Wherefore, missing of the help that he expected from
them, and finding his army warmly attended with the stones that the
slingers did sling, (for that I will say for the captains, that
considering the weakness that yet was upon them by reason of the
long sickness that had annoyed the town of Mansoul, they did
gallantly behave themselves,) he was forced to make some retreat
from Mansoul, and to entrench himself and his men in the field
without the reach of the slings of the town.
Now having entrenched himself, he did cast up four mounts against
the town: the first he called Mount Diabolus, putting his own name
thereon, the more to affright the town of Mansoul; the other three
he called thus--Mount Alecto, Mount Megara, and Mount Tisiphone;
for these are the names of the dreadful furies of hell. Thus he
began to play his game with Mansoul, and to serve it as doth the
lion his prey, even to make it fall before his terror. But, as I
said, the captains and soldiers resisted so stoutly, and did do
such execution with their stones, that they made him, though
against stomach, to retreat, wherefore Mansoul began to take
courage.
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