may be firſt therein, becauſe by my means we are both gone out of the way.
Hope. No, ſaid Hopeful, you ſhall not go firſt, for your mind being troubled may lead you out of the way again. Then for their encouragement, they heard the voice of one ſaying, Jer.31.21. Let thine heart be towards the Highway, even the way that thou wenteſt turn again: They are in danger of drowning as they go back. But by this time the Waters were greatly riſen, by reaſon of which, the way or going back was very dangerous. (Then I thought that it is eaſier going out of the way when we are in, then going in when we are out.) Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.
Neither could they, with all the ſkill they had, get again to the Stile that night. Wherefore, at laſt, lighting under a little ſhelter, they ſat down there till the day brake; but in the being weary, they fell aſleep.
They sleep in the grounds of Giant Despair.Now grounds of there was not far from the place where they lay, a Caſtle, called Doubting Caſtle, the owner whereof was
