For there, visible to all, Satan himself strolled towards them.

On his head were horns, behind his back hung down a tail, his body was shaggy like a beast's, and his face hideous and of many colours, while in his hand he held a pronged fork with a long handle.

This way and that rushed the throng, only the Commissioner, who had dismounted, stood still, perhaps because he was too afraid to stir, and with him the women and some of the nuns, including the Prioress, who fell upon their knees and began to utter prayers.
On came the dreadful thing till it reached the King's Visitor, bowing to him and bellowing like a bull, then very deliberately untied some strings and let its horrid garb fall off, revealing the person of Thomas Bolle! "What means this mummery, knave ?" gasped Dr.Legh.
"Mummery do you call it, sir ?" answered Thomas with a grin.

"Well, if so, 'tis on the faith of such mummery that priests burn women in merry England.

Come, good people, come," he roared in his great voice, "come, see Satan in the flesh.