us; yea, and to desire us too to come in to them. And the reason
why I think that this project will do is, because the people of
Mansoul now are, every one, simple and innocent, all honest and
true; nor do they as yet know what it is to be assaulted with
fraud, guile, and hypocrisy. They are strangers to lying and
dissembling lips; wherefore we cannot, if thus we be disguised, by
them at all be discerned; our lies shall go for true sayings, and
our dissimulations for upright dealings. What we promise them they
will in that believe us, especially if, in all our lies and feigned
words, we pretend great love to them, and that our design is only
their advantage and honour.' Now there was not one bit of a reply
against this; this went as current down as doth the water down a
steep descent. Wherefore they go to consider of the last proposal,
which was:

4. Whether they had not best to give out orders to some of their
company to shoot some one or more of the principal of the townsmen,
if they judge that their cause may be promoted thereby. This was
carried in the affirmative, and the man that was designed by this
stratagem to be destroyed was one Mr. Resistance, otherwise called
Captain Resistance. And a great man in Mansoul this Captain
Resistance was, and a man that the giant Diabolus and his band more
feared than they feared the whole town of Mansoul besides. Now who
should be the actor to do the murder? That was the next, and they
appointed one Tisiphone, a fury of the lake, to do it.

They thus having ended their council of war, rose up, and essayed
to do as they had determined; they marched towards Mansoul, but all
in a manner invisible, save one, only one; nor did he approach the
town in his own likeness, but under the shade and in the body of