a blow,

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fetched the giant down to the ground. Nay, hold let me recover,

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quoth he. So mister great Heart
fairly let him get up so to it

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they went again, and the giant
missed but little of all, to breaking

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mister Greatheart's skull with his club.
Mister Greatheart, seeing that, runs to

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him in the full heat of his
spirit, and pierceth him under the fifth

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rib. With that the giant began
to faint and could hold up his club

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no longer. Then mister Greatheart seconded
his blow and smite the head of the

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giant from his shoulders. Then the
women and children rejoiced, and mister Greatheart

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also praised God for the deliverance he
had wrought. When this was done,

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they amongst them erected a pillar and
fastened the giant's head thereon, and wrote

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under in letters that passengers might read. He that did wear this head was

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one that pilgrims did misuse. He
stopped their way. He spared none,

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but did them all abuse until that
eye great Heart arose the pilgrim's guide to

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be. Until that I did him
oppose that was their enemy. End Part

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two, The fifth Stage