We therefore are still contriving, and that to the best
of our cunning, to make this work most facile and easy to your
lordships, and to us.
'First, we considered of that most hellishly cunning, compacted,
threefold project, that by you was propounded to us in your last;
and have concluded, that though to blow them up with the gunpowder
of pride would do well, and to do it by tempting them to be loose
and vain will help on, yet to contrive to bring them into the gulf
of desperation, we think will do best of all. Now we, who are at
your beck, have thought or two ways to do this: first we, for our
parts, will make them as vile as we can, and then you with us, at a
time appointed, shall be ready to fall upon them with the utmost
force. And of all the nations that are at your whistle, we think
that an army of doubters may be the most likely to attack and
overcome the town of Mansoul. Thus shall we overcome these
enemies, else the pit shall open her mouth upon them, and
desperation shall thrust them down into it. We have also, to
effect this so much by us desired design, sent already three of our
trusty Diabolonians among them; they are disguised in garb, they
have changed their names, and are now accepted of them; namely,
Covetousness, Lasciviousness, and Anger.
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