oe, at the invitation of the judge, came forth from the garret
wherein he abode, and rode in a cart unto the Royal Exchange, wherein he
ascended the pillory, to the end that his ears might be nailed thereunto.
And much people stood before him, some few pelting, some mocking, but the
most part cheering or weeping, for they knew him for a friend to the poor,
and especially those men who were called Dissenters. And a certain person
in black stood by him, invisible to the people, but well seen of Daniel,
who knew him for one whose life he had himself written. And the man in
black reasoned with Daniel, and said, "Thou seest this multitude of people,
but which of them shall deliver thee out of my hand? Nay, but let thy white
be black, and thy black white, and I myself will deliver thee, and make
thee rich, and heal thy hurts, save the holes in thy ears, that I may know
thee for mine own." But Daniel gave no heed to him. So the Devil departed,
having great wrath, and entered into a certain smug-faced man standing by.

And now the crowd before Daniel was greatly diminished, and consisted
mainly of his enemies, for his friends had gone away to drown their sorrow.
And the smug-faced man into whom Satan had entered came forth from among
them, and said unto him, "O Daniel, inasmuch as I am a Dissenter I am
greatly beholden to thee; but inasmuch as I am an honest tradesman I have
somewhat against thee, for thou hast written concerning short weights and
measures. And a man's shop is more to him than his country or his religion.
Wherefore I must needs be avenged of thee. Yet shalt thou own that the
tender mercies of the good man are piteous, and that even in his wrath he
thinketh upon compassion."

And he picked up a great stone from the ground, and wrapped it in a piece
of paper, saying, "Lest peradventure it hurt him overmuch." And the stone
was very rough and sharp, and the paper was very thin. And he hurled it
with all his might at the middle of Daniel's forehead, and the blood
spouted forth. And Daniel cried aloud, and called upon the name of the
Devil. And in an instant the pillory and the people were gone, and he found
himself in the Prime Minister's cabinet, healed of all his hurts, except
the holes in his ears. And the Minister was so like the Devil that you
could not tell the difference. And he said, "Against what wilt thou write
first, Daniel?"

"Dissenters," said Daniel.

And he wrote a pamphlet, and such as read it too