with him, that he might set them on the right way once more. He
said: Where were you last night?

Quoth they: With the men who kept watch of their sheep on The
Delectable Mountains.

Then he said: But when you were at a stand why did you not read
your note?

They told him they had not thought of it.

Now I saw in my dream that he bade them lie down, and whipt them
sore, to teach them the good way in which they should walk; and
he said: Those whom I love I serve thus.

So they gave him thanks for what he had taught them, and went on
the right way up the hill with a song of joy.

At length they came to a land the air of which made men sleep,
and here the lids of Hopeful's eyes dropped, and he said: Let us
lie down here and take a nap.

Christian.--By no means, lest if we sleep we wake no more.

Hopeful.--Nay, friend Christian, sleep is sweet to the man who
has spent the day in toil.

Christian.--Do you not call to mind that one of the men who kept
watch of the sheep bade us take care of The Enchanted Ground? He
meant by that that we should take heed not to sleep; so let us