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spirit told him they were witches, and those who had been pretended Saints in the other world; but how they did squabble, fight, and tear one another! Not far from them, lay the whore mongers and adulterers, who who made such a hideous noise that he was very much startled. Walking down a few steps he espied 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 crying to the millers millers for help, but all was in vain, for there was none to help them. Passing on still 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, when he awaking, he was amazed at what he saw in his dream. So 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
