glimpse of him as he did make his escape out of Mansoul; one or two
also did affirm that they saw him without the town, going apace
quite over the plain. Now when he was quite gone, it was affirmed
by one Mr. Did-see, that he ranged all over dry places, till he met
with Diabolus, his friend, and where should they meet one another
but just upon Hell-gate hill.

But oh! what a lamentable story did the old gentleman tell to
Diabolus concerning what sad alteration Emmanuel had made in
Mansoul!

As, first, how Mansoul had, after some delays, received a general
pardon at the hands of Emmanuel, and that they had invited him into
the town, and that they had given him the castle for his
possession. He said, moreover, that they had called his soldiers
into the town, coveted who should quarter the most of them; they
also entertained him with the timbrel, song, and dance. 'But
that,' said Incredulity, 'which is the sorest vexation to me is,
that he hath pulled down, O father, thy image, and set up his own;
pulled down thy officers and set up his own. Yea, and Willbewill,
that rebel, who, one would have thought, should never have turned
from us, he is now in as great favour with Emmanuel as ever he was
with thee. But, besides all this, this Willbewill has received a
special commission from his master to search for, to apprehend, and
to put to death all, and all manner of Diabolonians that he shall
find in Mansoul: yea, and this Willbewill has taken and committed
to prison already eight of my Lord's most trusty friends in
Mansoul. Nay, further, my Lord, with grief I speak it, they have
been all arraigned, condemned, and, I doubt, before this executed
in Mansoul. I told my Lord of eight, and myself was the ninth, who