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and those that had been pretended Saints in the other world; but, how they did squabble, fight, and tear one another? Not far from them lay the Whoremongers and Adulterers, who made such a hideous noise that he was very much startled. Walking down a few steps, he spied an incredible number, almost hid with smoke; he asked what they were? The Spirit told him they were millers and bakers; but, good lack, what a noise was there among them! The millers crying to the bakers, and the bakers to the millers for help but all was in vain, for there was none to help them. Passing on farther he saw thousands of shop-keepers some of whom he knew, who were tormented for defrauding and cheating their customers. Having taken this prospect of Hell, the Spirit Mephostophiles took him in his arms and carried him home to his own house, where he awaking, was amazed at what he had seen in his dream. Being come to himself, he asked the Spirit in what place Hell was, and who made it? Mephostophiles answered, 'Knowest thou, that before the fall of Lucifer, there was no hell, but upon his fall, was hell ordained. As for the substance of hell, we devils do not know; it is the wrath of God that makes hell so furious, and what we procured by our fall: But where hell is, or how it is governed,