" But when the
rumour reached these that Lucifer was approaching with three horned
armies, everyone made for his lair.
So he marched on across the desolate plains unresisted, and seeking in
vain the cause of the revolt. After a while, however, one of the King's
spies returns, quite out of breath: "Most noble, Lucifer! Moloch, your
prince, hath subdued part of the North, and hath cut thousands to pieces
upon the glaciers, but there are three or four dangerous evils still
threatening you." "Whom meanest thou?" asked Lucifer. "The Slanderer,
the Busybody, and the Lawmonger, have broken out of their prisons and got
free." "No wonder then," said the Evil One, "if further troubles arise."
Then there comes another spy from the South, informing that matters would
soon reach a dire pass in that quarter if the three who had already
thrown the West into utter confusion be not taken, namely, the Huntress,
the Rogue and the Swaggerer. "Since the day I tempted Adam from his
garden," said Satan, who stood next but one to Lucifer, "I have never
seen so many evils of his race at liberty together. The Huntress, the
Swaggerer, the Rogue, on the one hand, and on the other, the Slanderer,
the Lawmonger and the Busybody--a mixture would make devils reach.
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