The Shepherds then answered, Did you not see a little below these Mountains a Stile, that led into a Meadow, on the left hand of this way? They answered, Yes. Then said the Shepherds, From that Stile there goes a path that leads directly to _Doubting_ Castle, which is kept by Giant _Despair_; and these men (pointing to them among the Tombs) came once on Pilgrimage, as you do now, even till they came to that same Stile; and because the right way was rough in that place, they chose to go out of it into that Meadow, and there were taken by Giant _Despair_, and cast into _Doubting_ Castle; where after they had been awhile kept in the Dungeon, he at last did put out their eyes, and led them among those Tombs, where he has left them to wander to this very day, that the saying of the Wise Man might be fulfilled, _He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the Congregation of the dead_. Then _Christian_ and _Hopeful_ looked upon one another, with tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the Shepherds. Then I saw in my Dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, where was a door in the side of a Hill; and they opened the door, and bid them look in. They looked in therefore, and saw that within it was very dark and smoaky; they also thought that they heard there a lumbring noise as of Fire, and a cry of some tormented, and that they smelt the scent of Brimstone. Then said _Christian_, _What means this?_ The Shepherds told them, This is a by-way to Hell, a way that Hypocrites go in at; namely, such as sell their Birthright, with _Esau_; such as sell their Master, as _Judas_; such as blaspheme the Gospel, with _Alexander_; and that lie and dissemble, with _Ananias_ and _Sapphira_ his Wife. _Hope._ Then said _Hopeful_ to the Shepherds, I perceive that these had on them, even every one, a shew of Pilgrimage, as we have now; had they not? _Shep._ Yes, and held it a long time too. _Hope._ How far might they go on Pilgrimage in their day, since they notwithstanding were thus miserably cast away? _Shep._ Some further, and some not so far as these Mountains. Then said the Pilgrims one to another, We had need to cry to the Strong for strength. _Shep._ Ay, and you will have need to use it when you have it too. By this time the Pilgrims had a desire to go forwards, and the Shepherds a desire they should; so they walked together towards the end of the Mountains. Then said the Shepherds one to another, Let us here shew to the Pilgrims the Gates of the Coelestial City, if they have still to look through our Perspective-Glass. The Pilgrims then lovingly accepted the motion; so they had them to the top of an high Hill, called _Clear_, and gave them their Glass to look.