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As is the saying of the wise , `` all that cometh is vanity . '' -LSB- Eccl . 1 ; 2:11,17 ; 11:8 ; Isa . 11:17 -RSB- -LCB- 216 -RCB- This fair is no new-erected business , but a thing of ancient standing ; I will show you the original of it . Almost five thousand years agone , there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City , as these two honest persons are : and Beelzebub , Apollyon , and Legion , with their companions , perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made , that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity , they contrived here to set up a fair ; a fair wherein , should be sold all sorts of vanity , and that it should last all the year long : therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold , as houses , lands , trades , places , honours , preferments , titles , countries , kingdoms , lusts , pleasures , and delights of all sorts , as whores , bawds , wives , husbands , children , masters , servants , lives , blood , bodies , souls , silver , gold , pearls , precious stones , and what not . And , moreover , at this fair there is at all times to be seen juggling cheats , games , plays , fools , apes , knaves , and rogues , and that of every kind . Here are to be seen , too , and that for nothing , thefts , murders , adulteries , false swearers , and that of a blood-red colour .