The Holy War – John Bunyan

Now when he was come to the castle gates, he commanded Diabolus to
appear, and to surrender himself into his hands. But oh! how loath was the
beast to appear! How he stuck at it! How he shrunk! aye, how he cringed!
Yet out he came to the Prince. Then Emmanuel commanded, and they took
Diabolus and bound him fast in chains, the better to reserve him to the
judgment that he had appointed for him. But Diabolus stood up to entreat for
himself, that Emmanuel would not send him into the deep, but suffer him to
depart out of Mansoul in peace.
When Emmanuel had taken him and bound him in chains, he led him
into the marketplace, and there, before Mansoul, stripped him of his armour
in which he boasted so much before. This now was one of the acts of triumph
of Emmanuel over his enemy; and all the while that the giant was stripping,
the trumpets of the golden Prince did sound amain; the captains also shouted,
and the soldiers did sing for joy. Then was Mansoul called upon to behold
the beginning of Emmanuel's triumph over him in whom they so much had
trusted, and of whom they so much had boasted in the days when he flattered
them.
Thus having made Diabolus naked in the eyes of Mansoul, and before
the commanders of the Prince, in the next place he commands that Diabolus
should be bound with chains to his chariot wheels. Then leaving some of his
forces, to wit, Captain Boanerges, and Captain Conviction, as a guard for the
castle-gates, that resistance might be made on his behalf, if any that
heretofore followed Diabolus should make an attempt to possess it, he did
ride in triumph over him quite through the town of Mansoul, and so out at,
and before the gate called Eye-gate, to the plain where his camp did lie (Eph
4).
But you cannot think unless you had been there, as I was, what a shout
there was in Emmanuel's camp when they saw the tyrant bound by the hand
of their noble Prince, and tied to his chariot wheels! And they said, He hath
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