is called and more prisoners yet brought to trial.

Lucifer asks the advice of his peers as to whom he should appoint his
viceroy in Britain. Cerberus, first of all, offers the service of
Tobacco; then Mammon speaks in praise of Gold and Apolyon tells what
Pride can do; Asmodai, the demon of Lust, Belphegor. the demon of Sloth,
and Satan, devil of Delusion, each pleads for his own pet sin; and after
Beelzebub has spoken in favour of Thoughtlessness, Lucifer sums up,
weighs their arguments, and finally announces that it is another he has
chosen as his vicegerent in Britain. This other is Prosperity, and her
he bids them follow and obey. Then the lost Archangel and his
counsellors are hurled into the Bottomless Pit, and the Angel takes the
Bard up to the vault of Hell where he has full view of a three-faced
ogress, Sin, who would make of heaven, a hell, and thence departing, a
heaven of hell. The Angel then leaves him, bidding him, as he went, to
write down what he had seen for the benefit of others.



TO THE READER.



Let whoso reads, consider;
Considering, remember,
And from remembering, do,
And doing, so continue.
Whoso abides in Virtue's paths,
And ever strives until the end
From sinful bondage to be free,