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But when the townsfolk saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, they did as old Ill-pause advised; they took and did eat
thereof. Now this I should have told you before, that even then,
when this Ill-pause was making his speech to the townsmen, my Lord
Innocency (whether by a shot from the camp of the giant, or from
some sinking qualm that suddenly took him, or whether by the
stinking breath of that treacherous villain old Ill-pause, for so I
am most apt to think) sunk down in the place where he stood, nor
could be brought to life again. Thus these two brave men died--
brave men, I call them; for they were the beauty and glory of
Mansoul, so long as they lived therein; nor did there now remain
any more a noble spirit in Mansoul; they all fell down and yielded
obedience to Diabolus; and became his slaves and vassals, as you
shall hear.
Now these being dead, what do the rest of the townsfolk, but, as
men that had found a fool's paradise, they presently, as afore was
hinted, fall to prove the truth of the giant's words.
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