When Captain Credence heard this, away goes he to the rest of the captains, and tells them what a note he had a while since received from the hand of Emmanuel.  ‘And,’ said he, ’that which was dark therein hath my lord the Lord Secretary expounded unto me.’  He told them, moreover, what by himself and by them must be done to answer the mind of their Lord.  Then were the captains glad; and Captain Credence commanded that all the King’s trumpeters should ascend to the battlements of the castle, and there, in the audience of Diabolus and of the whole town of Mansoul, make the best music that heart could invent.  The trumpeters then did as they were commanded.  They got themselves up to the top of the castle, and thus they began to sound.  Then did Diabolus start, and said, ’What can be the meaning of this? they neither sound Boot-and-saddle, nor Horse-and-away, nor a charge.  What do these madmen mean that yet they should be so merry and glad?’ Then answered one of themselves and said, ’This is for joy that their Prince Emmanuel is coming to relieve the town of Mansoul; and to this end he is at the head of an army, and that this relief is near.’

The men of Mansoul also were greatly concerned at this melodious charm of the trumpets; they said, yea, they answered one another, saying, ’This can be no harm to us; surely this can be no harm to us.’  Then said the Diabolonians, ‘What had we best to do?’ and it was answered, ‘It was best to quit the town;’ and ‘that,’ said one, ’ye may do in pursuance of your last counsel, and by so doing also be better able to give the enemy battle, should an army from without come upon us.  So, on the second day, they withdrew themselves from Mansoul, and abode in the plains without; but they encamped themselves before Eye-gate, in what terrene and terrible manner they could.  The reason why they would not abide in the town (besides the reasons that were debated in their late conclave) was, for that they were not possessed of the stronghold, and ‘because,’ said they, ’we shall have more convenience to fight, and also to fly, if need be, when we are encamped in the open plains.’  Besides, the town would have been a pit for them rather than a place of defence, had the Prince come up and inclosed them fast therein.  Therefore they betook themselves to the field, that they might also be out of the reach of the slings, by which they were much annoyed all the while that they were in the town.

Well, the time that the captains were to fall upon the Diabolonians being come, they eagerly prepared themselves for action; for Captain Credence had told the captains over night, that they should meet their Prince in the field to-morrow.  This, therefore, made them yet far more desirous to be engaging the enemy; for ’You shall see the Prince in the field to-morrow’ was like oil to a flaming fire, for of a long time they had been at a distance:  they therefore were for this the more earnest and desirous of the work.  So, as I said, the hour