The work as a whole, then, presents a conflation of joyful rewarding feasts: the actual, the scriptural, the liturgical and the eschatological. But first it is necessary to arrive and to be judged. In Book 19 Bartholomew describes different kinds of road, footpath and track, with their uses and hazards, making clear that before arriving at the desired refuge the traveller has a choice of paths and the chance of further danger from robbers at the crossroads.^[123] Glosses against this chapter indicate choices of career available to medieval readers — religious or military, for instance — and the need to follow example and advice: ‘Take note concerning the multiplicity of ways; of precepts and advice; of the path of religion; of the path of the warrior.’^[124] It is as if the compiler, having brought the reader to this final stage, leaves it to him or her to decide what happens next. The reader’s identification with the traveller comes to a logical endpoint.