[The multitude, including the Sexton and Schoolmaster, throng around him. Brand is lifted on to their shoulders.

Many Voices.

’Tis a great Time! Visions fair

Dazzle through the noontide glare.

[The great mass of the assemblage streams away up the valley; a few remain.

The Dean.

[To the departing crowd.]

O, ye blinded ones, what would you?

Lo! behind his seeming sooth

Satan scheming to delude you!