Then the Shepherds took them to the top of another mountain, and the name of it was Caution, and the Shepherds bid them look afar off.  When the pilgrims did this, they saw, as they thought, several men walking up and down among the tombs that were there.  And they saw 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 see a little below these mountains a stile that led into a meadow?”

They answered, “Yes.”

“From that stile,” said the Shepherds, “there goes a path that leads straight to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair.  These men,” and the Shepherds pointed to those among the tombs, “came once on a pilgrimage as you do now.  But when they came to the stile, because 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.