Thus, if we get our goods and commodities thither, I
reckon that the castle is more than half ours. Besides, could we
so order it that it shall be filled with such kind of wares, then
if we made a sudden assault upon them, it would be hard for the
captains to take shelter there. Do you not know that of the
parable, "The deceitfulness of riches choke the word"? and again,
"When the heart is over-charged with surfeiting and drunkenness,
and the cares of this life," all mischief comes upon them at
unawares?
'Furthermore, my lords,' quoth he, 'you very well know that it is
not easy for a people to be filled with our things, and not to have
some of our Diabolonians as retainers to their houses and services.
Where is a Mansoulian that is full of this world, that has not for
his servants and waiting-men, Mr. Profuse, or Mr. Prodigality, or
some other of our Diabolonian gang, as Mr. Voluptuous, Mr.
Pragmatical, Mr. Ostentation, or the like? Now these can take the
castle of Mansoul, or blow it up, or make it unfit for a garrison
for Emmanuel, and any of these will do. Yea, these, for aught I
know, may do it for us sooner than an army of twenty thousand men.
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