should assuredly have drunk of the same cup, but that through
craft, I, as thou seest, have made mine escape from them.'

When Diabolus had heard this lamentable story, he yelled and
snuffed up the wind like a dragon, and made the sky to look dark
with his roaring; he also sware that he would try to be revenged on
Mansoul for this. So they, both he and his old friend Incredulity,
concluded to enter into great consultation, how they might get the
town of Mansoul again.

Now, before this time, the day was come in which the prisoners in
Mansoul were to be executed. So they were brought to the cross,
and that by Mansoul, in most solemn manner; for the Prince said
that this should be done by the hand of the town of Mansoul, 'that
I may see,' said he, 'the forwardness of my now redeemed Mansoul to
keep my word, and to do my commandments; and that I may bless
Mansoul in doing this deed. Proof of sincerity pleases me well;
let Mansoul therefore first lay their hands upon these Diabolonians
to destroy them.'

So the town of Mansoul slew them, according to the word of their
Prince; but when the prisoners were brought to the cross to die,
you can hardly believe what troublesome work Mansoul had of it to
put the Diabolonians to death; for the men, knowing that they must
die, and every of them having implacable enmity in their hearts to
Mansoul, what did they but took courage at the cross, and there
resisted the men of the town of Mansoul? Wherefore the men of
Mansoul were forced to cry out for help to the captains and men of
war. Now the great Shaddai had a secretary in the town, and he was
a great lover of the men of Mansoul, and he was at the place of