So when my Lord Willbewill had sufficient
ground to believe the thing was true, he takes the two young
Diabolonians, (for such they were, for their father was a
Diabolonian born,) and has them to Eye-gate, where he raised a very
high cross, just in the face of Diabolus, and of his army, and
there he hanged the young villains, in defiance to Captain Past-
Hope, and of the horrible standard of the tyrant.
Now this Christian act of the brave Lord Willbewill did greatly
abash Captain Past-Hope, discouraged the army of Diabolus, put fear
into the Diabolonian runagates in Mansoul, and put strength and
courage into the captains that belonged to Emmanuel, the Prince;
for they without did gather, and that by this very act of my Lord,
that Mansoul was resolved to fight, and that the Diabolonians
within the town could not do such things as Diabolus had hopes they
would. Nor was this the only proof of the brave Lord Willbewill's
honesty to the town, nor of his loyalty to his Prince, as will
afterwards appear.
Now, when the children of Prudent-Thrifty, who dwelt with Mr. Mind,
(for Thrift left children with Mr.
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