In a minute, for he was practised at the game, the hideous mask was on his head, and with it the horns and skin of the widow's billy-goat; the tail and painted hides were tied about him, and in his hand he waved the eel spear, short-handled now.

Thus arrayed he capered before the astonished King and Queen, shaking the tail that had a wire in it and clattering his hoofs upon the floor.
"Oh, good devil! Most excellent devil!" exclaimed his Majesty, clapping his hands.

"If I had met thee I'd have run like a hare.

Stay, Jane, peep you through yonder door and tell me who are gathered there." The Queen obeyed and, returned, said-- "There be a bishop and a priest, I cannot see which, for it grows dark, with chaplains and sundry of the lords of Council waiting audience." "Good.

Then we'll try the devil on these devil-tamers.