The Holy War – John Bunyan

The Bloodmen are a people that have their name derived from the
malignity of their nature, and from the fury that is in them to execute it upon
the town of Mansoul; their land lieth under the Dog-star, and by that they are
governed as to their intellectuals.
The name of their country is the Province of Loath-good, the remote
parts of it are far distant from the Land of Doubting, yet they do both but and
bound upon the hill called Hellgate- hill. These people are always in league
with the Doubters, for they jointly do make question of the faith and fidelity
of the men of the town of Mansoul, and so are both alike qualified for the
service of their prince.
Now of these two countries did Diabolus, by the beating of his drum,
raise another army against the town of Mansoul, of five and twenty thousand
strong. There were ten thousand Doubters and fifteen thousand Bloodmen,
and they were put under several captains for the war, and old Incredulity was
again made general of the army.
As for the Doubters, their captains were five of the seven that were
heads of the last Diabolonian army, and these are their names, Captain
Beelzebub, Captain Lucifer, Captain Apollyon, Captain Legion, and Captain
Cerberus, and the captains that they had before were some of them made
lieutenants, and some ensigns in the army.
But Diabolus did not count that in this expedition of his, these Doubters
would prove his principal men, for their manhood had been tried before, also
the Mansoulians had put them to the worst, only he did bring them to
multiply a number, and to help, if need was, at a pinch; but his trust he put in
his Bloodmen, for that they were all rugged villains, and he knew that they
had done feats heretofore.[2]
As for the Bloodmen, they also were under command, and the names of
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