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HOPEFUL quiets the mind of CHRISTIAN.

sider again, that all the law is not in the hand of Giant DESPAIR: others, so far as I can understand, have been taken by him as well as we, and yet have escaped out of his hands. Who knows, but that Gon, that made the world, may cause that Giant DESPAIR may die, or that at some time or other, he may forget to lock us in; or but he may in a short time have another of his fits before us, and may lose the use of his limbs? and if ever that should happen again, for my part, I am resolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmost to get from under his hand. I was a fool that I did not try to do it before: but, however, my brother, let us be patient, and endure a while: the time may come that may give us a happy release: but let us not be our own murderers. With these words HOPEFUL at present did moderate the mind of his brother; so they continued together, in the dark, that day, in their sad and doleful condition.

Well, towards evening, the Giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his counsel; but when he came there he found them alive; and, truly, alive was all. For now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they could do little but breathe. But, I say, he found them alive; at which he fell into a grievous rage, and told them that, seeing they bad disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been born.

Past deliverances recollected.

At this they trembled greatly, and I think that CHRISTIAN fell into a swoon; but coming a little to himself again, they renewed their discourse about the Giant's counsel, and whether yet they had best take it or no. Now CHRISTIAN again seemed for doing it, but HOPEFUL made his second reply as followeth.

My brother, said he, rememberest thou not how valiant thou hast been heretofore? APOLLYON could not crush thee; nor could all that thou didst hear, or see, or feel, in the Valley in the SHADOW OF DEATH; what hardship, terror and amazement hast thou already gone through, and art thou now nothing but fear? Thou seest that I am in the dungeon with thee, a far weaker man by nature than thou art; also this Giant has wounded me as well as thee, and hath also cut off the bread and water from my mouth, and with thee I mourn without the light. But let us exercise a little more patience: remember how thou playedst the man at VANITYFAIR, and wast neither afraid of the chain nor cage, nor yet of bloody death: wherefore let us, at least to avoid the shame that becomes not a Christian to be found in, bear up with patience as well as we

can.

Now night being come again, and the giant and his wife being in bed, she asked him concerning the prisoners, and if they had taken his counsel :-to which he replied, they are sturdy rogues, they 'choose rather to bear all hardship than to make

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DIFFIDENCE's counsel to the Giant,

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away themselves.' Then said she, Take them into the Castle-yard to-morrow, and shew them the bones and skulls of those that thou hast already dispatched, and make them believe, ere a 'week comes to an end, thou also wilt tear them ' in pieces, as thou hast done their fellows before 'them.'

So when the morning was come the Giant goes to them again, and takes them into the Castle-yard, and shews them as his wife had bidden him; these, said he, were Pilgrims, as you are, once, and they trespassed in my grounds, as you have done; and when I thought fit I tore them in pieces, and so within ten days I will do you: go get you down into your den again.-And with that he beat them all the way thither. They lay therefore all day on Saturday in a lamentable case, as before. Now, when night was come, and when Mrs. DiffiDENCE and her husband the Giant were got to bed, they began to renew their discourse of their prisoners; and withal, the old Giant wondered that he could neither by his blows nor counsel bring them to an end. And with that his wife replied, I fear, said she, that they live in hopes that some will come to relieve them, or that they have picklocks about them, by the means of which they hope to escape. And sayest thou so, my dear? said the Giant; I will therefore search them in the morning.

Well, on Saturday about midnight they began

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The key, PROMISE, opens the door.---The Pilgrims escape.

to pray and continued in prayer till almost break of day.

Now a little before it was day good CHRISTIAN, as one half amazed, brake out in this passionate speech: What a fool,' quoth he, am I, thus to lie ' in a stinking dungeon when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom called PROMISE, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock ' in DOUBTING-CASTLE.' Then said HOPEFUL, 'That's good news, good brother, pluck it out of 'thy boson and try.'

Then CHRISTIAN pulled it out of his bosom, and began to try at the dungeon door; whose bolt, as he turned the key, gave back, and the door flew open with ease, and CHRISTIAN and HOPEFUL both came out. Then he went to the outer door that leads into the Castle-yard, and with this key

opened that door also. gate, for that must be went extremely hard; yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed, but that gate as it opened made such a creaking that it waked Giant DESPAIR, who hastily rising to pursue his prisoners felt his limbs to fail, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on and came to the King's highway again, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdic

After he went to the iron opened too, but that lock

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Now, when they were gone over the stile, they began to contrive with the nselves what they should

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