When Christian and Hopeful thought they would move on, one of the
men gave them a note of the way, and the next (Experience by
name) bade them take heed that they slept not on The Enchanted
Ground, and the fourth bade them God Speed. Now it was that I
woke from my dream.

Then I slept, and dreamt once more, and saw Christian and Hopeful
go down near the foot of these hills, where lies the land of
Conceit, which joins the way to Mount Zion, by a small lane. Here
they met a brisk lad, whose name was Ignorance, to whom Christian
said: Whence come you, and to what place do you go?

Ignorance.--Sir, I was born in the land that lies off there on
the left, and I wish to go to The Celestial City.

Christian.--How do you think to get in at the gate?

Ignorance.--Just as the rest of the world do.

Christian.--But what have you to show at that gate to pass you
through it?

Ignorance.--I know my Lord's will, and I have led a good life; I
pay for all that I have, I give tithes, and give alms, and have
left my own land for that to which I now go.

Christian.--But you came not in at the gate that is at the head
of this way, you came in through a small lane; so that I fear,
though you may think well of all you have done, that when the