天蓬帥 The Marshal of the Heavenly River
上前來，說與你聽：上前来，说与你听：
逐句解 Line by line
Step up and I will tell you:
The cue, and what follows is the longest single verse run in the chapter — ten lines of it. He was asked his name in four characters and answers in a hundred and forty.
Huge mouth, jutting tusks, and strength of a god; the Jade Emperor raised me to Marshal Tianpeng.
He opens with the very features the fiend has just been staring at, and turns them into credentials. 天蓬 is a real title from Daoist ritual — a marshal of the northern stars — so the boast is not invented, only very old news.
I had command of eighty thousand troops of the Heavenly River; in the palace of heaven it was all pleasure and ease.
天河 is the Milky Way, and he commanded its naval forces. 自在 is at ease, unconstrained — a word that carries a Buddhist charge elsewhere and is here just a man remembering a good posting.
All because I got drunk and made free with a palace maid, and in that moment sold the hero clean away.
The fall in fourteen characters. 戲 is to make sport of or take liberties with — the offence that got him thrown out of heaven, told here without a shred of remorse. 把英雄賣, sold the hero, is him talking about himself in the third person as a thing he traded away.
The boast is a résumé, and the shape of it is a life told backwards from a good job to a bad end. He gets three lines of glory before the drink appears.
It rhymes ten closes for ten, and two of those look off in modern Mandarin. They are not. 界 and 戒 sat in the same rime group as the other eight when this was written, and the difference is four centuries of sound change, not a slack line.