" The imp departed at his
bidding, and in the meantime Lucifer and his compeers arose in terror and
exceeding fear, and ordered the levying of the bravest armies of the
black angels; and having disposed them, he himself started foremost to
quell the rebellion, his chieftains and their hosts going other ways.
The royal army, like shafts of lightning across the hideous gloom,
advanced (and we in their rear); ere long the uproar falls upon their
ears; a fiendish bellower cries, "Silence, in the King's name!" to no
purpose, it would be an easier task to hale apart old beavers than one of
these. But when Lucifer's veterans dashed into their midst, the growls,
and blows, and battering lessened. "Silence in Lucifer's name!" roared
the devil a second time. "What is this," demanded the King, "and who are
these?" "Nothing, sire, but that in the general confusion, the drovers
came across the cuckolds, and set a-butting to prove whose horns were the
harder; it might have turned out seriously, had not your horned giants
joined in the affray." "Well," said Lucifer, "since ye are all so ready
with your arms, come with me to trounce the other rebels.
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