The Holy War – John Bunyan

passed, the old Lord Mayor that was so before Diabolus came to the town, to
wit, my Lord Understanding, and the old Recorder, Mr. Conscience, getting
intelligence of what had passed at Ear-gate, for you must know that they
might not be suffered to be at that debate, lest they should then have
mutinied for the captains. But, I say, they got intelligence what had passed
there, and were much concerned therewith, wherefore, they, getting some of
the town together, began to possess them with the reasonableness of the
noble captains' demands, and with the bad consequences that would follow
upon the speech of old Incredulity, the Lord Mayor--to wit, how little
reverence he showed therein, either to the captains, or to their King; also,
how he implicitly charged them with unfaithfulness, and treachery: for what
less, quoth they, could be made of his words, when he said he would not
yield to their proposition, and added, moreover, a supposition that he would
destroy us when before he had sent us word that he would show us
mercy.[17] The multitude being now possessed with the conviction of the
evil that old Incredulity had done, began to run together by companies in all
places, and in every corner of the streets of Mansoul; and first they began to
mutter, then to talk openly, and after that they run to and fro, and cried as
they run, 'O the brave captains of Shaddai! Would we were under the
government of the captains, and of Shaddai their King.'[18] When the Lord
Mayor had intelligence that Mansoul was in an uproar, down he comes to
appease the people, and thought to have quashed their heat with the bigness
and the show of his countenance. But when they saw him, they came running
upon him, and had doubtless done him a mischief, had he not betaken
himself to house. However, they strongly assaulted the house where he was,
to have pulled it down about his ears; but the place was too strong, so they
failed of that. So he taking some courage addressed himself, out at a window,
to the people in this manner:--
'Gentlemen, what is the reason that there is here such an uproar to-day?'
UND. Then answered my Lord Unders-tanding: 'It is even because that
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