it. Aye, the town itself had positive commission and power from
her King to demand service of all, and also to subdue any that
anyways denied to do it.

There was reared up in the midst of this town a most famous and
stately palace; for strength, it might be called a castle; for
pleasantness, a paradise; for largeness, a place so copious as to
contain all the world. This place the King Shaddai intended but
for himself alone, and not another with him; partly because of his
own delights, and partly because he would not that the terror of
strangers should be upon the town. This place Shaddai made also a
garrison of, but committed the keeping of it only to the men of the
town.

The walls of the town were well built, yea, so fast and firm were
they knit and compact together, that, had it not been for the
townsmen themselves, they could not have been shaken or broken for
ever. For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that builded
Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the
most mighty adverse potentate, unless the townsmen gave consent
thereto.

This famous town of Mansoul had five gates, in at which to come,
out at which to go; and these were made likewise answerable to the
walls, to wit, impregnable, and such as could never be opened nor
forced but by the will and leave of those within. The names of the
gates were these: Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and
Feel-gate.

Other things there were that belonged to the town of Mansoul, which