Justice brings
three prisoners to Hell and returning causes such a rush of fiery
whirlwinds that all the infernal lords are swept away into the Uttermost
Hell.
The Bard hears the din of arms and news comes that the Turks, Papists,
and Roundheads are advancing in three armies. Lucifer and his hosts
immediately set out to meet them and after a stubborn contest succeed in
quelling the rebellion. More prisoners are brought before the King--
Catholics, who had missed the way to Paradise, an innkeeper, five kings,
assize-men and lawyers, gipsies, laborers and scholars. Scarcely is
judgment passed on these than war again breaks out--soldiers and doctors,
lawyers and userers, misers and their own offspring, are fighting each
other. The leaders of this revolt having been taken, another parliament
is called and more prisoners yet brought to trial.
Lucifer asks the advice of his peers as to whom he should appoint his
viceroy in Britain. Cerberus, first of all, offers the service of
Tobacco; then Mammon speaks in praise of Gold and Apolyon tells what
Pride can do; Asmodai, the demon of Lust, Belphegor. the demon of Sloth,
and Satan, devil of Delusion, each pleads for his own pet sin; and after
Beelzebub has spoken in favour of Thoughtlessness, Lucifer sums up,
weighs their arguments, and finally announces that it is another he has
chosen as his vicegerent in Britain.
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