But _The Pilgrim's Progress_ dealt in terms of unmistakable experience with the journey that every man must go; the figures of its allegory were live persons, such as a man might meet upon any road, and its setting changed as the way ran through towns and villages, past fields and sloughs and thickets, over hills where the surest-footed might fall "from running to going and from going to clambering upon his hands and knees, because of the steepness of the place", or beside rivers that ran through meadows and orchards, with lilies underfoot, and above, "green trees with all manner of fruit".
