'And,' said he, 'that which was dark
therein hath my lord the Lord Secretary expounded unto me.' He
told them, moreover, what by himself and by them must be done to
answer the mind of their Lord. Then were the captains glad; and
Captain Credence commanded that all the King's trumpeters should
ascend to the battlements of the castle, and there, in the audience
of Diabolus and of the whole town of Mansoul, make the best music
that heart could invent. The trumpeters then did as they were
commanded. They got themselves up to the top of the castle, and
thus they began to sound. Then did Diabolus start, and said, 'What
can be the meaning of this? they neither sound Boot-and-saddle, nor
Horse-and-away, nor a charge. What do these madmen mean that yet
they should be so merry and glad?' Then answered one of themselves
and said, 'This is for joy that their Prince Emmanuel is coming to
relieve the town of Mansoul; and to this end he is at the head of
an army, and that this relief is near.'
The men of Mansoul also were greatly concerned at this melodious
charm of the trumpets; they said, yea, they answered one another,
saying, 'This can be no harm to us; surely this can be no harm to
us.
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