When they were come to the place where Mistrust and Timorous met Christian to persuade him to go back for fear of the lions, they perceived as it were a stage, and before it, towards the road, a broad plate, with a copy of verses written thereon, and underneath, the reason of raising up of that stage in that place, rendered. The verses were these⁠—

Let him who sees this stage take heed

Unto his heart and tongue;

Lest if he do not, here he speed,

As some have long agone.