And moreover many of your fiends, and of the lost whom you
sent to the world to tempt men, have not returned, although their time is
up, and others have come, but hide rather than give an account of their
doings."
Then commanded Lucifer his herald to summon a second Parliament, and in
the twinkling of an eye all the potentates and their officers were again
in attendance at their infernal Eisteddfod. The first thing done was to
change the officers, and to order a place to be made round the mouth of
the pit for the Swaggerer and the Huntress, linked face to face, and for
the other rebels, bound topsy-turvy together; and a law was published
that whosoever of the demons or of the damned thenceforth transgressed
his duty should be thrown into their midst till doomsday. At these words
all the fiends and even Lucifer himself trembled and were sore perturbed.
Then next came the trial of the devils and the lost who had been sent to
earth to find "associates and co-partners of their loss;" the devils gave
a clear account, but the statement of the damned was so hazy and
uncertain, that they were driven to the ever-burning school, and there
scourged with fiery, knotted serpents to teach them their task the
better.
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