The Prince of princes himself, when here, went
through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day
too; yea, and as I think,
it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited him
to buy of his vanities; yea, would have made him lord of the
fair, would he but have done him reverence as he went through
the town. Yea, because he was such a person of honour, Beelzebub
had him from street to street, and shewed him all the kingdoms
of the world in a little time, that he might, if possible,
allure the Blessed One to cheapen and buy some of his vanities;
but he had no mind to the merchandise, and therefore left the
town, without laying out so much as one farthing upon these
vanities. This fair, therefore, is an ancient thing, of long
standing, and a very great fair. Now these pilgrims, as I said,
must needs go through this fair. Well, so they did: but, behold,
even as they entered into the fair, all the people in the fair
were moved, and the town itself as it were in a hubbub about
them; and that for several reasons: for --
First, The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as
was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair.
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