THE
VISIONS
OF
Dom
Francisco
de
Quevedo
VILLEGAS
,
KNIGHT
of
the
ORDER
OF
St
IAMES
.
Made
English
by
R.
L.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
H.
Herringman
at
the
Sign
of
the
Blew
Anchor
in
the
Lower
walk
of
the
New
Exchange
.
1667.
LICENSED
,
March
26th
1667.
TO
THE
READERS
,
GENTLE
and
SIMPLE
.
THis
Preface
is
meerly
for
Fashion-sake
,
to
fill
a
space
,
and
please
the
Stationer
,
who
says
't
is
neither
usual
not
handsome
,
to
leap
immediately
from
the
Title-Page
to
the
Matter
.
So
that
in
short
,
a
Preface
ye
have
,
together
with
the
Reason
of
it
,
both
under
One
:
but
as
to
the
Ordinary
Mode
and
Pretence
of
Prefaces
,
the
Translator
desires
to
be
excus'd
.
For
he
makes
a
Conscience
of
a
Lye
,
and
it
were
a
damn'd
one
,
to
tell
ye
,
that
he
has
publisht
This
,
either
to
Gratifie
the
importunity
of
Friends
,
or
to
Oblige
the
Publick
,
or
for
any
other
Reason
of
a
hundred
,
that
are
commonly
given
in
excuse
of
Scribling
.
Not
but
that
he
loves
his
Friends
,
as
well
as
any
man
,
and
has
taken
their
Opinion
along
with
him
.
Nor
,
but
that
he
loves
the
Publick
too
(
as
many
a
Man
does
a
Coy
Mistress
that
has
made
his
heart
ake
.
)
But
to
pass
from
what
had
no
effect
upon
him
in
this
Publication
,
to
that
which
over-rul'd
him
in
it
.
It
was
pure
Spite
.
For
he
has
had
hard
Measure
among
the
Physicians
,
the
Lawyers
,
the
Women
,
&c.
And
Dom
Francisco
de
Quevedo
,
in
English
,
Revenges
him
upon
all
his
Enemies
.
For
it
is
a
Satyre
(
in
fine
)
that
taxes
Corruption
of
Manners
,
in
all
sorts
and
degrees
of
people
,
without
reflecting
upon
particular
States
or
Persons
.
It
is
full
of
Sharpness
and
Morality
;
and
has
found
so
good
Entertainment
in
the
World
,
that
it
wanted
only
English
,
of
being
baptiz'd
into
all
Christian
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THE
FIRST
VISION
OF
THE
Algouazil
(
or
Catchpole
)
possest
.
I
Was
going
t'
other
day
to
hear
Mass
at
a
Convent
in
this
Town
,
but
the
door
it
seems
was
shut
,
and
a
world
of
people
pressing
and
begging
to
get
in
;
I
ask'd
,
What
was
the
matter
?
They
told
me
that
there
was
a
Demoniac
to
be
exorcised
(
or
dispossest
)
:
Whereupon
,
I
thrust
into
the
Crowd
for
company
,
to
see
the
Ceremony
;
but
to
little
purpose
:
for
after
I
had
half
smothered
my self
in
the
throng
,
I
was
e'en
glad
to
get
out
again
,
and
bethink
my self
of
my
Lodging
.
Upon
my
way
homeward
,
at
the
streets
end
,
it
was
my
fortune
to
meet
a
familiar
friend
of
mine
of
the
same
Convent
;
who
told
me
over
again
what
I
had
heard
before
,
and
taking
notice
of
my
curiosity
,
bad
me
follow
him
;
which
I
did
,
and
with
his
Passe-par-tout
he
brought
me
through
a
little
back-door
into
the
Church
,
and
so
into
the
Vestry
,
where
we
saw
a
wretched
kind
of
a
dog-look'd
fellow
,
with
a
Tippet
about
his
neck
,
as
ill
ordered
as
you
'd
wish
;
his
Cloaths
all
in
tatters
,
his
hands
bound
behind
him
,
roaring
and
tearing
after
a
most
hideous
manner
.
Bless
me
,
quoth
I
,
(
crossing
my self
)
what
spectacle
have
we
here
?
This
(
said
the
good
Father
who
was
to
do
the
Feat
)
is
a
man
that
's
possest
with
an
Evil-spirit
.
That
's
a
damn'd
lye
(
with
respect
of
the
Company
,
cryed
the
Devil
that
tormented
him
)
for
this
is
not
a
man
possest
with
a
Devil
,
but
a
Devil
possest
with
a
man
;
and
therefore
you
should
do
well
to
have
a
care
what
you
say
,
for
both
by
the
Question
and
Answer
it
is
most
evident
,
that
you
are
but
a
Company
of
Sots
.
You
are
to
understand
that
we
Devils
never
enter
into
the
body
of
a
Catchpole
,
but
by
force
,
and
in
spight
of
our
hearts
;
and
therefore
to
speak
properly
,
you
are
to
say
,
This
is
a
Devil
Catchpol'd
,
and
not
a
Catchpole
bedevil'd
.
To
say
the
truth
,
you
men
can
deal
better
with
us
Devils
,
than
with
the
Catchpoles
,
for
we
fly
from
the
Cross
,
whereas
They
make
use
of
it
for
a
Cloak
for
their
villany
.
There
is
somewhat
a
better
agreement
,
I
must
confess
,
between
our
Offices
:
If
we
draw
men
into
Iudgment
and
Condemnation
,
so
do
the
Catchpoles
;
we
pray
for
an
encrease
of
wickedness
in
the
world
,
so
do
they
;
nay
and
more
zealously
than
we
,
for
it
is
their
livelihood
,
and
we
do
it
only
for
company
:
And
in
this
,
the
Catchpoles
are
worse
than
the
Devils
,
they
prey
upon
their
own
Kind
,
and
worry
one
another
;
for
our
parts
we
are
Angels
still
,
though
black
ones
,
and
were
turn'd
into
Devils
only
for
aspiring
into
an
equality
with
our
Maker
:
whereas
the
very
corruption
of
mankind
is
the
generation
of
a
Catchpole
;
so
that
,
my
good
Father
,
your
labour
is
but
lost
in
plying
this
Wretch
with
Reliques
;
for
you
may
as
soon
redeem
any
thing
from
Hell
as
(
be
it
never
so
holy
,
if
he
once
seizes
it
)
out
of
his
Clutches
.
In
fine
,
your
Algou●zils
(
or
Catchpoles
)
and
your
Devils
are
both
of
an
Order
,
only
your
Catchpole
Devils
wear
Shoes
and
Stockings
,
and
we
go
barefoot
after
the
Fashion
of
this
reverend
Father
,
and
(
to
deal
plainly
)
have
a
very
hard
time
on
't
.
I
was
not
a
little
surprized
to
find
the
Devil
so
great
a
Sophister
,
but
all
this
notwithstanding
,
the
holy
man
went
on
with
his
Exorcism
,
and
to
stop
the
Spirits
mouth
,
washt
his
face
with
a
little
Holy
Water
,
which
made
the
Demoniac
ten
times
madder
than
before
,
and
set
him
a
yelping
so
horridly
,
that
it
deafned
the
company
,
and
made
the
very
ground
under
us
to
tremble
.
And
now
,
says
he
,
you
may
,
perchance
,
imagine
this
extravagance
to
be
the
effect
of
your
Holy
Water
;
but
let
me
tell
you
,
that
meer
Water
it self
would
have
done
the
same
thing
;
for
your
Catchpole
hates
nothing
in
this
world
like
Water
,
[
especially
that
of
a
Grays-Inne
Pump
.
]
But
to
conclude
,
They
are
so
reprobated
a
sort
of
Christians
,
that
they
have
quitted
even
the
very
name
of
Misins
,
by
which
they
were
formerly
known
,
for
that
of
Algouazils
;
the
latter
being
of
Pagan
extraction
,
and
made
suitable
to
their
manners
.
Come
,
come
,
says
the
Father
,
there
is
no
ear
,
nor
credit
to
be
given
to
this
Villain
,
set
but
his
tongue
at
liberty
,
and
you
shall
have
him
fall
foul
upon
the
Government
,
and
the
Ministers
of
Justice
,
for
keeping
the
World
in
Order
and
suppressing
wickedness
,
because
it
spoils
his
market
.
No
more
chopping
of
Logick
,
good
Mr.
Conjurer
,
says
the
Devil
,
for
there
's
more
in
't
than
you
are
aware
of
;
but
if
you
'l
do
a
poor
Devil
a
good
office
,
give
me
my
dispatch
out
of
this
accursed
Algouazil
;
for
I
am
a
Devil
,
you
must
know
,
of
Reputation
and
Quality
,
and
shall
never
be
able
to
endure
the
gibes
and
affronts
will
be
put
upon
me
at
my
return
to
Hell
,
for
having
kept
this
Rascal
company
.
All
in
good
time
,
said
the
Father
,
thou
shalt
have
thy
discharge
,
but
in
pity
to
this
miserable
Creature
,
and
not
for
thy
own
sake
.
But
tell
me
now
,
what
makes
thee
torment
him
thus
?
Nothing
in
the
world
,
quoth
the
Devil
,
but
a
contest
betwixt
him
and
me
,
which
was
the
greater
Devil
of
the
two
.
The
Conjurer
did
not
at
all
relish
these
wild
and
malicious
replies
;
but
●o
me
the
Dialogue
was
extream
pleasant
,
especially
being
by
this
time
a
little
familiariz'd
with
the
Devil
.
Upon
which
confidence
my
Good
Father
,
said
I
,
here
are
none
but
Friends
;
and
I
may
speak
to
you
as
my
Confessour
,
and
the
Confident
of
all
the
secrets
of
my
soul
;
I
have
a
great
mind
with
your
leave
,
to
ask
the
Devil
a
few
Questions
,
and
who
knows
but
a
man
may
be
the
better
for
his
Answers
,
though
perchance
contrary
to
his
intention
!
keep
him
only
in
the
interim
from
tormenting
the
poor
creature
.
The
Conjurer
granted
my
request
,
and
the
Spirit
went
on
with
his
babble
:
Well
,
says
he
smiling
,
the
Devil
shall
never
want
a
Friend
at
Court
,
so
long
as
there
's
a
Poet
within
the
Walls
.
And
indeed
the
Poets
do
us
many
a
good
turn
,
both
by
Pimping
and
otherwise
;
but
if
you
,
said
he
,
should
not
be
kind
to
us
,
(
looking
upon
me
)
you
'l
bethought
very
ungrateful
,
considering
the
honour
of
your
entertainment
now
in
Hell
.
I
ask't
him
then
what
store
of
Poets
they
had
?
whole
swarms
,
says
the
Devil
;
so
many
,
that
we
have
been
forc'd
to
make
more
room
for
them
:
Nor
is
there
any
thing
in
nature
so
pleasant
as
a
Poet
in
the
first
year
of
his
probation
;
he
comes
ye
laden
forsooth
with
Letters
of
Recommendation
to
our
Superiours
,
and
enquires
very
gravely
for
Charon
,
Cerberus
,
Rhadamanthus
,
AEacus
,
Minos
.
Well
said
I
,
but
what
's
their
punishment
(
for
I
began
now
to
make
the
Poets
case
my
own
)
Their
punishments
,
quoth
the
Devil
,
are
many
,
and
suited
to
the
Trade
they
drive
.
Some
are
condemn'd
to
hear
other
mens
works
:
(
and
this
is
the
plague
of
the
Fidlers
too
)
We
have
others
that
are
in
for
a
thousand
year
,
and
yet
still
poring
upon
some
old
Stanzas
they
have
made
of
Jealousie
.
Some
again
are
beating
their
fore-heads
with
the
palms
of
their
hands
,
and
even
boring
their
very
Noses
with
hot
Irons
,
in
rage
that
they
cannot
come
to
a
resolution
,
whether
they
shall
say
Face
or
Visage
;
whether
they
shall
write
Iayl
or
Gaol
;
whether
Cony
or
Cunny
,
because
it
comes
from
Cuniculus
,
a
Rabbet
.
Others
are
biting
their
Nails
to
the
quick
,
and
at
their
Wits
end
for
a
Rime
to
Chimney
;
and
dozing
up
and
down
in
a
brown
study
,
till
they
drop
into
some
hole
at
last
,
and
give
us
trouble
enough
to
get
them
out
again
.
But
they
that
suffer
the
most
,
and
fare
the
worst
,
are
your
Comick
Poets
,
for
whoring
so
many
Queens
and
Princesses
upon
the
stage
,
and
coupling
Ladies
of
Honour
with
Lacquies
,
and
Noblemen
with
common
Strumpets
,
in
the
winding
up
of
their
Plays
;
and
for
giving
the
Bastonado
to
Alexander
and
Iulius
Caesar
in
their
Interludes
and
Farces
.
Now
be
it
known
to
you
,
that
we
do
not
lodge
these
with
other
Poets
,
but
with
Petty-foggers
and
Attournies
,
as
common
dealers
in
the
mystery
of
Shifting
,
Shuffling
,
Forging
,
and
Cheating
:
And
now
for
the
discipline
of
Hell
,
you
are
to
understand
we
have
incomparable
Harbingers
and
Quarter-masters
;
insomuch
that
let
them
come
in
whole
Caravans
,
as
it
hapn'd
t'
other
day
,
every
man
is
in
his
quarter
before
you
can
say
what
's
this
.
There
came
to
us
several
Tradesmen
;
the
first
of
them
a
Poor
Rogue
that
made
profession
of
drawing
the
long
Bow
;
and
him
we
were
about
to
put
among
the
Armorers
,
but
one
of
the
company
moved
and
carried
it
,
that
since
he
was
so
good
at
draughts
,
he
might
be
sent
to
the
Clerks
and
Scrivners
;
a
sort
of
people
that
will
fit
you
with
draughts
good
and
bad
,
of
all
sorts
and
sizes
,
and
to
all
purposes
.
Another
called
himself
a
Cutter
,
we
ask'd
him
whether
in
Wood
or
Stone
?
Neither
said
he
,
but
in
Cloth
and
Stuffe
:
(
Anglice
a
Taylor
)
and
him
we
turn'd
over
to
those
that
were
in
for
Detraction
and
Calumny
,
and
for
cutting
large
Thongs
out
of
other
mens
Leather
.
There
was
a
Blind
fellow
would
fain
have
been
among
the
Poets
,
but
(
for
likeness
sake
)
we
quartered
him
among
the
Lovers
.
After
him
,
came
a
Sexton
,
or
(
as
he
styl'd
himself
)
a
Buryer
of
the
Dead
;
and
then
a
Cook
that
was
troubled
in
Conscience
for
putting
off
Catts
for
Hares
:
These
were
dispatch'd
away
to
the
Pastry-men
.
A
matter
of
half
a
dozen
Crack-brain'd
Fools
we
disposed
of
among
the
Astrologers
and
Alchymists
.
In
the
number
,
there
was
one
notorious
Murtherer
,
and
him
we
pack'd
away
to
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Faculty
,
the
Physitians
.
The
Broken
Merchants
we
kennel'd
with
Iudas
for
making
ill
bargains
.
Corrupt
Ministers
and
Magistrates
,
with
the
Thief
on
the
left
hand
.
The
Embroylers
of
Affairs
,
and
the
Water-bearers
take
up
with
the
Vintners
;
and
the
Brokers
with
the
Iews
.
Upon
the
whole
matter
the
policy
of
Hell
is
admirable
,
where
every
man
has
his
place
according
to
his
condition
.
As
I
remember
(
said
I
)
you
were
speaking
e'en
now
concerning
Lovers
.
Pray
tell
me
,
have
you
many
of
them
in
your
Dominions
?
I
ask
,
because
I
am
my self
a
little
subject
to
the
itch
of
Love
,
as
well
as
Poetry
.
Love
(
says
the
Devil
)
is
like
a
great
spot
of
Oyl
,
that
diffuses
it self
every
where
,
and
consequently
Hell
cannot
but
be
sufficiently
stockt
with
that
sort
of
Vermine
.
But
let
me
tell
you
now
,
we
have
several
sorts
of
Lovers
;
some
dote
upon
themselves
;
others
upon
their
Pelf
;
these
upon
their
own
Discourses
;
those
upon
their
own
Actions
;
and
once
in
an
Age
perchance
,
comes
a
fellow
that
dotes
upon
his
own
Wife
;
but
this
is
very
rare
,
for
the
Jades
commonly
bring
their
Husbands
to
repentance
,
and
then
the
Devil
may
throw
his
Cap
at
them
.
But
above
all
,
for
sport
(
if
there
can
be
any
in
Hell
)
commend
me
to
those
Gawdy
Monsieurs
,
who
by
the
variety
of
Colours
and
Ribbands
they
wear
(
Favours
as
they
call
them
)
one
would
swear
,
were
only
dress'd
up
for
a
Sample
,
or
kind
of
Inventory
of
all
the
Gew-Gaws
that
are
to
be
had
for
love
or
money
at
the
Mercers
.
Others
you
shall
have
so
overcharged
with
Perrugue
,
that
you
'l
hardly
know
the
Head
of
a
Cavalier
,
from
the
ordinary
Block
of
a
Tire-woman
.
And
s●me
again
you
'd
take
for
Carriers
,
by
their
pacquets
and
bundles
of
Love-Letters
;
which
being
made
combustible
by
the
fire
and
flame
they
treat
of
,
we
are
so
thrifty
,
as
to
employ
upon
the
sindging
of
their
own
Tailes
,
for
the
saving
of
better
Fuel
.
But
,
oh
!
the
pleasant
postures
of
the
Maiden-Lover
,
when
he
is
upon
the
practice
of
the
Gentle-Leere
,
and
embracing
the
Air
for
his
Mistress
!
Others
we
have
that
are
condemn'd
for
Feeling
,
and
yet
never
come
to
the
Touch
:
These
pass
for
a
kind
of
Buffon
Pretenders
;
ever
upon
the
Vigil
,
and
never
arrive
at
the
Festival
.
Some
again
have
lost
themselves
with
Iudas
for
a
Kiss
.
One
story
lower
is
the
abode
of
contented
Cuckolds
;
a
nasty
poisonous
place
,
and
strewed
all
over
with
the
Horns
of
Rams
and
Bulls
,
&c.
Now
these
are
so
well
read
in
Woman
,
and
know
their
destiny
so
well
before
hand
,
that
they
never
so
much
as
trouble
their
heads
for
the
matter
.
Ye
come
next
to
the
Admirers
of
old
Women
;
and
these
are
wretches
of
so
depraved
an
Appetite
,
that
if
they
were
not
kept
tyed
up
,
and
in
Chains
,
they
'd
horse
the
very
Devils
themselves
,
and
put
Barrabbas
to
his
Trumps
,
to
defend
his
Buttocks
:
For
the
truth
is
,
whatever
you
may
think
of
a
Devil
,
he
passeth
with
them
for
a
very
Adonis
,
or
a
Narcissus
.
So
much
for
your
Curiosity
;
a
word
now
for
your
Instruction
.
If
you
would
make
an
interest
in
Hell
,
you
must
give
over
that
Roguy
way
ye
have
got
of
abusing
the
Devils
in
your
Shews
,
Pictures
,
and
Emblems
:
One
while
forsooth
we
are
painted
with
Claws
,
or
Talons
,
like
Eagles
,
or
Griffons
.
Another
while
we
are
drest
up
with
Tails
,
like
so
many
Hackney-Jades
with
their
Fly-flaps
:
And
now
and
then
ye
shall
see
a
Devil
with
a
Coxcomb
.
Now
I
will
not
deny
,
but
some
of
us
may
indeed
be
very
well
taken
for
Hermites
,
and
Philosophers
.
Help
us
,
if
you
can
,
in
this
particular
,
and
you
shall
find
one
good
turn
paid
with
another
.
I
was
asking
Michael
Angelo
here
a
while
ago
,
why
he
drew
the
Devils
in
his
Great
Peice
of
the
Last
Iudgment
,
with
so
many
Monkey
Faces
,
and
Iack-Pudding
Postures
.
His
answer
was
,
that
he
follow'd
his
Fancy
,
without
any
Malice
in
the
World
,
for
as
then
,
he
had
never
seen
any
Devils
;
nor
(
indeed
)
did
he
believe
that
there
were
any
;
but
he
has
now
learn'd
the
contrary
to
his
cost
.
There
's
another
thing
too
we
take
extreamly
ill
,
which
is
,
that
in
your
ordinary
discourses
,
ye
are
out
with
your
Purse
presently
to
every
Rascal
,
and
calling
of
him
Devil
.
As
for
Example
.
Do
you
see
how
this
Devil
of
a
Taylor
has
spoil'd
my
Suit
?
how
the
Devil
has
made
me
wait
?
how
this
Devil
has
couzen'd
me
.
&c.
whic
is
very
ill
done
,
and
no
small
disparagement
to
our
Quality
,
to
be
rank'd
with
Taylors
:
A
company
of
Slaves
,
that
serve
us
in
Hell
only
for
Brush-wood
;
and
they
are
fain
to
beg
hard
to
be
admitted
at
all
:
though
I
confess
they
have
possession
on
their
sides
,
and
Custom
,
which
is
another
Law
:
Being
in
possession
of
Theft
,
and
stoln
goods
;
they
make
much
more
Conscience
of
keeping
your
stuffs
,
then
your
Holidays
,
grumbling
and
domineering
at
every
turn
,
if
they
have
not
the
same
respect
with
the
Children
of
the
Family
.
Ye
have
another
trick
too
,
of
giving
every
thing
to
the
Devil
,
that
displeases
ye
,
which
we
cannot
but
take
very
unkindly
.
The
Devil
take
thee
,
says
one
:
A
goodly
present
I
warrant
ye
;
but
the
Devil
has
something
else
to
do
,
then
to
take
and
carry
aw●y
all
that
's
given
him
;
if
they
'l
come
of
themselves
,
let
them
come
and
welcome
.
Another
gives
that
whelp
of
Laquey
to
the
Devil
;
but
the
Devil
will
none
of
your
Laqueys
,
he
thanks
ye
for
your
love
,
for
those
Rogues
are
commonly
worse
than
Devils
,
and
to
say
the
truth
,
they
are
good
neither
rost
nor
sodden
.
I
give
that
Italian
to
the
Devil
,
cryes
a
third
;
thank
you
for
nothing
:
For
ye
shall
have
an
Italian
will
chouse
the
Devil
himself
,
and
take
him
by
the
Nose
like
Mustard
.
Some
again
will
be
giving
a
Spaniard
to
the
Devil
;
but
he
has
been
so
cruel
wherever
he
has
got
footing
,
that
we
had
rather
have
his
Room
then
his
Company
,
and
make
a
Present
to
the
Grand-Signior
of
his
Nutmegs
.
Here
the
Devil
st●pt
,
and
in
the
same
instant
,
there
hapning
a
slight
scuffle
,
betwixt
a
couple
of
conceited
Coxcombs
,
which
should
go
foremost
:
I
turn'd
to
see
the
matter
,
and
cast
my
Eye
upon
a
certain
Tax-gatherer
,
that
had
undone
a
Friend
of
mine
:
And
in
some
sort
to
revenge
my self
of
this
Ass
in
a
Lions
Skin
,
I
ask't
the
Devil
,
whether
they
had
not
of
〈◊〉
sort
of
Blood-Suckers
among
the
rest
,
in
their
Dominions
(
an
Informing
,
projecting
Generation
of
men
,
and
the
very
bane
of
a
Kingdom
.
)
You
know
little
(
says
he
)
if
you
do
not
know
these
vermine
to
be
the
right
Heirs
of
Perdition
,
and
that
they
claim
Hell
for
their
Inheritance
:
And
yet
we
are
now
e'en
upon
the
point
of
discarding
them
,
for
they
are
so
pragmatical
,
and
ungrateful
,
there
's
no
enduring
of
them
.
They
are
at
this
present
in
Consultation
about
an
Impost
upon
the
High-way
to
Hell
;
and
indeed
payments
run
so
high
already
,
and
are
so
likely
to
encrease
too
,
that
't
is
much
fear'd
in
the
end
,
we
shall
quite
lose
our
Trading
and
Commerce
.
But
if
ever
they
come
to
put
this
in
Execution
,
we
shall
be
so
bold
,
as
to
treat
them
next
bout
to
the
Tune
of
Fortune
my
Foe
,
&c.
and
make
them
cool
their
Heels
on
the
wrong
side
of
the
Door
,
which
will
be
worse
then
Hell
to
them
,
for
it
leaves
them
no
retreat
,
being
expell'd
Paradise
,
and
Purgatory
already
.
This
Race
of
Vipers
,
said
I
,
will
never
be
quiet
,
till
they
tax
the
way
to
Heaven
it self
.
Oh
,
quoth
the
Devil
,
that
had
been
done
long
since
,
if
they
had
found
the
Play
worth
the
Candles
:
but
they
have
had
a
Factor
abroad
now
these
half-score
years
,
that
's
glad
to
wipe
his
nose
on
his
sleeve
still
,
for
want
of
a
Handkerchief
.
But
these
new
impositions
,
upon
what
I
pray
ye
do
they
intend
to
levy
them
?
For
that
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
there
's
a
Gentleman
of
the
Trade
at
your
Elbow
can
tell
you
all
;
pointing
to
my
old
Friend
the
Publican
.
This
drew
the
Eyes
of
the
whole
Company
upon
him
,
and
put
him
so
damn'dly
out
of
Countenance
,
that
he
pluck't
down
his
Hat
over
his
Face
,
clap't
his
tail
between
his
Legs
,
and
went
his
way
;
with
which
we
were
all
of
us
well
enough
pleas'd
,
and
then
the
Devil
went
on
.
Well
(
said
the
Devil
and
laught
)
my
Voucher
is
departed
ye
see
;
but
I
think
I
can
say
as
much
to
this
point
as
himself
;
The
Impositions
now
to
be
set
on
foot
,
are
upon
bare-neck'd
Ladies
,
Patches
,
Mole-skins
;
Spanish-paper
,
and
all
the
Mundus
Muliebri●
more
then
what
is
necessary
and
decent
;
upon
your
Tour
à
la
mode
,
and
Spring
Garden-Coaches
;
excess
in
Apparel
,
Collations
,
Rich
Furniture
,
your
Cheating
,
and
Blaspheming
Gaming-Ordinaries
,
and
in
general
,
upon
whatsoever
serves
to
advance
our
Empire
;
so
that
without
a
Friend
at
Court
,
or
some
good
Magistrate
to
help
us
out
at
a
dead
lift
,
and
stick
to
us
,
we
may
e'en
put
up
our
Pipes
,
and
you
'l
find
Hell
a
very
Desart
.
Well
said
I
,
and
methinks
I
see
nothing
in
all
this
,
but
what
is
very
reasonable
;
for
to
what
end
serves
it
but
to
corrupt
good
manners
,
stir
up
ill
Appetites
,
provoke
and
encourage
all
sorts
of
Debauchery
,
destroy
all
that
is
good
and
Honourable
in
humane
Society
,
and
chalk
out
in
effect
the
ready
way
to
the
Devil
.
But
you
said
something
e'en
now
of
Magistrates
,
I
hope
(
said
I
)
there
are
no
Iudges
in
Hell
.
You
may
as
well
imagine
(
cry'd
the
spirit
)
that
there
are
no
Devils
there
;
for
let
me
tell
you
(
Friend
mine
)
your
corrupt
Iudges
are
the
great
Spawners
that
supply
our
Lake
;
for
what
are
those
Millions
of
Catchpoles
,
Proctors
,
Atturneys
,
Clerks
,
Barristers
,
that
come
sailing
to
us
every
day
in
Shoals
,
but
the
Fry
of
such
Iudges
!
nay
sometimes
,
in
a
lucky
year
,
for
cheating
,
forging
,
and
forswearing
,
we
can
hardly
find
Cask
to
put
them
in
.
From
hence
now
(
quoth
I
)
would
you
infer
,
that
there
's
no
Iustice
upon
the
face
of
the
Earth
.
Very
right
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
for
Astraea
(
which
is
the
same
thing
)
is
fled
long
since
to
Heaven
.
Do
n't
ye
know
the
story
?
no
(
said
I
)
then
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
mind
me
and
I
'l
tell
ye
it
.
Once
upon
a
time
Truth
and
Iustice
came
together
to
take
up
their
Quarters
upon
the
Earth
:
But
the
One
being
naked
,
&
the
Other
very
severe
and
plain-dealing
,
they
could
not
meet
with
any
body
that
would
receive
them
.
At
last
,
when
they
had
wander'd
a
long
time
like
Vagabonds
in
the
open
Air
;
Truth
was
glad
to
take
up
her
Lodging
with
a
Mute
;
and
Iustice
,
perceiving
that
though
her
name
was
much
used
for
●
Cloak
to
Knavery
,
yet
that
she
her self
was
in
no
Esteem
,
bethought
her self
of
returning
to
Heaven
:
and
in
order
to
her
Journey
,
she
bad
adieu
in
the
first
place
to
all
Courts
,
Palaces
,
and
great
Cities
,
and
went
into
the
Country
;
where
she
met
with
some
few
poor
simple
Cottagers
,
that
gave
her
entertainment
;
but
Malice
,
and
Persecution
,
found
her
out
in
the
end
,
and
she
was
banish'd
thence
too
.
She
presented
her self
in
many
places
,
and
people
askt
her
what
she
was
?
She
answer'd
them
Iustice
,
for
she
would
not
lye
for
the
matter
.
Iustice
(
cry'd
they
)
she
is
astranger
to
us
;
tell
her
here
's
nothing
for
her
,
and
shut
the
door
.
Upon
these
repulses
,
she
took
wing
,
and
away
she
went
to
Heaven
,
hardly
leaving
so
much
as
the
bare
print
of
her
footsteps
behind
her
.
Her
Name
however
is
not
yet
forgotten
,
and
she
's
pictured
with
a
Scepter
in
her
hand
,
and
is
still
called
Iustice
;
but
call
her
what
ye
will
,
she
makes
as
good
a
Fire
in
Hell
as
a
Taylor
;
and
for
slight
of
hand
,
puts
down
all
the
Gilts
,
Cheats
,
Picklocks
and
Trepanners
in
the
World
:
to
say
the
truth
,
Avarice
is
grown
to
that
height
,
that
men
employ
all
the
faculties
of
Soul
and
Body
to
Rob
,
and
Deceive
.
The
Leacher
,
does
not
he
steal
away
the
honour
of
his
Mistress
?
(
though
with
her
consent
)
The
Atturney
picks
your
Pocket
,
and
shews
you
a
Law
for
't
;
The
Comedian
gets
your
money
and
your
time
,
with
reciting
other
men's
Labours
;
The
Lover
couzens
you
with
his
Eyes
;
The
Eloquent
with
his
Tongue
;
The
Valiant
,
with
his
Arm
;
The
Musician
,
with
his
Voice
and
Fingers
;
The
Astrologer
,
with
his
Calculations
;
The
Apothecary
,
with
Sickness
and
Health
;
The
Surgeon
,
with
Blood
;
and
the
Physician
,
with
Death
it self
;
And
in
some
sort
or
other
they
are
all
cheats
:
But
the
Catchpole
(
in
the
name
of
Iustice
)
abuses
you
with
his
whole
Man
;
He
watches
you
with
his
Eyes
;
Follows
you
with
his
Feet
;
Seizes
with
his
hands
;
Accuses
with
his
Tongue
;
And
in
fine
,
put
it
in
your
Litany
,
From
Catchpoles
as
well
as
Devils
,
Libera
nos
Domine
.
But
how
comes
it
(
said
I
)
that
you
have
not
coupled
the
Women
with
the
Theeves
?
for
they
are
Both
of
a
Trade
.
Not
a
word
of
Women
as
ye
love
me
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
for
we
are
so
tired
out
with
their
Importunities
;
so
deaf'd
with
the
Eternal
Clack
of
their
Tongues
,
that
we
start
at
the
very
thought
of
them
.
And
to
say
the
Truth
,
Hell
were
no
ill
Winter-Quarter
,
if
it
were
not
so
overstock'd
with
that
sort
of
Cattle
.
Since
the
Death
of
the
Witch
of
Endor
,
it
has
been
all
their
business
to
improve
themselves
in
sub●lety
and
●alice
,
and
to
set
us
together
by
the
Ears
among
our selves
.
Nay
some
of
them
are
confident
enough
,
to
tell
us
to
our
Teeth
,
that
when
we
have
done
our
worst
,
they
'l
give
us
a
Rowland
for
our
Oliver
.
Only
this
comfort
we
have
,
that
they
are
a
Cheaper
Plague
to
Vs
then
they
are
to
You
;
for
we
have
no
Exchanges
,
Hide-Parkes
,
or
Spring-Gardens
in
our
Territories
.
You
are
well
stored
then
with
Women
I
see
,
but
of
which
have
you
most
(
said
I
)
Handsome
or
Ill-favour'd
?
oh
,
of
the
Ill-favour'd
six
for
one
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
For
your
Beauties
can
never
want
Gallants
to
lay
their
Appetites
;
and
many
of
them
,
when
they
come
at
last
to
have
their
Bellies
full
,
e'en
give
over
the
sport
,
Repent
and
'scape
▪
Whereas
no
body
will
touch
the
Ill-favour'd
without
a
pair
of
Tong●
;
and
for
want
of
water
to
quench
their
fir●
,
they
come
to
us
such
Skeletons
,
that
they
are
enough
to
afright
the
Devil
himself
.
For
they
are
most
commonly
old
,
and
accompany
their
last
grones
with
a
Curse
upon
the
younger
that
ar●
to
survive
them
.
I
carryed
away
one
t'other
day
of
threescore
and
ten
,
that
I
took
just
in
the
nick
,
as
she
was
upon
a
certain
Exercise
to
remove
Obstructions
:
And
when
I
came
to
land
her
;
Alas
for
the
poor
woman
!
what
a
terrible
fit
had
she
got
of
the
Tooth-Ach
!
when
upon
search
,
the
Devil
a
Tooth
had
she
left
in
her
head
,
onely
she
belyed
her
Chops
to
save
her
Credit
.
You
have
exceedingly
satisfied
me
(
said
I
)
in
all
your
answers
;
but
pray'e
once
again
,
what
store
of
Beggars
have
ye
in
Hell
?
Poor
people
I
mean
.
Poor
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
who
are
they
?
Those
(
said
I
)
that
have
no
Possessions
in
the
World
:
How
can
that
be
,
(
quoth
he
)
that
those
should
be
damn'd
,
that
have
nothing
in
the
World
?
when
men
are
onely
damn'd
for
cleaving
to
't
.
And
briefly
,
I
find
none
of
their
names
in
our
Books
,
which
is
no
wonder
,
for
he
,
that
has
nothing
to
trust
to
,
shall
be
left
by
the
Devil
himself
in
time
of
need
.
To
deal
plainly
with
you
,
where
have
ye
greater
Devils
,
than
in
your
Flatterers
,
false
Friends
,
lewd
Company
,
Envious
Person●
,
than
a
Son
,
a
Brother
,
or
a
Relation
,
that
lyes
in
wait
for
your
life
to
get
your
Fortune
,
that
mourns
over
you
in
your
sickness
,
and
wishes
you
already
at
the
Devil
.
Now
the
Poor
have
none
of
this
;
They
are
neither
flatter'd
,
nor
envy'd
nor
befriended
,
nor
accompanyed
:
There
's
no
gaping
for
their
Possessions
;
and
in
short
,
they
are
a
sort
of
people
that
live
well
,
and
dye
better
;
and
there
are
some
of
them
,
that
would
not
exchange
their
Raggs
,
for
Royalty
it self
:
They
are
at
liberty
to
go
and
come
at
pleasure
,
be
it
War
or
Peace
;
free
from
Cares
,
Taxes
,
and
publick
Duties
.
They
fear
no
Judgments
or
Executions
,
but
live
as
inviolable
as
if
their
Persons
were
Sacred
.
Moreover
they
take
no
thought
for
to
morrow
,
but
setting
a
just
value
on
their
hours
,
they
are
good
Husbands
of
the
present
;
considering
that
what
is
past
,
is
as
good
as
Dead
,
and
what
's
to
come
Vncertain
.
But
they
say
,
when
the
Devil
preaches
,
the
world
's
neer
an
End
.
The
divine
Hand
is
in
this
(
said
the
Holy
Man
that
perform'd
the
Exorcism
)
Thou
art
the
Father
of
Lyes
,
and
yet
deliver'st
truths
,
able
to
mollify
and
convert
a
Heart
of
stone
.
But
do
not
you
mistake
your selves
,
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
to
suppose
that
your
Conversion
is
my
Business
;
for
I
speak
these
Truths
to
aggravate
your
Guilt
,
and
that
you
may
not
plead
ignorance
another
day
,
when
you
shall
be
call'd
to
answer
for
your
Transgressions
.
'T
is
true
,
most
of
you
shed
tears
at
parting
,
but
't
is
the
Apprehension
of
Death
,
and
no
true
Repentance
for
your
sins
that
works
upon
you
:
For
ye
are
all
a
pack
of
Hypocrites
:
Or
if
at
any
time
you
entertain
those
Reflections
,
your
trouble
is
,
That
your
Body
will
not
hold
out
;
and
then
forsooth
ye
pretend
to
pick
aquarrel
with
the
Sin
it self
.
Thou
art
an
Impostor
(
said
the
Religious
)
for
there
are
many
Righteous
Souls
,
that
draw
their
sorrow
from
another
Fountain
.
But
I
perceive
you
have
a
mind
to
amuse
us
,
and
make
us
lose
Time
,
and
perchance
your
own
hour
is
not
yet
come
to
quit
the
Body
of
this
miserable
Creature
;
however
,
I
conjure
thee
in
the
name
of
the
most
High
to
leave
tormenting
him
,
and
to
hold
thy
Peace
.
The
Devil
obey'd
;
and
the
Good
Father
applying
himself
to
us
,
My
Masters
(
says
he
)
though
I
am
absolutely
of
Opinion
that
it
is
the
Devil
that
has
talkt
to
us
all
this
while
through
the
Organ
of
this
unhappy
wretch
,
yet
he
that
well
weighs
what
has
bin
said
,
may
doubtless
reap
some
benefit
by
the
Discourse
.
Wherefore
without
considering
whence
it
came
;
Remember
,
that
Saul
(
although
a
wicked
Prince
)
Prophesied
;
and
that
Honey
has
been
drawn
out
of
the
Mouth
of
a
Lyon
.
Withdraw
then
,
and
I
shall
make
it
my
Prayer
(
as
't
is
my
hope
)
that
this
sad
and
prodigious
spectacle
may
lead
you
to
a
true
sight
of
your
Errours
,
and
in
the
end
,
to
amendment
of
Life
.
The
end
of
the
first
Vision
.
THE
SECOND
VISION
OF
DEATH
and
her
EMPIRE
.
MEan
Souls
do
naturally
breed
sad
Thoughts
,
and
in
Solitude
,
they
gather
together
in
Troops
to
assault
the
Unfortunate
;
which
is
the
Tryal
(
according
to
my
Observation
)
wherein
the
Coward
does
most
betray
himself
;
and
yet
cannot
I
for
my
life
,
when
I
am
alone
,
avoid
those
Accidents
and
Surprizes
in
my self
,
which
I
condemn
in
others
.
I
have
sometime
,
upon
Reading
the
Grave
and
Severe
Lucretius
,
been
seized
with
a
strange
Damp
;
whether
from
the
striking
of
his
Counsels
upon
my
Passions
,
or
some
tacite
reflection
of
shame
upon
my self
,
I
know
not
.
However
,
to
render
this
Confession
of
my
weakness
the
more
excusable
,
I
'l
begin
my
Discourse
with
somewhat
out
of
that
elegant
and
excellent
Poet
;
Put
the
Case
(
sayes
he
)
that
a
Voice
from
Heaven
should
speak
to
any
of
us
after
this
manner
;
What
do'st
thou
ail
,
O
Mortal
Man
,
or
to
what
purpose
is
it
,
to
spend
thy
life
in
Groans
,
and
Complaints
,
under
the
apprehension
of
Death
?
where
are
thy
past
Years
and
Pleasures
?
Are
they
not
vanish't
and
lost
in
theFlux
of
Time
,
as
if
thou
hadst
put
Water
into
a
Sieve
?
Bethink
thy self
then
of
a
Retreat
,
&
leave
the
World
with
the
same
content
,
&
satisfaction
,
as
thou
wouldst
do
a
plentiful
Table
,
and
a
jolly
Company
upon
a
full
stomach
.
Poor
Fool
that
thou
art
!
thus
to
Macerate
and
Torment
thy self
,
when
thou
may'st
enjoy
thy
Heart
at
Ease
,
and
Possess
thy
Soul
with
Repose
and
Comfort
,
&c.
This
passage
brought
into
my
mind
,
the
words
of
Iob.
Cap.
14.
and
I
was
carried
on
from
one
Meditation
to
another
,
till
at
length
,
I
fell
fast
asleep
over
my
Book
,
which
I
ascribed
rather
to
a
favourable
providence
,
then
to
my
natural
Disposition
.
So
soon
as
my
Soul
felt
her self
at
Liberty
,
she
gave
me
the
entertainment
of
this
following
Comedy
,
my
Phansy
supplying
both
the
Stage
and
the
Company
.
In
the
first
Scene
,
enter'd
a
Troop
of
Physicians
,
upon
their
Mules
,
with
deep
Foot-cloths
;
marching
in
no
very
good
Order
,
sometime
fast
,
sometime
slow
,
and
to
say
the
Truth
,
most
commonly
in
a
huddle
.
They
were
all
wrinkled
and
wither'd
about
the
Eyes
;
I
suppose
with
casting
so
many
sowre
looks
upon
the
Piss-pots
and
Close-stools
of
their
Patients
:
bearded
like
Goats
;
and
their
Faces
so
overgrown
with
Hair
,
that
their
Fingers
could
hardly
find
the
way
to
their
Mouths
.
In
their
left
hand
they
held
their
Reins
,
and
their
Gloves
roul'd
up
together
;
and
in
the
right
,
a
Staffe
à
la
mode
,
which
they
carryed
rather
for
Countenance
,
then
Correction
;
(
for
they
understood
no
other
Manege
than
the
Heel
)
and
all
along
,
Head
and
Body
went
too
,
like
a
Baker
upon
his
Panniers
.
Divers
of
them
I
observ'd
,
had
huge
Gold
Rings
upon
their
Fingers
,
and
set
with
Stones
of
so
large
a
size
,
that
they
could
hardly
feel
a
Patients
Pulse
,
without
minding
him
of
his
Monument
.
There
were
more
tha●
a
good
many
of
them
,
and
a
world
of
Puny
Practisers
at
their
heels
,
that
came
out
Graduates
,
by
conversing
rather
with
the
Mules
than
the
Doctors
:
Well!
said
I
to
my self
;
if
there
goes
no
more
than
This
to
the
making
a
Physitian
,
it
is
no
marvel
we
pay
so
dear
for
their
Experience
.
After
These
,
follow'd
a
long
Train
of
Mountebank
Apothecaries
laden
with
Pestles
,
and
Mortars
,
Suppositories
,
Spatulas
,
Glister-Pipes
and
Siringes
,
ready
charg'd
,
and
as
mortal
as
Gun-shot
,
and
several
Titled
Boxes
with
R●medies
without
,
and
Poysons
within
:
Ye
may
observe
that
when
a
Patient
comes
to
die
,
the
Apothecaries
Mo●tar
rings
the
Passing-Bell
,
as
the
Priests
R●quiem
finishes
the
business
.
An
Apothec●ries
Shop
is
(
in
effect
)
no
other
than
the
Physitians
Armory
,
that
supplies
him
with
Weapons
;
and
(
to
say
the
truth
)
the
Instruments
of
the
Apothecary
and
the
Souldier
are
much
of
a
quality
:
What
are
their
Boxes
but
Petards
?
their
Syringes
,
Pistols
;
and
their
Pills
,
but
Bullets
?
And
after
all
,
considering
their
Purgative
Medicines
,
we
may
properly
enough
call
their
Shops
Purgatory
;
and
why
not
their
Persons
Hell
?
their
Patients
the
Damn'd
?
and
their
Masters
the
Devils
?
These
Apothecaries
were
in
Iacquets
,
wrought
all
over
with
Rs
,
struck
through
like
wounded
hearts
,
and
in
the
form
of
the
first
Character
of
their
Prescriptions
;
which
(
as
they
tell
us
)
signifies
Recipe
(
T●ke
thou
)
but
we
find
it
to
stand
for
Recipio
(
I
take
.
)
Next
to
this
Figure
,
they
write
Ana
,
Ana
,
which
is
as
much
as
●o
say
An
Ass
,
An
Ass
;
and
after
this
,
march
the
Ounces
and
the
Scruples
:
an
incomparable
Cordial
to
a
dying
man
;
the
former
to
dispatch
the
Body
,
and
the
latte●
,
to
put
the
Soul
into
the
high-way
to
the
D●vil
.
To
hear
them
call
over
their
Simples
,
would
make
you
swear
,
they
were
raising
so
many
Devils
.
Ther●●s
your
Opopanax
,
Buphthalmus
,
Ast●p●ylinos
,
Alectorolophos
,
Ophios●orod●n
,
Anemosphorus
,
&c.
And
by
all
this
formidable
Bombast
,
is
meant
nothing
in
the
world
but
a
few
paltry
Roots
,
as
Carrots
,
Turneps
,
Skirrets
,
Radish
and
the
like
.
But
they
have
the
old
Proverb
at
their
fingers
ends
,
He
that
knows
thee
will
never
buy
thee
;
and
therefore
every
thing
must
be
made
a
Mystery
,
to
hold
their
Patients
in
ignorance
,
and
keep
up
the
Price
of
the
Market
.
And
were
not
the
very
names
of
their
Medicines
sufficient
to
fright
away
any
Distemper
,
't
is
to
be
fear'd
the
Remedy
would
prove
worse
than
the
Disease
.
Can
any
pain
in
Nature
,
think
ye
,
have
the
confidence
to
look
a
Physitian
in
the
face
,
that
comes
arm'd
with
a
Drug
made
of
Man's
Grease
?
though
disguis'd
under
the
name
of
Mummy
,
to
take
off
the
Horrour
and
Disgust
of
it
:
Or
to
stay
for
a
dressing
with
Dr.
Whachums
Plaster
,
that
shall
fetch
up
a
man's
leg
to
the
size
of
a
Mill-post
?
When
I
saw
these
people
Herded
with
the
Physitians
,
methought
the
old
sluttish
Proverb
,
that
says
,
There
is
a
great
distance
between
the
Pulse
and
the
Arse
,
was
much
to
blame
for
making
such
a
difference
in
their
Dignities
,
for
I
find
none
at
all
;
but
the
Physitian
skips
in
a
trice
from
the
Pulse
to
the
Stool
and
Vrinals
,
according
to
the
Doctrine
of
Galen
,
who
sends
all
his
Disciples
to
those
unsavoury
Oracles
:
from
whose
hands
the
Devil
himself
,
if
he
were
sick
,
would
not
receive
so
much
as
a
Glister
.
Oh!
these
cursed
and
lawless
Arbitrators
and
Disposers
of
our
Lives
!
that
without
either
Conscience
or
Religion
,
divide
our
Souls
and
Bodies
,
by
their
damn'd
poysonous
Potions
,
Scarifications
,
Incisions
,
Excessive
Bleedings
,
&c.
which
are
but
the
several
wayes
of
executing
their
Tyranny
and
Injustice
upon
us
.
In
the
tail
of
These
,
came
the
Surgeons
,
laden
with
Pincers
,
Cranes-bills
,
Catheters
,
Desquamatories
,
Dilaters
,
Scissers
,
Saws
;
and
with
them
,
so
horrid
an
outcry
,
of
Cut
,
Tear
,
Open
,
Saw
,
Flay
,
Burn
,
that
my
Bones
were
ready
to
creep
one
into
another
for
fear
of
an
Operation
.
The
next
that
came
in
,
I
should
have
taken
by
their
Min
,
for
Devils
disguised
,
if
I
had
not
spyed
their
Chains
of
Rotten
Teeth
,
which
put
me
in
some
hope
they
might
be
Tooth-drawers
,
and
so
they
prov'd
;
which
is
yet
one
of
the
lewdest
Trades
in
the
world
;
for
they
are
good
for
nothing
but
to
depopulate
our
Mouths
,
and
make
us
old
before
our
time
.
Let
a
man
but
yawn
,
and
ye
shall
have
one
of
these
Rogues
examining
his
Grinders
,
and
there
's
not
a
sound
Tooth
in
your
head
,
but
he
had
rather
see
't
at
his
Girdle
,
than
in
the
place
of
its
nativity
:
Nay
,
rather
than
fail
,
hee
'l
pick
a
quarrel
with
your
Gums
.
But
that
which
puts
me
out
of
all
patience
,
is
to
see
these
Scoundrels
ask
twice
as
much
for
drawing
an
old
Tooth
as
would
have
bought
ye
a
new
One
.
Certainly
(
said
I
to
my self
)
we
are
now
past
the
worst
,
unless
the
Devil
himself
come
next
:
And
in
that
instant
I
heard
the
Brushing
of
Guy●ars
,
and
the
Ratling
of
Citterns
,
Raking
over
certain
Passacailles
and
Sarabands
.
These
are
a
Kennel
of
Barbers
thought
I
,
or
I
'l
be
hang'd
;
and
any
man
that
had
ever
seen
a
Barber's
shop
might
have
told
you
as
much
without
a
Conjurer
,
both
by
the
Musick
,
&
by
the
very
Instruments
,
which
are
as
proper
a
part
of
a
Barbers
Furniture
,
as
his
Comb-Cases
and
Wash-balls
.
It
was
to
me
a
pleasant
entertainment
,
to
see
them
lathering
of
Asses
heads
,
of
all
sorts
and
sizes
,
and
their
Customers
all
the
while
winking
and
sputtering
over
their
Basons
.
Presently
after
these
,
appear'd
a
Consort
of
loud
and
tedious
Talkers
,
that
tired
and
deafen'd
the
Company
with
their
shrill
,
and
restless
Gaggle
:
but
as
one
told
me
,
these
were
of
several
sorts
.
Some
they
call'd
Swimmers
from
the
motion
of
their
Arms
in
all
their
Discourses
,
which
was
just
as
if
they
had
been
Padling
.
Others
they
called
Apes
,
(
and
we
Mimicks
)
these
were
perpetually
making
of
Mopps
,
and
Mowes
,
and
a
thousand
Antick
Ridiculous
Gestures
,
in
derision
and
imitation
of
Others
.
In
the
third
place
,
were
Make-Bates
,
and
Sowers
of
Dissention
,
and
these
were
still
Rolling
their
Eyes
(
like
a
Bartlemey-Puppet
,
without
so
much
as
moving
the
Head
)
and
leering
over
their
Shoulders
,
to
surprize
people
at
unawares
in
their
Familiarities
,
and
Privacies
,
and
gather
matter
for
Calumny
and
Detraction
.
The
Lyers
follow'd
next
;
and
these
seem'd
to
be
a
jolly
contented
sort
of
People
,
well
Fed
,
and
well
Clothed
;
and
having
nothing
else
to
trust
to
,
methought
it
was
a
strange
Trade
to
live
upon
.
I
need
not
tell
you
,
that
they
are
never
without
a
full
Audience
,
since
all
Fools
and
Impertinents
are
of
their
Congregation
.
After
these
,
came
a
Company
of
Medlers
;
a
Pragmatical
Insolent
Generation
of
men
that
will
have
an
Oar
in
every
Boat
,
and
are
indeed
the
Bane
of
honest
Conversation
,
and
the
Troublers
of
all
Companies
and
Affairs
:
The
most
Prostitute
of
all
Flatterers
;
and
only
devoted
to
their
own
Profit
.
I
thought
this
had
been
the
last
Scene
,
because
no
more
came
upon
the
Stage
for
a
good
while
;
and
indeed
I
wonder'd
that
they
came
so
late
themselves
,
but
one
of
the
Bablers
told
me
(
unaskt
)
that
this
kind
of
Serpent
carrying
his
Venome
in
his
tayl
,
it
seem'd
reasonable
,
that
being
the
most
Poysonous
of
the
whole
Gang
,
they
should
bring
up
the
Rear
.
I
began
then
to
take
into
thought
,
what
might
be
the
meaning
of
this
Oglio
of
People
of
several
Conditions
and
Humours
,
met
together
;
but
I
was
quickly
diverted
from
that
Consideration
,
by
the
Apparition
of
a
Creature
which
lookt
as
if
't
were
of
the
Feminine
Gender
.
It
was
a
Person
,
of
a
thin
and
slender
make
;
laden
with
Crowns
,
Garlands
,
Scepters
,
Scythes
,
Sheep-hooks
,
Pattins
,
Hob-nail'd-shooes
,
Tiaras
,
Straw-hats
,
Miters
,
Mounmoth
Caps
,
Embroideries
,
Skins
,
Silk
,
Wool
,
Gold
,
Lead
,
Diamonds
,
Shells
,
Pearl
,
and
Pebles
:
She
was
drest
up
in
all
the
Colours
of
the
Rainbow
;
she
had
one
eye
shut
,
the
other
open
;
young
on
the
one
side
,
and
old
o'
the
other
.
I
thought
at
first
,
she
had
been
a
great
way
off
,
when
indeed
she
was
very
neer
me
,
and
when
I
took
her
to
be
at
my
Chamber-door
,
she
was
at
my
Beds
head
.
How
to
unridle
this
mystery
I
knew
not
;
nor
was
it
possible
for
me
to
make
out
the
meaning
of
an
Equipage
so
extravagant
,
and
so
fantastically
put
together
.
It
gave
me
no
affright
however
,
but
on
the
contrary
I
could
not
forbear
laughing
,
for
it
came
just
then
into
my
mind
that
I
had
formerly
seen
in
Italy
a
Farce
,
where
the
Mimick
,
pretending
to
come
from
the
other
world
,
was
just
thus
Accoutred
,
and
never
was
any
thing
more
Nonsensically
pleasant
.
I
held
as
long
as
I
could
,
and
at
last
,
I
askt
what
she
was
?
she
answer'd
me
,
I
am
Death
.
Death
!
(
the
very
word
brought
my
Heart
into
my
Mouth
)
and
I
beseech
you
Madam
,
quoth
I
(
with
great
Humility
and
Respect
)
whither
is
your
Honour
a
going
?
No
further
(
said
she
)
for
now
I
have
found
you
,
I
am
at
my
Journey
's
End
.
Alas
,
Alas
!
and
must
I
Dye
then
(
said
I
)
No
,
no
,
(
quoth
Death
)
but
I
'l
take
thee
Quick
along
with
me
:
For
since
so
many
of
the
Dead
have
been
to
visit
the
Living
,
It
is
but
equal
for
once
,
that
one
of
the
Living
should
Return
a
Visit
to
the
Dead
.
Get
up
then
and
come
along
;
and
never
hang
an
Arse
for
the
matter
:
for
what
you
will
not
do
willingly
,
you
shall
do
in
spight
of
your
Teeth
.
This
put
me
in
a
Cold
Fit
;
but
without
more
delay
up
I
started
,
and
desired
leave
only
to
put
on
my
Breeches
.
No
,
no
,
(
said
she
)
no
matter
for
Clothes
,
no
body
wears
them
upon
this
Road
;
wherefore
come
away
,
naked
as
you
are
,
and
you
'l
Travel
the
better
.
So
up
I
got
,
without
a
word
more
and
follow'd
her
;
in
such
a
Terrour
,
and
Amazement
,
that
I
was
but
in
an
ill
Condition
to
take
a
strict
account
of
my
Passage
;
yet
I
remember
,
that
upon
the
way
,
I
told
her
;
Madam
,
under
Correction
,
you
are
no
more
like
the
Deaths
that
I
have
seen
,
then
an
Apple's
like
an
Oyster
.
Our
Death
is
pictur'd
with
a
Scyth
in
her
hand
;
and
a
Carkass
of
bones
,
as
clean
,
as
if
the
Crows
had
pick'd
it
:
Yes
,
yes
(
said
she
)
turning
short
upon
me
,
I
know
that
very
well
:
but
in
the
mean
time
your
Designers
,
and
Painters
,
are
but
a
Company
of
Buzzards
.
The
Bones
you
talk
of
,
are
the
Dead
,
or
otherwise
the
miserable
Remainders
of
the
Living
;
but
let
me
tell
you
,
that
you
your selves
are
your
own
Death
,
and
that
which
you
call
Death
,
is
but
the
Period
of
your
Life
,
as
the
first
moment
of
your
Birth
,
is
the
beginning
of
your
Death
:
And
effectually
,
ye
Dye
Living
,
and
your
Bones
are
no
more
then
what
Death
has
left
,
and
committed
to
the
Grave
.
If
this
were
rightly
understood
,
every
man
would
find
a
Memento
Mori
,
or
a
Death's
Head
in
his
own
Looking-glass
;
and
consider
every
house
with
a
Family
in
't
,
but
as
a
Sepulchre
fill'd
with
Dead
Bodies
;
a
Truth
which
you
little
dream
of
,
though
within
your
daily
View
and
Experience
.
Can
you
imagine
a
Death
elsewhere
,
and
not
in
your selves
?
Believe
't
y'
are
in
a
shameful
mistake
;
for
you
your selves
are
Skeletons
before
ye
are
aware
.
But
Madam
,
under
Favour
,
what
may
all
these
People
be
that
keep
your
Ladish●p
Company
?
and
since
you
are
Death
(
as
you
say
)
how
comes
it
,
that
the
Bablers
,
and
Make-bates
▪
are
neerer
your
Person
,
and
more
in
your
Good
Graces
,
than
the
Physicians
?
Why
(
sayes
she
)
there
are
more
People
Talk'd
to
Death
and
dispatcht
by
Bablers
,
then
by
all
the
Pestilential
Diseases
in
the
World
.
And
then
your
Make-bates
,
and
Medlers
kill
more
then
your
Physicians
,
though
(
to
give
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Faculty
their
due
)
they
labour
night
and
day
for
the
enlargement
of
our
Empire
.
For
you
must
understand
,
that
though
distemper'd
humours
make
a
man
sick
,
't
is
the
Physician
Kills
him
;
and
looks
to
be
well
paid
for
't
too
:
(
and
't
is
fit
that
every
man
should
live
by
his
Trade
)
so
that
when
a
man
is
askt
,
what
such
or
such
a
one
dy'd
of
;
He
is
not
presently
to
make
answer
,
that
he
dy'd
of
a
Fever
,
Pleurisie
,
the
Plague
,
Purples
,
or
the
like
;
but
that
He
dy'd
of
the
Doctor
.
In
one
point
,
however
I
must
needs
acquit
the
Physician
;
Ye
know
that
the
stile
of
right
Honourable
,
and
right
Worshipful
,
which
wa●
heretofore
appropriate
onely
to
Persons
of
Eminent
degree
and
Quality
,
is
now
in
our
days
used
by
all
sorts
of
little
people
;
Nay
the
very
Bare-foot
Friers
,
that
live
under
Vows
of
Humility
and
Mortification
,
are
stung
with
this
Itch
of
Title
and
Vain-Glory
.
And
your
ordinary
Trades-men
,
as
Vintners
,
Taylors
,
Masons
,
and
the
like
,
must
be
all
drest
up
forsooth
in
the
Right
Worshipful
:
whereas
your
Physician
does
not
so
much
Court
Honour
of
Appellation
(
though
,
if
it
should
rain
Dignities
,
he
might
be
perswaded
happily
to
venture
the
wetting
)
but
sits
down
contentedly
with
the
Honour
of
disposing
of
your
Lives
and
Moneys
,
without
troubling
himself
about
any
other
sort
of
Reputation
.
The
Entertainment
of
these
Lectures
,
and
discourses
made
the
way
seem
short
and
Pleasant
,
and
we
were
just
now
entring
into
a
Place
,
betwixt
Light
,
and
Dark
;
and
of
Horrour
enough
,
if
Death
and
I
had
not
by
this
time
been
very
well
acquainted
.
Upon
one
side
of
the
Passage
,
I
saw
three
moving
Figures
;
Arm'd
,
and
of
Humane
shape
;
and
so
alike
,
that
I
could
not
say
which
was
which
.
Just
Opposite
,
on
the
other
side
,
a
Hideous
Monster
,
and
these
Three
to
One
,
and
One
to
Three
,
in
a
Fierce
,
and
Obstinate
Combate
.
Here
Death
made
a
stop
,
and
facing
about
,
askt
me
,
if
I
knew
these
People
.
Alas
!
No
(
quoth
I
)
Heaven
be
praised
,
I
do
not
,
and
I
shall
put
it
in
my
Litany
that
I
never
may
.
Now
to
see
thy
Ignorance
,
cry'd
Death
;
These
are
thy
old
Acquaintance
,
and
thou
hast
hardly
kept
any
other
Company
since
thou
wert
born
.
Those
Three
are
,
the
World
,
the
Flesh
,
and
the
Devil
;
the
Capital
Enemies
of
thy
Soul
:
and
they
are
so
like
one
another
,
as
well
in
Quality
,
as
Appearance
,
that
Effectually
,
whoever
has
One
,
has
All.
The
Proud
,
and
Ambitious
man
thinks
he
has
got
the
World
,
but
it
proves
the
Devil
.
The
Lecher
,
and
the
Epicure
,
perswade
themselves
that
they
have
gotten
the
Flesh
,
and
that
's
the
Devil
too
;
and
in
fine
,
thus
it
fares
with
all
other
kinds
of
Extravagants
.
But
what
's
He
there
,
said
I
,
that
appears
in
so
many
several
shapes
?
and
fights
against
the
other
three
?
That
(
quoth
Death
)
is
the
Devil
of
Money
,
who
maintains
that
He
himself
Alone
is
Equivalent
to
them
Three
,
and
that
wherever
He
comes
,
there
's
no
need
of
Them
.
Against
the
World
,
He
argues
from
their
own
Confession
,
and
Experience
:
for
it
passes
for
an
Oracle
;
that
There
's
no
World
but
Money
;
He
that
's
out
of
Money
,
's
out
of
the
World
.
Take
away
a
man's
Money
,
and
take
away
his
Life
.
Money
answers
All
things
.
Against
the
second
Enemy
,
he
pleads
that
Money
is
the
Flesh
too
:
witness
the
Girles
and
the
Ganimedes
it
procures
,
and
maintains
.
And
against
the
Third
,
He
urges
that
there
's
nothing
to
be
done
without
this
Devil
of
Money
.
Love
does
much
but
Money
does
All
:
And
Money
will
make
the
Pot
boyl
,
though
the
Devil
piss
in
the
Fire
.
So
that
for
ought
I
see
,
(
quoth
I
)
the
Devil
of
Money
has
the
better
end
of
the
staffe
.
After
this
,
advancing
a
little
further
,
I
saw
on
One
hand
,
Iudgment
;
and
Hell
,
on
the
other
(
for
so
Death
called
them
)
Upon
the
sight
of
Hell
,
making
a
stop
,
to
take
a
stricter
Survey
of
it
,
Death
askt
me
,
what
it
was
I
look't
at
?
I
told
her
,
it
was
Hell
;
and
I
was
the
more
intent
upon
it
,
because
I
thought
I
had
seen
it
,
somewhere
else
before
.
She
question'd
me
,
where
?
I
told
her
,
that
I
had
seen
it
in
the
Corruption
and
Avarice
of
Wicked
Magistrates
;
In
the
Pride
and
Haughtiness
of
Grandees
;
In
the
Appetites
of
the
Voluptuous
;
In
the
lewd
Designs
of
Ruine
,
and
Revenge
;
In
the
Souls
of
Oppressours
;
and
in
the
Vanity
of
divers
Princes
.
But
he
that
would
see
it
whole
,
and
Entire
,
in
one
subject
,
must
go
to
the
Hypocrite
who
is
a
kind
of
a
Religious
Broker
,
and
puts
out
at
five
and
forty
per
Cent.
the
very
Sacraments
,
and
ten
Commandments
.
I
am
very
glad
too
(
said
I
)
that
I
have
seen
Iudgment
as
I
find
it
here
,
in
it's
Purity
;
for
That
which
we
call
Iudgment
in
the
World
,
is
a
meer
Mockery
:
If
it
were
like
This
,
men
would
live
otherwise
than
they
do
.
To
conclude
;
if
it
be
expected
that
our
Iudges
should
govern
Themselves
and
Us
by
This
Iudgment
,
the
world
's
in
an
ill
Case
;
for
there
's
but
little
of
't
there
.
And
to
deal
plainly
,
as
matters
are
,
I
have
no
great
maw
to
go
home
again
:
for
't
is
better
being
with
the
Dead
,
where
there
's
Iustice
,
then
with
the
Living
,
where
there
's
None
.
Our
next
step
was
into
a
fair
and
spacious
Plain
,
encompass'd
with
a
huge
wall
,
where
he
that
's
once
in
,
must
never
look
to
come
out
again
.
Stop
here
(
quoth
Death
)
for
we
are
now
come
to
my
Iudgment-Seat
,
and
here
it
is
that
I
give
Audience
.
The
Walls
were
hung
with
Sighs
and
Grones
,
Ill-News
,
Fears
,
Doubts
,
and
Surprizes
.
Tears
did
not
there
avail
,
either
the
Lover
or
the
Beggar
;
but
Grief
and
Care
were
without
both
Measure
and
Comfort
;
and
serv'd
as
Vermine
,
to
gnaw
the
Hearts
of
Emperours
,
and
Princes
,
feeding
upon
the
Insolent
,
and
Ambitious
;
as
their
proper
Nourishment
.
I
saw
Envy
there
drest
up
in
a
Widdow's
Vail
,
and
the
very
Picture
of
the
Governant
of
one
of
your
Noblemen's
Houses
.
She
kept
a
Continual
Fast
as
to
the
Shambles
,
Preying
only
upon
her self
;
and
could
not
but
be
a
very
slender
Gentlewoman
,
upon
so
spare
a
Diet.
Nothing
came
amiss
to
her
Teeth
(
Good
or
Bad
)
which
made
the
whole
set
of
them
Yellow
and
Rotten
,
and
the
reason
was
,
that
though
she
bit
,
and
set
her
mark
upon
the
Good
,
and
the
Sound
,
she
could
never
swallow
it
.
Under
her
,
sate
Discord
;
the
Legitimate
Issue
of
her
own
Bowels
.
She
had
formerly
convers'd
much
with
married
people
,
but
finding
no
need
of
her
there
,
away
she
went
to
Colleges
and
Corporations
,
where
it
seems
they
had
more
already
than
they
knew
what
to
do
withall
:
and
then
she
betook
her self
to
Courts
,
and
Palaces
,
and
Officiated
there
,
as
the
Devil's
Lieutenant
.
Next
to
Her
,
was
Ingratitude
,
and
she
out
of
a
certain
Paste
made
up
of
Pride
and
Malice
,
was
moulding
of
New
Devils
.
I
was
extreme
glad
of
this
Discovery
,
being
of
Opinion
,
till
now
,
that
the
Vngrateful
had
been
the
Devils
Themselves
,
because
I
read
,
that
the
Angels
that
fell
were
made
Devils
for
their
Ingratitude
.
To
be
short
,
the
whole
Pl●ce
Eccho'd
with
Rage
and
Curses
.
What
a
Devil
have
we
here
to
do
,
(
said
I
)
does
it
rain
Curses
in
this
Country
?
With
that
,
a
Death
at
my
Elbow
askt
me
,
what
a
Devil
I
could
expect
else
,
in
a
place
where
there
were
so
many
Match-makers
,
Atturneys
,
and
Common-Barretters
;
who
are
a
Pack
of
the
most
Accursed
Wretches
in
Nature
?
Is
there
any
thing
more
Common
in
the
World
,
then
the
Exclamations
of
Husbands
and
Wives
?
Oh!
that
Damn'd
Devil
of
a
Pander
:
A
heavy
Curse
upon
that
Bitch
of
a
Bawd
that
ever
brought
us
together
.
The
Pillory
and
ten
thousand
Gibbets
to
boot
,
take
that
Pick-pocket
Atturney
,
that
advised
me
to
this
Law-suit
;
h●as
ruin'd
me
for
ever
.
But
pray'e
(
said
I
)
what
do
all
these
Match-makers
and
Atturneys
here
together
?
Do
they
come
for
Audience
?
Death
was
here
a
little
quick
upon
me
,
and
called
me
Fool
for
so
Impertinent
a
Qustei●n
.
If
th●re
were
no
Match-makers
(
said
she
)
we
should
not
have
the
Tenth
part
of
these
Skeletons
,
and
Desperado's
.
Am
not
I
here
the
fifth
Husband
of
a
woman
yet
living
in
the
world
,
that
hopes
to
send
twice
as
many
more
after
me
,
and
drink
Maudlin
at
the
fifteenth
Funeral
?
You
say
well
(
said
I
)
as
to
the
business
of
Match-makers
;
But
why
so
many
Petty-foggers
I
pray'e
?
Nay
then
I
perceive
(
quoth
Death
)
now
you
have
a
mind
to
seize
me
;
for
that
Rascally
sort
of
Caterpillers
have
been
my
undoing
.
Had
not
a
man
better
dye
by
the
Common
Hangman
,
than
by
the
Hand
of
an
Attorney
?
to
be
killed
by
Falsities
,
Quirks
,
Cavils
,
Delays
,
Exceptions
,
Cheats
,
Circumventions
:
Yes
,
yes
,
And
it
must
not
be
deny'd
,
that
these
Makers
of
Matches
,
and
Splitters
of
Causes
,
are
the
Principal
support
of
this
Imperial
Throne
.
At
these
words
,
I
rais'd
my
Eyes
,
and
saw
Death
seated
in
her
Chair
of
state
,
with
abundance
of
little
Deaths
crowding
about
her
;
As
the
Death
of
Love
,
of
Cold
,
Hunger
,
Fear
,
and
Laughter
;
All
,
with
their
several
Ensigns
and
Devices
.
The
Death
of
Love
,
I
perceived
,
had
very
little
Brain
,
and
to
keep
her self
in
Countenance
,
she
kept
Company
with
Pyramus
and
Thisbe
;
Hero
and
Leander
,
and
some
Amadis's
and
Palmerins
d'
Oliva
;
all
Embalm'd
,
steep'd
in
good
Vinegar
,
and
well
Dry'd
.
I
saw
a
great
many
other
sorts
of
Lovers
too
,
that
were
brought
,
in
all
Appearance
,
to
their
last
Agonies
,
but
by
the
singular
Miracle
of
self-Interest
recover'd
,
to
the
Tune
of
Will
,
if
Looking
well
won't
move
her
,
Looking
Ill
prevail
?
The
Death
of
Cold
,
was
attended
by
a
many
Prelates
,
Bishops
,
Abbots
,
and
other
Ecclesiasticks
;
who
had
neither
Wives
,
nor
Children
,
nor
indeed
any
body
else
that
cared
for
them
,
further
than
for
their
Fortunes
.
These
,
when
they
come
to
a
Fit
of
sickness
,
are
Pillag'd
even
to
their
sheets
and
Bedding
,
before
ye
can
say
a
Pater-noster
.
Nay
,
many
times
they
are
stript
,
e're
they
are
Laid
,
and
destroy'd
for
want
of
Clothes
to
keep
them
warm
.
The
Death
of
Hunger
was
encompassed
with
a
Multitude
of
Avaritious
Misers
,
that
were
Cording
up
of
Trunks
;
Bolting
of
Dores
,
and
Windows
;
Locking
up
of
Cellars
,
and
Garrets
;
and
Nailing
down
of
Trap-doors
;
Burying
of
Pots
of
Money
,
and
starting
at
every
Breath
of
Wind
they
heard
.
Their
Eyes
were
ready
to
drop
out
of
their
heads
,
for
want
of
sleep
;
their
Mouths
and
Bellies
complaining
of
their
Hands
,
and
their
Souls
turn'd
into
Gold
and
Silver
(
the
Idols
they
ador'd
.
)
The
Death
of
Fear
,
had
the
most
Magnificent
Train
and
Attendance
,
of
all
the
rest
,
being
accompanied
with
a
great
number
of
Vsurpers
,
and
Tyrants
,
who
commonly
do
Justice
upon
Themselves
,
for
the
Injuries
they
have
done
to
Others
:
Their
own
Consciences
doing
the
Office
of
Tormentors
,
and
Avenging
their
Publique
Crimes
by
their
Private
Sufferings
;
for
they
live
in
a
perpetual
Anguish
of
Thought
,
with
Fears
and
Jealousies
.
The
Death
of
Laughter
,
was
the
last
of
all
,
and
surrounded
with
a
Throng
of
people
,
hasty
to
Believe
,
and
slow
to
Repent
;
Living
without
fear
of
Iustice
,
and
Dying
without
hope
of
Mercy
.
These
are
they
that
pay
all
their
Debts
and
Duties
with
a
Jest.
Bid
any
of
them
give
every
man
his
Due
,
and
Return
what
he
has
either
Borrow'd
,
or
wrongfully
taken
,
His
Answer
is
,
You
'd
make
a
man
dye
with
Laughing
.
Tell
him
,
my
Friend
,
You
are
now
in
years
,
Your
dancing
dayes
are
done
,
and
your
Body
is
worn
out
;
what
should
such
a
Scare-Crow
as
you
are
,
do
with
a
Bed-fellow
?
Give
over
your
Bawdy
Haunts
for
shame
,
and
do
n't
make
a
man
Glory
of
a
Sin
,
when
you
're
past
the
Pleasure
of
it
,
and
your self
upon
all
Accompts
contemptible
into
the
Bargain
.
This
Fellow
(
sayes
He
)
would
make
a
man
break
his
heart
with
Laughing
.
Come
,
come
,
say
your
Prayers
,
and
bethink
your self
of
Eternity
,
you
have
one
Foot
in
the
Grave
already
,
and
't
is
high
time
to
fit
your self
for
the
other
World
.
Thou
wilt
absolutely
kill
me
with
Laughing
.
I
tell
thee
I
'm
as
sound
as
a
Roche
,
and
I
do
not
Remember
that
ever
I
was
better
in
my
Life
.
Others
there
are
,
that
,
let
a
man
advise
them
upon
their
Death
Beds
and
even
at
the
last
Gasp
,
to
send
for
a
Divine
,
or
to
make
some
handsome
settlement
of
their
Estates
.
Alas
,
Alas
!
they
'l
cry
;
I
have
been
as
bad
as
this
many
a
time
before
,
and
(
with
Falstaffe's
Hostess
)
I
hope
in
the
Lord
there
's
no
need
to
think
of
him
yet
.
These
men
are
lost
for
ever
,
before
they
can
be
brought
to
understand
their
Danger
.
This
Vision
wrought
strangely
upon
me
,
and
gave
me
all
the
Pains
and
Marques
Imaginable
of
a
true
Repentance
.
Well
,
(
said
I
)
since
so
it
is
,
that
man
has
but
one
life
allotted
him
,
and
so
many
Deaths
;
but
one
way
into
the
World
,
and
so
many
Millions
out
of
it
,
I
will
certainly
at
my
Return
make
it
more
my
Care
than
it
has
been
to
Live
with
a
Good
Conscience
,
that
I
may
dye
with
Comfort
.
These
last
words
were
scarce
out
of
my
Mouth
,
when
the
Cryer
of
the
Court
with
a
loud
Voice
,
Called
out
,
The
Dead
,
The
Dead
;
Appear
the
Dead
.
And
so
immediately
,
I
saw
the
Earth
begin
to
Move
,
and
gently
opening
it self
,
to
make
way
,
first
for
Heads
and
Arms
,
and
then
by
Degrees
for
the
whole
Bodies
of
Men
and
Women
,
that
came
out
,
half
muffled
in
their
Night-Caps
,
and
ranged
themselves
in
excellent
Order
,
and
with
a
profound
silence
.
Now
(
says
Death
)
let
every
one
speak
in
his
Turn
;
And
in
the
instant
,
up
comes
One
of
the
Dead
to
my
very
Beard
,
with
so
much
Fury
and
Menace
,
in
his
Face
and
Action
,
that
I
would
have
given
him
half
the
Teeth
in
my
Head
for
a
Composition
.
These
Devils
of
the
World
(
quoth
he
)
what
would
they
be
at
?
my
Masters
,
cannot
a
poor
Wretch
be
quiet
in
his
Grave
for
ye
?
but
ye
must
be
Casting
your
Scorns
upon
him
,
and
charging
him
with
things
that
upon
my
Soul
,
he
's
as
Innocent
of
as
the
Child
that
's
Unborn
.
What
hurt
has
he
done
any
of
you
(
ye
Scoundrels
you
)
to
be
thus
Abused
.
And
I
beseech
you
,
Sir
,
said
I
(
under
your
Favourable
Correction
)
who
may
you
be
?
for
I
confess
I
have
not
the
Honour
either
to
Know
or
to
understand
ye
.
I
am
(
quoth
he
)
the
Unfortunate
Tony
,
that
has
been
in
his
Grave
now
this
many
a
fair
year
,
and
yet
your
wise
Worships
forsooth
have
not
wit
enough
to
make
your
Selves
and
your
Company
merry
,
but
Tony
must
still
be
one
half
of
your
Entertainment
and
Discourse
.
When
any
man
plays
the
Fool
or
the
Extravagant
,
presently
He
's
a
Tony.
Who
drew
this
or
that
Ridiculous
Piece
?
Tony.
Such
or
such
a
one
was
never
well
taught
:
No
,
he
had
a
Tony
to
his
Master
.
But
let
me
tell
ye
,
He
that
shall
call
your
Wisdoms
to
shrift
,
and
take
a
strict
accompt
of
your
words
and
actions
,
will
upon
the
Upshot
find
you
all
a
Company
of
Tonys
:
and
in
Effect
the
Greater
Impertinents
.
As
for
Instance
;
Did
I
ever
make
Ridiculous
Wills
(
as
you
do
)
to
oblige
others
to
pray
for
a
man
in
his
Grave
,
that
never
pray'd
for
Himself
in
his
Life
?
Did
I
ever
rebell
against
my
Superiors
?
Or
,
was
I
ever
so
arrant
a
Coxcomb
,
as
by
colouring
my
Cheeks
and
Hair
,
to
imagine
that
I
could
reform
Nature
,
and
make
my Self
young
again
?
Can
ye
say
,
that
I
ever
put
an
Oath
to
a
Lye
?
or
,
broke
a
solemn
Promise
,
as
you
do
every
day
that
goes
over
your
Heads
?
Did
I
ever
enslave
my self
to
money
?
Or
,
on
the
other
side
,
make
Ducks
and
Drakes
with
it
?
and
squander
it
away
in
Gaming
,
Revelling
,
and
Whoring
?
Did
my
Wife
●ver
wear
the
Breeches
?
Or
,
did
I
ever
marry
at
all
,
to
be
reveng'd
of
a
false
Mistress
?
Was
I
ever
so
very
a
fool
as
to
believe
any
man
would
be
True
to
me
,
who
had
betray'd
his
Friend
?
Or
,
to
venture
all
my
Hopes
upon
the
Wheel
of
Fortune
?
Did
I
ever
envy
the
Felicity
of
a
Court-life
,
that
sells
and
spends
all
for
a
Glance
?
What
pleasure
did
I
ever
take
in
the
lewd
Discourses
of
Hereticks
and
Libertines
?
Or
,
did
I
ever
List
my self
in
the
party
,
to
get
the
name
of
a
Gifted-Brother
?
Who
ever
saw
me
Insolent
to
my
Inferiors
,
or
Basely
Servile
to
my
betters
?
Did
I
ever
go
to
a
Conjurer
,
or
to
your
Dealers
in
Nativities
,
and
Horoscopes
upon
any
Occasion
of
Loss
or
Death
?
Now
if
you
your selves
be
guilty
of
all
these
Fopperies
,
and
I
innocent
,
I
beseech
ye
where
's
the
Tony
?
So
that
you
see
Tony
is
not
the
Tony
you
take
him
for
.
But
(
to
Crown
his
other
Vertues
)
he
is
also
endued
with
so
large
a
stock
of
Patience
,
that
whoever
needed
it
,
had
it
for
the
asking
:
Unless
it
were
such
as
came
to
borrow
money
;
or
in
Cases
of
Women
,
that
claim'd
Marriage
of
him
;
or
Laquais
that
would
be
making
sport
with
his
Bauble
;
and
to
These
,
He
was
as
Resolute
as
Iohn
Florio
.
While
we
were
upon
this
Discourse
,
another
of
the
Dead
came
marching
up
to
me
,
with
a
Spanish
pace
and
gravity
;
and
giving
me
a
Touch
o'
the
Elbow
;
Look
me
in
the
Face
(
quoth
he
with
a
stern
Countenance
)
and
know
Sir
,
that
you
are
not
now
to
have
to
do
with
a
Tony.
I
beseech
your
Lordship
(
said
I
,
saving
your
Reverence
)
let
me
know
your
Honour
,
that
I
may
pay
my
Respects
accordingly
;
for
I
must
confess
,
I
thought
all
people
here
had
been
,
Hail
fellow
well
met
?
I
am
call'd
(
quoth
he
)
by
mortals
,
Queen
Dick
;
and
whether
you
know
me
or
not
,
I
'm
sure
you
'l
think
of
me
often
enough
:
and
if
the
Devil
did
not
possess
ye
,
you
would
let
the
Dead
alone
,
and
content
your selves
to
persecute
One
Another
.
Ye
can't
see
a
High-crown'd
Hat
,
a
Thred-bare
Cloak
,
a
Basket-hilt
Sword
,
or
a
Dudgeon
Dagger
,
nay
not
so
much
as
a
Reverend
Matron
well
striken
in
years
,
but
presently
ye
cry
This
or
That
's
of
the
Mode
or
Date
of
Queen
Dick.
If
ye
were
not
every
Mother's
Child
of
ye
stark
mad
,
ye
would
confess
that
Queen
Dick's
were
Golden-daies
to
those
ye
have
had
since
,
and
't
is
an
easie
matter
to
prove
what
I
say
.
Will
ye
see
a
Mother
now
teaching
her
Daughter
a
Lesson
of
good
Government
?
Child
(
says
she
)
you
know
that
modesty
is
the
great
Ornament
of
your
Sex
;
wherefore
be
sure
,
when
ye
come
in
Company
,
that
you
don't
stand
staring
the
men
in
the
Face
,
as
if
ye
were
looking
Babies
in
their
Eyes
,
but
rather
look
a
little
Downward
,
as
a
Fashion
of
Behaviour
,
more
sutable
to
the
Obligations
of
your
Sex
.
Downward
?
(
says
the
Girl
)
I
beseech
you
,
Madam
,
Excuse
me
:
This
was
well
enough
in
the
Days
of
Queen
Dick
,
when
the
poor
Creatures
knew
no
better
.
Let
the
Men
look
downward
toward
the
Clay
of
which
they
were
made
,
but
Man
was
our
Original
,
and
it
will
become
us
to
keep
our
Eyes
upon
the
matter
from
whence
we
came
.
If
a
Father
give
his
Son
in
Charge
,
to
Worship
his
Creator
,
to
say
his
Prayers
Morning
and
Evening
,
to
give
Thanks
before
and
after
Meat
,
to
have
a
care
of
Gaming
and
Swearing
.
Ye
shall
have
the
Son
make
Answer
,
that
't
is
true
,
this
was
practis'd
in
the
time
of
Queen
Dick
;
but
it
is
now
quite
out
of
Mode
:
And
in
plain
English
,
men
are
better
known
now
a
daies
by
their
Atheism
and
Blasphemy
,
than
by
their
Beards
.
Hereupon
,
Queen
Dick
withdrew
,
and
then
appear'd
a
large
Glass-bottle
,
wherein
was
Luted
up
(
as
I
heard
)
a
famous
Necromancer
,
hackt
and
minc'd
according
to
his
own
Order
,
to
render
him
Immortal
.
It
was
boiling
upon
a
Quick
fire
,
and
the
Flesh
by
little
and
little
began
to
piece
again
,
and
made
first
an
Arm
,
then
a
Thigh
,
after
That
a
Leg
;
and
at
last
there
was
an
entire
Body
,
that
rais'd
it self
upright
in
the
Bottle
.
Bless
me
(
thought
I
!
)
what
's
here
?
A
man
made
of
a
Pottage
,
and
brought
into
the
world
out
of
the
Belly
of
a
Bottle
?
This
Vision
affrighted
me
to
the
very
Heart
;
and
while
I
was
yet
panting
and
trembling
,
a
voice
was
heard
out
of
the
Glass
.
In
what
year
of
our
Lord
are
we
.
1636
(
quoth
I
)
And
welcome
,
said
he
;
for
't
is
the
happy
year
I
have
longed
for
this
many
a
day
.
Who
is
it
,
I
pray'e
(
quoth
I
)
that
I
now
see
and
hear
in
the
belly
of
this
Bottle
?
I
am
(
said
he
)
the
Great
Necromancer
of
Europe
;
and
certainly
you
cannot
but
have
heard
both
of
my
Operations
in
General
,
and
of
this
particular
Design
.
I
have
heard
talk
of
you
from
a
Child
(
quoth
I
)
but
all
those
stories
I
took
only
for
old
Wives
Fables
.
You
are
the
man
then
it
seems
:
I
must
confess
that
at
first
,
at
a
Distance
I
took
this
bottle
for
the
Vessel
that
the
Ingenious
Rablais
makes
mention
of
;
but
coming
neer
enough
to
see
what
was
in
it
,
I
did
then
imagine
it
might
be
some
Philosopher
by
the
fire
,
or
some
Apothecary
doing
Penance
for
his
Errors
.
In
fine
,
it
has
cost
me
many
a
heavy
step
to
come
hither
,
and
yet
to
see
so
great
a
Rarity
I
cannot
but
think
my
Time
and
Pains
very
well
bestow'd
.
The
Necromancer
call'd
to
me
then
to
unstop
the
Bottle
,
and
as
I
was
breaking
the
Clay
to
open
it
:
Hold
,
Hold
a
little
,
He
cry'd
;
and
I
prethee
tell
me
first
how
go
squares
in
Spain
?
What
Mony
?
Force
?
Credit
?
The
Plate-Fleets
go
and
come
(
said
I
)
reasonably
well
;
but
the
Forreigners
that
come
in
for
their
snips
have
half
spoil'd
the
Trade
.
The
Genoeses
run
out
as
far
as
the
mountains
of
Potoss
,
and
have
almost
drain'd
them
dry
.
My
Child
(
quoth
He
)
That
Trade
can
never
be
secure
and
open
,
so
long
as
Spain
has
any
Enemy
that
's
Potent
at
Sea
.
And
for
the
Genoeses
,
they
'l
tell
you
this
is
no
Injustice
at
all
,
but
on
the
Contrary
,
a
new
way
of
quitting
old
scores
,
and
justifying
his
Catholick
Majesty
for
a
good
Pay-master
.
I
am
no
Enemy
to
that
Nation
,
but
upon
the
Accompt
of
their
Vices
and
Encrochments
;
and
I
confess
,
rather
than
see
these
Rascals
prosper
,
I
'd
turn
my self
into
a
Bouillon
again
,
as
ye
saw
me
just
now
;
nay
,
I
did
not
care
if
't
were
into
a
Powder
,
though
I
ended
my
daies
in
a
Tobacco-box
.
Good
Sir
,
(
said
I
)
comfort
your self
,
for
these
people
are
as
miserable
as
you
'd
wish
them
.
You
know
they
are
Cavaliers
and
Signeurs
already
,
and
now
(
forsooth
)
they
have
an
Itch
upon
them
to
be
Princes
:
A
vanity
that
gnaws
them
like
a
Cancer
;
and
by
drawing
on
great
Expences
,
breeds
a
Worm
in
their
Traffick
,
so
that
you
'l
find
little
but
Debt
and
Extravagance
at
the
foot
of
the
Accompt
.
And
then
the
Devils
in
them
for
a
Wench
,
insomuch
,
that
't
is
well
,
if
they
bring
both
ends
together
;
for
what
's
gotten
upon
the
Change
is
spent
in
the
Stews
.
This
is
well
(
quoth
the
Necromancer
)
and
I
'm
glad
to
hear
it
.
Pray'e
tell
me
now
,
what
price
bears
Honour
and
Honesty
in
the
World
?
There
's
much
to
be
said
(
quoth
I
)
upon
that
point
:
but
in
brief
,
there
was
never
more
of
it
in
Talk
,
nor
less
in
Effect
.
Upon
my
Honesty
cries
the
Tradesman
:
Upon
my
Honour
,
says
his
Lordship
.
And
in
a
word
,
Every
man
has
it
,
and
Every
thing
is
it
,
in
some
disguise
or
other
:
but
duly
consider'd
,
there
's
no
such
thing
upon
the
Face
of
the
Earth
.
The
Thief
says
't
is
more
Honourable
to
Take
than
Beg.
He
that
asks
an
Alms
,
pleads
that
't
is
Honester
to
Beg
than
Steal
.
Nay
the
False
Witnesses
and
Murtherers
themselves
,
stand
upon
their
points
,
as
well
as
their
Neighbours
,
and
will
tell
ye
that
a
Man
of
Honour
will
rather
be
buried
alive
than
Submit
:
(
though
they
will
not
alwayes
do
as
they
say
)
Upon
the
whole
matter
,
every
man
sets
up
a
Court
of
Honour
within
himself
;
pronounces
every
thing
Honourable
that
serves
his
Purpose
,
and
laughs
at
them
that
think
otherwise
.
To
say
the
Truth
,
All
things
are
now
Topsy
Turvy
.
A
good
Faculty
in
Lying
is
a
fair
step
to
Preferment
;
and
to
Pack
a
Game
at
Cards
,
or
help
the
frail
Dye
,
is
become
the
Marque
,
and
Glory
of
a
Cavalier
.
The
Spaniards
were
heretofore
,
I
confess
,
a
very
Brave
,
and
well
govern'd
People
:
But
they
have
Evil
Tongues
among
them
now
adays
,
that
say
they
might
e'en
go
to
School
to
the
Indians
to
learn
Sobriety
,
and
Vertue
.
For
they
are
not
really
Sober
,
but
at
their
own
Tables
,
which
indeed
,
is
rather
Avarice
▪
than
Moderation
;
for
when
they
Eat
or
Drink
at
another
man's
Cost
,
there
are
no
greater
Gluttons
in
the
World
;
and
for
Fudling
,
they
shall
make
the
best
Pot-Companion
in
Switzerland
knock
under
the
Table
.
The
Necromancer
went
on
with
his
Discourse
,
and
askt
me
what
store
of
Lawyers
,
and
Atturneys
in
Spain
at
present
?
I
told
him
,
that
the
whole
world
swarm'd
with
them
,
and
that
there
were
of
several
sorts
;
some
,
by
Profession
;
Others
,
by
Intrusion
,
and
Presumption
;
and
some
again
by
Study
,
but
not
many
of
the
last
,
though
indeed
sufficient
of
every
kind
to
make
the
People
pray
for
the
Egyptian
Locusts
and
Caterpillars
in
Exchange
for
that
Vermine
.
Why
then
(
quoth
the
Necromancer
)
if
there
be
such
Plagues
Abroad
,
I
think
I
had
best
e'en
keep
where
I
am
.
It
is
with
Iustice
(
said
I
)
as
with
sick
men
;
In
time
past
,
when
we
had
fewer
Doctors
(
as
well
of
Law
as
of
Physick
)
we
had
more
Right
,
and
more
Health
:
but
we
are
now
destroy'd
by
Multitudes
,
and
Consultations
,
which
serve
to
no
Other
end
than
to
enflame
both
the
Distemper
,
and
the
Reckoning
.
Iustice
,
as
well
as
Truth
,
went
naked
,
In
the
Dayes
of
Old
;
One
single
Book
of
Laws
and
Ordinances
,
was
enough
for
the
best
Order'd
Governments
in
the
world
.
But
the
Iustice
of
our
Age
,
is
trickt
up
with
Bills
,
Parchments
,
Writs
,
and
Labels
;
and
furnish't
with
Millions
of
Codes
,
Digests
,
Pandects
,
Pleadings
,
and
Reports
;
And
what
's
their
use
,
but
to
make
wrangling
a
Science
?
and
to
Embroil
us
in
seditions
,
Suits
,
and
Endless
Trouble
and
Confusion
.
We
have
had
more
books
publish't
this
last
Twenty
years
,
than
in
a
Thousand
before
,
and
there
hardly
passes
a
Term
without
a
New
Author
,
in
four
or
five
Volumes
at
least
under
the
Titles
of
Glosses
,
Commentaries
,
Cases
,
Iudgments
,
&c.
And
the
great
strife
is
,
who
writes
Most
,
not
Best
;
so
that
the
whole
Bulk
,
is
but
a
Body
without
a
Soul
,
and
fitter
for
a
Church-yard
than
a
Study
.
To
say
the
Truth
,
These
Lawyers
and
Sollicitors
,
are
but
so
many
Smoak-Merchants
;
Sellers
of
Wind
,
and
Troublers
of
the
Publick
Peace
.
If
there
were
no
Atturneys
,
there
would
be
no
Suits
;
if
no
Suits
,
No
Cheats
,
No
Serjeants
;
No
Catchpoles
,
No
Prisons
;
If
no
Prisons
,
no
Iudges
;
No
Iudges
,
No
Passion
;
No
Passion
,
No
Bribery
or
Subornation
.
See
now
what
a
Train
of
Mischiefs
one
wretched
Pettyfogger
draws
after
him
!
If
you
go
to
him
for
Counsel
,
he
hears
your
Story
,
Reads
your
Case
,
and
tells
you
very
gravely
:
Sir
,
This
is
a
Nice
point
,
and
would
be
well
handled
;
Wee
'l
see
what
the
Law
says
.
And
then
he
runs
ye
over
with
his
Eye
and
Finger
,
a
matter
of
a
Hundred
Volums
,
grumbling
all
the
while
,
like
a
Cat
that
Claws
in
her
Play
'twixt
jest
and
Earnest
.
At
last
,
down
comes
the
Book
,
he
shews
ye
the
Law
,
bids
ye
leave
your
Papers
,
and
hee
'l
study
the
Question
.
But
your
Cause
is
very
good
(
sayes
he
)
by
what
I
see
already
,
and
if
you
'l
come
again
in
the
Evening
,
or
to
morrow
morning
,
I
'le
tell
ye
more
.
But
pardon
me
,
Sir
,
now
I
think
on
't
,
I
am
so
full
of
Business
at
present
,
It
cannot
be
till
Munday
Next
,
and
then
I
'm
for
ye
.
When
ye
are
to
part
,
and
that
you
come
to
the
Greasing
of
his
Fift
;
(
The
best
Thing
in
the
World
both
for
the
Wit
,
and
Memory
)
Good
Lord
!
Sir
(
says
he
)
what
do
ye
Mean
?
I
beseech
you
Sir
;
Nay
,
pray'e
Sir
,
and
if
he
spyes
you
drawing
back
,
the
Paw
opens
,
seizes
the
Guinneys
,
and
Good
morrow
Country
man
;
sayst
thou
me
so
?
(
quoth
the
good
Fellow
in
the
Glas
)
stop
me
up
close
again
as
thou
lov'st
me
then
:
for
the
very
Air
of
these
Rascals
will
poyson
me
,
if
ever
I
put
my
Head
out
of
this
Bottle
,
till
the
whole
Race
of
them
be
extinct
.
In
the
mean
time
,
take
this
for
a
Rule
.
He
that
would
thrive
by
Law
,
must
fee
his
Enemies
Counsel
as
well
as
his
own
.
But
now
ye
talk
of
great
Cheats
;
what
News
of
the
Venetians
?
Is
Venice
yet
in
the
World
or
no
?
In
the
World
do
ye
say
?
Yes
,
marry
Is
't
(
said
I
)
and
stands
just
where
it
did
.
Why
then
(
quoth
He
)
I
prethee
give
it
to
the
Devil
from
me
as
a
Token
of
my
Love
;
for
't
is
a
Present
equal
to
the
severest
Revenge
.
Nothing
can
ever
destroy
that
Republick
but
Conscience
;
and
then
you
'l
say
't
is
like
to
be
Long-liv'd
;
for
if
every
man
had
his
own
,
it
would
not
be
left
worth
a
Groat
.
To
speak
freely
,
't
is
an
od
kind
of
Common-wealth
.
'T
is
the
very
Arsegut
,
the
Drain
and
Sink
of
Monarchies
,
both
in
War
and
Peace
.
It
helps
the
Turk
to
Vex
the
Christians
,
and
the
Christians
to
Gall
the
Turk
,
and
maintains
it self
to
torment
Both.
The
Inhabitants
are
neither
Mores
nor
Christians
,
as
appears
by
a
Venetian
Captain
,
in
a
Combat
against
a
Christian
Enemy
:
Stand
to
't
my
Masters
(
says
he
)
Ye
were
Venetians
before
ye
were
Christians
.
Enough
enough
,
of
This
,
cry'd
the
Necromancer
,
and
tell
me
,
how
stand
the
people
affected
?
what
Malecontents
and
Mutiners
?
Mutiny
(
said
I
)
is
so
Universal
a
Disease
,
that
every
Kingdom
is
(
in
Effect
)
but
a
Great
Hospital
,
or
rather
a
Bedlam
(
for
all
men
are
mad
)
to
entertain
the
Disaffected
.
There
's
no
stirring
for
me
then
(
quoth
the
Necromancer
)
but
pray'e
commend
me
however
to
those
busy
Fools
,
and
tell
them
,
that
carry
what
Face
they
will
,
there
's
Vanity
and
Ambition
in
the
Pad
.
Kings
and
Princes
have
in
●heir
Nature
much
of
Quick
silver
.
They
are
in
perpetual
Agitation
,
and
without
any
Repose
Press
them
too
hard
,
(
that
is
to
say
beyond
the
Bounds
of
Duty
and
Reason
)
and
they
are
lost
.
Ye
may
observe
,
that
your
Guilders
,
and
great
Dealers
in
Quick-silver
,
are
generally
troubled
with
the
Palsy
;
and
so
should
all
Subjects
Tremble
that
have
to
do
with
Majesty
,
and
better
to
do
it
at
first
,
out
of
Respect
,
then
afterward
,
upon
Force
and
Necessity
.
But
before
I
fall
to
pieces
again
,
as
you
saw
me
e'en
now
(
for
better
so
than
worse
)
I
beseech
ye
,
One
word
more
,
and
it
shall
be
my
Last
.
Who
's
King
of
Spain
now
?
You
know
(
said
I
)
that
Phillip
the
3d.
is
Dead
:
Right
(
quoth
he
)
A
Prince
of
Incomparable
Piety
,
and
Vertue
(
or
my
stars
deceive
me
)
After
him
,
(
said
I
)
came
Philip
the
4th
.
If
it
be
so
(
quoth
he
)
Break
,
break
my
Bottle
immediately
,
and
help
me
out
;
for
I
am
resolv'd
to
try
my
Fortune
in
the
world
once
again
,
under
the
Reign
of
that
Glorious
Prince
.
And
with
that
word
,
he
dash't
the
Glass
to
pieces
against
a
Rock
,
crept
out
of
his
Case
and
away
he
ran
.
I
had
a
good
mind
to
have
kept
him
Company
;
but
as
I
was
just
about
to
start
,
Let
him
go
,
let
him
go
,
cry'd
one
of
the
Dead
;
(
and
laid
hold
of
my
Arm
)
He
has
Devillish
Heeles
,
and
you
'l
never
overtake
him
.
So
I
staid
,
and
what
should
I
see
next
?
but
a
wondrous
Old
Man
,
whose
Name
might
have
been
Bucephalus
by
his
Head
,
and
the
Hair
on
his
Face
might
very
well
have
stuff'd
a
Couple
of
Cushions
:
take
him
together
,
and
you
'l
find
his
Picture
in
the
Map
,
among
the
Savages
.
I
need
not
tell
ye
that
I
stared
upon
him
sufficiently
;
and
he
taking
notice
of
it
,
came
to
me
,
and
told
me
;
Friend
(
says
he
)
My
Spirit
tells
me
that
you
are
now
in
Pain
to
know
who
I
am
;
Understand
,
that
my
Name
is
Nostradamus
.
Are
you
the
Author
then
(
quoth
I
)
of
that
Gallimaufry
of
Prophecyes
that
's
publish't
in
your
Name
?
Gallimaufry
say'st
thou
?
Impudent
and
Barbarous
Rascal
that
thou
art
;
to
despise
Misteries
,
that
are
above
thy
Reach
,
and
to
Revile
the
Secretary
of
the
Stars
,
and
the
Interpreter
of
the
Destinyes
;
Who
is
so
Brutal
as
to
doubt
the
Meaning
of
these
Lines
?
From
second
Causes
This
I
gather
,
Nought
shall
befal
us
,
Good
,
or
Ill
,
Either
upon
the
Land
,
or
Water
,
But
what
the
Great
Disposer
will
.
Reprobated
and
besotted
Villains
that
ye
are
!
what
greater
blessing
could
betide
the
world
,
then
the
Accomplishment
of
this
Prophecy
?
would
it
not
Establish
Justice
and
Holyness
,
and
suppress
all
the
vile
suggestions
,
and
motions
of
the
Devil
?
Men
would
not
then
any
longer
set
their
Hearts
upon
Avarice
,
Cozening
and
Extortion
;
and
make
Money
their
God
;
That
Vagabond
Money
,
that
's
perpetually
trotting
up
and
down
like
a
wandring
whore
,
and
takes
up
most
commonly
with
the
unworthy
,
leaving
the
Philosophers
and
Prophets
,
which
are
the
very
Oracles
of
the
Heavens
(
such
as
Nostradamus
)
to
go
barefoot
.
But
let
's
go
on
with
our
Prophecyes
,
and
see
if
they
be
so
frivolous
and
dark
,
as
the
world
reports
them
.
When
the
marry'd
shall
Marry
,
Then
the
Jealous
will
be
sorry
.
And
though
Fools
will
be
talking
,
To
keep
their
tongues
walking
;
No
man
runs
well
I
find
,
But
with
's
Elbows
behind
.
This
gave
me
such
a
Fit
of
Laughing
,
that
it
made
me
cast
my
nose
up
into
the
Air
,
like
a
Stone-horse
that
had
got
a
Mare
in
the
Wind
:
Which
put
the
Astrologer
out
of
all
Patience
.
Buffon
,
and
Dog-whelp
,
as
ye
are
(
quoth
he
)
There
's
a
Bone
for
you
to
pick
;
you
must
be
snarling
and
snapping
at
every
thing
.
Will
your
Teeth
serve
ye
now
to
fetch
out
the
Marrow
of
this
Prophecy
?
Hear
then
in
the
Devils
name
,
and
be
Mannerly
.
Hear
,
and
Learn
I
say
,
and
let
's
have
no
more
of
that
Grinning
,
unless
ye
have
a
mind
to
leave
your
Beard
behind
he
.
Do
you
imagine
that
all
that
are
Marry'd
,
Marry
?
No
,
not
the
one
half
of
them
.
When
you
are
Marry'd
,
the
Priest
has
done
his
part
;
but
after
that
,
to
Marry
,
is
to
do
the
Duty
of
a
Husband
.
Alack
!
How
many
Marry'd
men
live
as
if
they
were
single
;
and
how
many
Batchelors
on
the
other
side
,
as
if
they
were
Marry'd
!
after
the
Mode
of
the
Times
.
And
Wedlock
,
to
divers
Couples
,
is
no
other
than
a
more
sociable
state
of
Virginity
.
Here
's
one
half
of
my
Prophecy
expounded
already
,
now
for
the
Rest.
Let
me
see
you
run
a
little
for
Experiment
,
and
try
if
you
carry
your
Elbows
before
or
behind
.
You
'l
tell
me
perhaps
,
that
this
is
ridiculous
,
because
every
body
knows
it
.
A
pleasant
shift
:
As
if
Truth
were
the
worse
for
being
Plain
.
The
things
indeed
that
you
deliver
for
Truths
,
are
for
the
most
part
meer
Fooleries
and
Mistakes
;
and
it
were
a
hard
matter
to
put
Truth
in
such
a
Dress
as
would
please
ye
.
What
have
ye
to
say
now
,
either
against
my
Prophecy
or
my
Argument
?
not
a
Syllable
I
warrant
ye
,
and
yet
somewhat
there
is
to
be
said
,
for
There
's
no
Rule
without
an
Exception
.
Does
not
the
Physician
carry
his
Elbow
before
him
,
when
he
puts
back
his
hand
to
take
his
Patients
Money
?
And
away
he
's
gone
in
a
Trice
,
so
soon
as
He
has
made
his
Purchase
.
But
to
proceed
,
here
's
another
of
my
Prophecies
for
ye
,
Many
Women
shall
be
Mothers
,
And
their
Babbies
,
Their
N'own
Daddies
.
What
say
ye
to
this
now
?
are
there
not
many
Husbands
do
ye
think
(
if
the
Truth
were
known
)
that
father
more
Children
than
their
own
?
Believe
me
(
Friend
)
A
man
had
need
have
good
security
upon
a
Womans
Belly
,
for
Children
are
commonly
made
in
the
Dark
,
and
't
is
no
easie
matter
to
know
the
Workman
,
especially
having
nothing
but
the
woman's
bare
word
for
't
.
This
is
meant
of
the
Court
of
Assistance
;
And
whoever
Interprets
my
Prophesies
to
the
Prejudice
of
any
Person
of
Honour
,
abuses
me
.
You
little
think
what
a
world
of
our
Gay
folks
in
their
Coaches
and
six
,
with
Lacquies
at
their
Heels
by
the
Dozens
,
will
be
found
at
the
last
Day
,
to
be
only
the
Bastards
of
some
Pages
,
Gentlemen-Vshers
,
or
Valets
de
Chambre
of
the
Family
;
nay
perchance
the
Physician
may
have
had
his
hand
in
the
wrong
Box
,
and
in
case
of
necessity
,
good
Use
has
been
made
of
a
Lusty
Coachman
.
Little
do
you
think
(
I
say
)
how
many
Noble
Families
upon
that
Grand
Discovery
,
will
be
found
Extinct
for
want
of
Issue
.
I
am
now
convinc'd
(
said
I
to
the
Mathematician
)
of
the
Excellency
of
your
Predictions
;
and
I
perceive
(
since
you
have
been
pleas'd
to
be
your
own
Interpreter
)
that
they
have
more
weight
in
them
,
than
we
were
aware
of
.
Ye
shall
have
one
more
(
quoth
he
)
and
I
have
done
.
This
Year
,
if
I
've
any
skill
i'
th'
Weather
,
Shall
many
a
one
take
Wing
with
a
Feather
.
I
dare
say
that
your
wit
will
serve
ye
now
to
Imagine
,
that
I
'm
talking
of
Rooks
and
Iack-daws
;
but
I
say
,
No.
I
speak
of
Lawyers
,
Attorneys
,
Clerks
,
Scriveners
,
and
their
Fellows
,
that
with
the
Dash
of
a
Pen
,
can
defeat
their
Clients
of
their
Estates
,
and
flye
away
with
them
when
they
have
done
.
Upon
these
words
Nostradamus
Vanisht
,
and
some
body
plucking
me
behind
,
I
turn'd
my
face
upon
the
most
meager
,
melancholick
Wretch
that
ever
was
seen
,
and
cover'd
all
in
white
.
For
pitty's
sake
(
says
he
)
and
as
you
are
a
good
Christian
,
do
but
deliver
me
from
the
Persecution
of
these
Impertinents
and
Bablers
that
are
now
tormenting
me
,
and
I
'l
be
your
Slave
for
ever
(
casting
himself
at
my
Feet
in
the
same
Moment
,
and
crying
like
a
Child
.
)
And
what
art
thou
(
quoth
I
)
for
a
miserable
Creature
?
I
am
(
says
he
)
an
Ancient
,
and
an
Honest
man
,
although
defam'd
with
a
thousand
Reproches
and
Slanders
:
And
in
fine
,
some
call
me
Another
,
and
others
Some-body
,
and
doubtless
ye
cannot
but
have
heard
of
me
.
As
Some-body
says
,
cryes
one
,
that
has
nothing
to
say
for
himself
;
and
yet
till
this
Instant
,
I
never
so
much
as
open'd
my
mouth
.
The
Latines
call
me
Quidam
,
and
make
good
use
of
me
to
fill
up
Lines
,
and
stop
Gaps
.
When
you
go
back
again
into
the
World
,
I
pray'e
do
me
the
Favour
to
own
that
you
have
seen
me
,
and
to
justifie
me
for
one
that
never
did
,
and
never
will
either
speak
or
write
any
thing
,
whatever
some
Tatling
Ideots
may
pretend
.
When
they
bring
me
into
Quarrels
and
Brawles
,
I
am
call'd
forsooth
,
A
certain
Person
:
In
their
Intrigues
,
I
know
not
who
:
and
in
the
Pulpit
,
A
certain
Author
:
and
all
this
,
to
make
a
Mystery
of
my
Name
,
and
lay
all
their
Fooleries
at
my
Door
.
Wherefore
I
beseech
ye
help
me
;
which
I
promis'd
to
do
.
And
so
this
Vision
withdrew
to
make
Place
for
another
,
And
That
was
the
most
frightful
piece
of
Antiquity
that
ever
Eye
beheld
in
the
shape
of
an
Old
Woman
.
She
came
nodding
tow●rds
me
,
and
in
a
Hollow
,
Ratling
Tone
(
for
she
spoke
more
with
her
Chops
,
than
her
Tongue
)
Pray'e
(
says
she
)
●s
there
not
some
body
come
lately
hither
from
the
other
World
?
This
Apparition
,
thought
I
,
is
undoubtedly
one
of
the
Devils
Scare-Crows
.
Her
Eyes
were
so
sunk
in
their
Sockets
,
that
they
lookt
like
a
pair
of
Dice
in
the
bottom
of
a
couple
of
Red-boxes
.
Her
Cheeks
and
the
Soles
of
her
Feet
,
were
of
the
same
Complexion
.
Her
mouth
was
pale
,
and
open
too
;
the
better
to
receive
the
Distillations
of
her
Nose
.
Her
Chin
was
cover'd
with
a
kind
of
Goose-Down
,
as
Toothless
as
a
Lamprey
;
and
the
Flaps
of
her
Cheeks
were
like
an
Apes
Bags
;
Her
Head
danc'd
,
and
her
Voice
at
every
word
kept
time
to
't
.
Her
Body
was
vail'd
,
or
rather
wrapt
up
in
a
shroud
of
Cre'pe
.
She
had
a
Crutch
in
one
hand
,
which
serv'd
her
for
a
Supporter
;
and
a
Rosary
in
t'other
,
of
such
a
length
,
that
as
she
stood
stooping
over
it
,
a
man
would
have
thought
she
had
been
fishing
for
Deaths
Heads
.
When
I
had
done
gaping
upon
This
Epitome
of
past-ages
;
Hola
!
Grannum
(
quoth
I
,
good
lustily
in
her
Ear
,
taking
for
granted
that
she
was
deaf
)
what
's
your
Pleasure
with
me
?
with
that
she
gave
a
Grunt
and
being
much
in
wrath
to
be
called
Grannum
,
clapt
a
fair
pair
of
Spectacles
upon
her
Nose
,
and
pinking
through
them
;
I
am
,
quoth
she
,
neither
Deaf
,
nor
Grannum
;
but
may
be
called
by
my
Name
as
well
as
my
Neighbours
(
giving
to
understand
,
that
Women
will
take
it
ill
to
be
called
Old
,
even
in
their
very
Graves
.
As
she
spake
,
she
came
still
neerer
me
,
with
her
Eyes
dropping
,
and
the
smell
about
her
perfectly
of
a
Dead
Body
.
I
beg'd
her
Pardon
for
what
was
past
,
and
for
the
future
her
Name
,
that
I
might
be
sure
to
keep
my self
within
the
Bounds
of
Respect
.
I
am
call'd
(
sayes
she
)
Doüegna
,
or
Madam
the
Gouvernante
.
How
's
that
?
quoth
I
,
in
a
great
Amazement
.
Have
ye
any
of
those
Cattle
in
this
Country
?
Let
the
Inhabitants
pray
heartily
▪
for
Peace
then
;
and
all
little
enough
to
keep
them
quiet
.
But
to
see
my
mistake
now
.
I
thought
the
Women
had
dyed
,
when
they
came
to
be
Gouvernantes
,
and
that
for
the
punishment
of
a
wicked
World
,
the
Gouvernantes
had
been
Immortal
.
But
I
am
now
better
inform'd
,
and
very
glad
truly
to
meet
with
a
Person
I
have
heard
so
much
talk
of
.
For
with
us
,
Who
but
Madam
the
Gouvernante
,
at
every
turn
?
Do
ye
see
that
Mumping
Hag
,
cryes
One
?
Come
here
ye
Damn'd
Iade
cryes
Another
.
That
Old
Bawd
,
sayes
a
Third
,
has
forgotten
,
I
warrant
ye
,
that
ever
she
was
a
Whore
,
and
now
see
if
we
do
not
remember
ye
:
You
do
so
,
and
I
'm
in
your
debt
for
your
Remembrance
,
The
Great
Devil
be
your
Pay-masters
,
ye
Son
of
a
Whore
,
you
;
Are
there
no
more
Gouvernantes
than
my self
?
Sure
there
are
,
and
ye
may
have
your
Choice
,
without
Affronting
me
.
Well
,
Well
,
(
said
I
)
have
a
little
Patience
,
and
at
my
Return
,
I
'l
try
if
I
can
put
things
in
better
Order
.
But
in
the
mean
time
,
what
business
have
you
here
?
her
Reverence
upon
this
was
a
little
Qualified
,
and
told
me
,
that
she
had
now
been
eight
hundred
years
in
Hell
,
upon
a
Design
to
erect
an
Order
of
the
Gouvernantes
;
but
the
right
Worshipful
the
Devil-Commissioners
,
are
not
as
yet
come
to
any
Re●olution
upon
the
Point
.
For
say
they
,
if
your
Gouvernantes
should
come
once
to
settle
here
,
there
would
need
no
other
Tormentors
,
and
we
should
be
but
so
many
Iacks
out
of
Office
.
And
besides
,
we
should
be
perpetually
at
Daggers
drawing
about
the
Brands
and
Candles-Ends
which
they
would
still
be
filching
,
and
laying
out
of
the
way
;
and
for
us
to
have
our
Fewel
to
seek
,
would
be
very
Inconvenient
.
I
have
been
in
Purgatory
too
(
she
said
)
u●on
the
same
Project
,
but
there
so
soon
as
ever
they
set
eye
on
me
,
all
the
Souls
cry'd
out
Unanimously
,
Libera
Nos
,
&c.
As
for
Heaven
That
's
no
place
for
Quarrels
,
Slanders
,
Disquiets
,
Heart-burnings
,
and
consequently
None
for
Me.
The
Dea●
〈◊〉
none
of
my
Friends
neither
,
〈…〉
grumble
,
and
bid
me
let
〈…〉
as
they
do
me
;
and
beg
〈…〉
world
again
if
I
please
,
and
there
(
they
tell
me
)
I
may
play
the
Gouvernante
in
saecula
saeculorum
.
But
truly
I
had
rather
be
here
at
my
Ease
,
than
spend
my
Life
crumpling
,
and
brooding
over
a
Carpet
at
a
bed-side
,
like
a
thing
of
Clouts
,
to
secure
the
Poultry
of
the
Family
from
strange
Cocks
,
which
would
now
and
then
have
a
Brush
with
a
Virgin
Pullet
,
but
for
the
Care
of
the
Gouvernantes
.
And
yet
't
is
she
,
good
woman
,
beares
all
the
blame
,
in
Case
of
any
Miscarriage
:
The
Gouvernante
was
presently
of
the
Plot
,
she
had
a
Feeling
in
the
Cause
,
a
Finger
in
the
Pye
.
And
't
is
she
in
fine
that
must
answer
for
all
.
Let
but
a
Sock
,
and
old
Handkercher
,
the
Greasy
Lining
of
a
Masque
,
or
any
such
Frippery
piece
of
business
be
missing
;
Ask
the
Gouvernante
for
This
,
or
for
That
.
And
in
short
,
they
take
us
certainly
for
so
many
Storks
,
and
Ducks
,
to
gather
up
〈◊〉
the
filth
about
the
house
.
The
〈…〉
look
upon
us
as
Spyes
and
〈…〉
Cousin
forsooth
,
and
'
tother
's
〈…〉
not
come
to
the
house
,
for
〈…〉
●ouvernante
.
And
indeed
I
have
made
many
of
them
Cross
themselves
,
that
took
me
for
a
Ghost
.
Our
Masters
they
curse
us
too
,
for
Embroyling
the
Family
.
So
that
I
have
rather
Chosen
to
take
up
here
,
betwixt
the
Dead
and
the
Living
,
than
to
return
again
to
my
Charge
of
a
Doüegna
,
the
very
sound
of
the
Name
being
more
Terrible
than
a
Gibbet
.
As
appears
by
one
that
was
lately
Travailing
from
Madrid
,
to
Vailladolid
,
and
asking
where
he
might
lodge
that
night
.
Answer
was
made
at
a
small
Village
call'd
Doüegnas
.
But
is
there
no
other
place
(
quoth
he
)
within
some
reasonable
Distance
,
either
short
or
beyond
it
.
They
told
him
no
,
unless
it
were
at
a
Gallows
.
That
shall
be
my
Quarter
then
(
quoth
he
)
for
a
thousand
Gibbets
are
not
so
bad
to
me
as
one
Doüegnas
.
Now
ye
see
how
we
are
abus'd
(
quoth
the
Gouvernante
)
I
hope
you
'l
do
us
some
Right
,
when
it
lyes
in
your
Power
.
She
would
have
talk't
me
to
Death
,
if
I
had
not
given
her
the
slip
upon
the
removing
of
her
Spectacles
;
but
I
could
not
scape
so
neither
,
for
looking
about
me
for
a
Guide
to
carry
me
home
again
,
I
was
arrested
by
one
of
the
Dead
;
a
good
proper
Fellow
,
only
he
had
a
pair
of
Rams-horns
on
his
head
,
and
I
was
about
to
salute
him
for
Aries
in
the
Zodiac
:
but
when
I
saw
him
plant
himself
,
just
before
me
,
with
his
best
Leg
forward
,
stretching
out
his
Arms
,
Clutching
his
Fists
,
and
looking
as
Soure
as
if
He
would
have
Eaten
me
without
Mustard
;
Doubtless
,
(
said
I
)
the
Devil
is
Dead
and
This
is
He.
No
,
No
,
cry'd
a
by-stander
,
This
is
a
man
:
Why
then
(
sayd
I
)
he
's
Drunk
,
I
perceive
,
and
Quarrelsome
in
his
Ale
,
for
here
's
no
body
has
touched
him
.
With
that
as
he
was
just
ready
to
fall
on
,
I
stood
to
my
Guard
,
and
we
were
arm'd
at
all
points
alike
,
only
he
had
the
Ods
of
the
Head-piece
.
Now
,
Sirrah
,
(
says
he
)
have
at
ye
,
slave
that
you
are
to
make
a
Trade
of
Defaming
Persons
of
Honour
.
By
the
Death
that
Commands
here
,
I
'l
ha'
my
Revenge
,
and
turn
your
skin
over
your
Ears
:
This
Insolent
Language
stir'd
my
Choler
I
confess
,
and
so
I
call'd
to
him
;
Come
,
come
on
,
Sirrah
;
A
little
neerer
yet
,
and
if
ye
have
a
mind
to
be
twice
kill'd
,
I
'l
do
your
business
;
who
the
Devil
brought
this
Cornuto
hither
to
trouble
me
?
The
word
was
no
sooner
out
,
but
we
were
immediately
at
it
,
Tooth
and
Nail
,
and
if
his
Horns
had
not
been
flatted
to
his
head
,
I
might
have
had
the
worst
on
't
.
But
the
whole
Ring
presently
came
in
to
part
us
,
and
did
me
a
singular
kindness
in
't
,
for
my
Adversary
had
a
Fork
,
and
I
had
none
.
As
they
were
staving
and
Tayling
,
you
might
have
had
more
manners
(
cry'd
one
)
than
to
give
such
Language
to
your
Betters
,
and
to
call
Don
Diego
Moreno
,
Cuckold
.
And
is
this
That
Diego
Moreno
then
,
said
I
,
?
Rascal
that
he
is
to
charge
me
with
abusing
persons
of
Honour
.
A
Scoundrel
(
said
I
)
that
't
is
a
shame
for
Death
to
be
seen
in
's
Company
,
and
was
never
fit
for
any
thing
in
his
whole
life
,
but
to
furnish
matter
for
a
Farce
.
And
that
's
my
Grievance
,
Gentlemen
,
(
quoth
Don
Diego
)
for
which
with
your
Leave
he
shall
give
me
satisfaction
.
I
do
not
stand
upon
the
matter
of
being
a
Cuckold
,
for
there
's
many
a
Brave
fellow
lives
in
Cuckolds-Row
.
But
why
does
he
not
name
others
,
as
well
as
me
?
As
if
the
Horn
grew
upon
no
bodies
head
but
mine
:
I
'm
sure
there
are
Others
that
a
Thousand
times
better
deserve
it
.
I
hope
,
he
cannot
say
that
ever
I
gor'd
any
of
my
Superiors
;
or
that
my
being
Cornuted
has
rais'd
the
Price
of
Post-horns
,
Lanthorns
,
or
Pocket-Ink-horns
.
Are
not
shooing-horns
,
and
Knife-handles
as
cheap
now
as
ever
?
Why
must
I
walk
the
stage
then
more
than
my
Neighbours
?
Beyond
question
there
never
liv'd
a
more
peaceable
Wretch
upon
the
face
of
the
Earth
,
all
things
consider'd
,
than
my self
.
Never
was
man
freer
from
Ielousy
,
or
more
careful
to
step
aside
at
the
Time
of
Visit
:
for
I
was
ever
against
the
spoiling
of
sport
,
when
I
could
make
None
my self
.
I
confess
I
was
not
so
charitable
to
the
poor
as
I
might
have
been
;
The
truth
of
't
is
,
I
watcht
them
as
a
Cat
would
do
a
Mouse
,
for
I
did
not
love
them
.
But
then
in
Requital
,
I
could
have
out-snorted
the
seven
sleepers
,
when
any
of
the
better
sort
came
to
have
a
word
in
private
with
my
Wife
.
The
short
on
't
is
,
We
agreed
blessedly
well
together
,
she
and
I
;
for
I
did
whatever
she
would
have
me
:
and
she
would
say
a
Thousand
and
a
Thousand
times
:
Long
live
my
poor
Diego
,
the
best
Condition'd
,
the
most
complaisant
Husband
in
the
World
;
whatever
I
do
is
well
done
,
and
he
never
so
much
as
opens
his
mouth
Good
or
Bad.
But
by
her
leave
that
was
little
to
my
Credit
,
and
the
Jade
when
she
said
it
,
was
beside
the
Cushion
.
For
many
and
many
a
Time
have
I
said
,
This
is
Well
,
and
That
's
Ill.
When
there
came
any
Poets
to
our
house
,
Fidlers
or
Morrice-Dancers
,
I
would
say
,
This
is
not
well
.
But
when
the
Rich
Merchants
came
;
Oh
very
good
,
would
I
say
,
This
is
as
well
,
as
well
can
be
.
Sometime
we
had
the
hap
to
be
visited
by
some
Pennyless
Courtier
,
or
Low-Country
Officer
perchance
;
then
should
I
take
her
aside
,
and
Rattle
her
to
some
Tune
:
Sweetheart
,
would
I
say
,
Pray'e
what
ha'
we
to
do
with
these
Frippery
Fellows
,
and
Damme
Boyes
,
shake
them
off
,
I
'd
advise
ye
,
and
take
this
for
a
warning
.
But
when
any
came
that
had
to
do
with
the
Mint
,
or
Chequer
,
and
spent
freely
,
(
for
lightly
come
,
lightly
go
)
I
marry
,
my
Dear
(
quoth
I
)
there
's
nothing
to
be
lost
by
keeping
such
Company
.
And
what
hurt
in
all
this
now
?
Nay
,
on
the
Contrary
,
my
poor
Wife
enjoy'd
her self
happily
under
the
Protection
of
my
shadow
,
and
being
a
Femme
Couverte
,
not
an
Officer
durst
come
neer
her
.
Why
should
then
this
Buffon
of
a
Poetaster
make
me
still
the
Ridiculous
Entertainment
of
all
his
Interludes
and
Farces
,
and
the
Fool
in
the
Play
?
By
your
Favour
(
quoth
I
)
we
are
not
yet
upon
even
terms
;
And
before
we
part
,
you
shall
know
what
't
is
to
provoke
a
Poet.
If
thou
wert
but
now
alive
,
I
'd
write
the
to
Death
,
as
Archilocus
did
Lycambes
.
And
I
'm
resolv'd
to
put
the
History
of
thy
life
in
a
Satyre
,
as
sharp
as
Vinegar
,
and
give
it
the
Name
of
The
Life
and
Death
of
Don
Diego
Moreno
;
It
shall
go
hard
,
(
quoth
he
)
but
I
'l
prevent
That
,
and
so
We
fell
to
't
again
,
Hand
and
Foot
,
till
at
length
the
very
Fancy
of
a
Scuffle
wak'd
me
,
and
I
found
my self
as
weary
,
as
if
it
had
been
a
Real
Combat
.
I
began
then
to
reflect
upon
the
Particulars
of
my
Dream
,
and
to
Consider
what
Advantage
I
might
draw
from
it
:
for
the
Dead
are
past
fooling
,
and
Those
are
the
soundest
Counsels
,
which
we
receive
from
such
as
advise
us
without
either
Passion
or
Interest
.
The
end
of
the
second
Vision
.
THE
THIRD
VISION
OF
THE
LAST
JUDGMENT
.
HOmer
makes
Iupiter
the
Author
,
or
Inspirer
of
Dreams
;
especially
the
Dreams
of
Princes
and
Governours
;
and
if
the
matter
of
them
be
pious
and
important
.
And
it
is
likewise
the
Judgment
of
the
Learned
Propertius
,
that
Good
Dreams
come
from
above
,
have
their
weight
,
and
ought
not
to
be
slighted
,
And
truly
I
am
much
of
his
mind
,
in
the
Case
of
a
Dream
I
had
the
other
Night
.
As
I
was
reading
a
Discourse
touching
the
End
of
the
World
,
I
fell
asleep
over
the
Book
,
and
Dreamt
of
The
Last
Iudgment
.
(
A
thing
which
in
the
House
of
a
Poet
is
scarce
admitted
so
much
as
in
a
Dream
.
)
This
Phansie
minded
me
of
a
Passage
in
Claudian
;
That
all
Creatures
dream
at
Night
of
what
they
have
heard
and
seen
in
the
Day
:
as
the
Hound
dreams
of
Hunting
the
Hare
.
Methought
I
saw
a
very
handsome
Youth
towring
in
the
Air
,
and
sounding
of
a
Trumpet
;
but
the
forcing
of
his
Breath
did
indeed
take
off
much
of
his
Beauty
.
The
very
Marbles
,
I
perceived
,
and
the
Dead
obey'd
his
Call
;
for
in
the
same
moment
,
the
Earth
began
to
open
,
and
set
the
Bones
at
Liberty
,
to
seek
their
Fellows
.
The
First
that
appear'd
,
were
Sword-men
;
As
Generals
of
Armies
,
Captains
,
Lieutenants
▪
Common-Souldiers
;
who
supposing
that
it
had
sounded
a
Charge
,
came
out
of
their
Graves
,
methought
,
with
the
same
Briskness
and
Resolution
,
as
if
they
had
been
going
to
an
Assault
or
a
Combat
.
The
Misers
put
their
Heads
out
,
all
Pale
and
Trembling
,
for
fear
of
a
Plunder
.
The
Cavaliers
and
Good
Fellows
believed
they
had
been
going
to
a
Horse-Race
,
or
a
Hunting-match
.
And
in
fine
,
though
they
all
heard
the
Trumpet
,
there
was
not
any
Creature
knew
the
meaning
of
it
(
for
I
could
read
their
Thoughts
by
their
Looks
and
Gestures
.
)
After
This
,
there
appear'd
a
great
many
Souls
;
whereof
some
came
up
to
their
Bodies
,
though
with
much
Difficulty
and
Horrour
:
Others
stood
wondring
at
a
Distance
,
not
daring
to
come
near
so
hideous
and
frightful
a
Spectacle
.
This
wanted
an
Arm
,
That
an
Eye
,
T'other
a
Head
.
Upon
the
whole
,
though
I
could
not
but
smile
at
the
Prospect
of
so
strange
a
variety
of
Figures
;
yet
was
it
not
without
just
matter
of
Admiration
at
the
All-powerful
Providence
,
to
see
Order
drawn
out
of
Confusion
,
and
every
part
restor'd
to
the
right
Owner
.
I
Dreamt
my self
then
in
a
Church-Yard
;
and
there
,
methought
,
divers
that
were
loth
to
appear
,
were
changing
of
Heads
;
and
an
Attorney
would
have
Demurrer
upon
Pretence
that
He
had
got
a
Soul
was
none
of
his
Own
,
and
that
his
Body
and
Soul
were
not
fellows
.
At
length
,
when
the
whole
Congregation
came
to
understand
that
This
was
the
Day
of
Iudgment
,
it
was
worth
the
while
,
to
observe
what
shifting
and
shuffling
there
was
among
the
Wicked
.
The
Epicure
and
Whore-master
would
not
own
his
Eyes
,
nor
the
Slanderer
his
Tongue
,
because
they
'd
be
sure
to
appear
in
Evidence
against
them
.
The
Pick-Pockets
ran
away
as
hard
as
they
could
drive
from
their
own
Fingers
.
There
was
one
that
had
been
Embalm'd
in
Egypt
,
and
staying
for
his
Tripes
,
an
Old
Usurer
askt
him
,
if
the
Bags
were
to
rise
with
the
Bodies
?
I
could
have
laught
at
this
Question
,
but
I
was
presently
taken
up
with
a
Crowd
of
Cut-purses
,
running
full
speed
from
their
own
Ears
(
that
were
offer'd
them
again
)
for
fear
of
the
sad
Stories
they
expected
to
hear
.
I
saw
all
this
from
a
Convenient
Standing
;
and
in
the
Instant
,
There
was
an
Outcry
at
my
Feet
,
Withdraw
,
Withdraw
.
The
word
was
no
sooner
given
,
but
down
I
came
,
and
immediately
a
great
many
Handsom
Ladies
put
forth
their
Heads
,
and
call'd
me
Clown
,
for
not
paying
them
that
Respect
and
Ceremony
which
belong'd
to
their
Quality
(
now
you
must
know
that
the
Women
stand
upon
their
Pantoffles
,
even
in
H●ll
it self
:
)
They
seem'd
at
first
very
Gay
and
Frolick
;
and
truly
,
well
enough
pleas'd
to
be
seen
Naked
,
for
they
were
clea●-skin'd
and
well-made
.
But
when
they
came
to
understand
that
this
was
the
great
Day
of
Accompt
;
Their
Consciences
took
Check
,
and
all
the
Jollity
was
dasht
in
a
moment
:
Whereupon
they
took
to
the
Valley
,
miserably
Listless
and
o●t
of
Humour
:
There
was
One
among
the
rest
,
that
had
had
seven
Husbands
,
and
promis'd
every
one
of
them
never
to
marry
again
,
for
she
could
never
love
any
thing
else
she
was
sure
:
This
Lady
was
casting
about
for
Fetches
,
and
Excuses
,
and
what
answer
she
should
make
to
that
Point
.
Another
that
had
been
as
Common
as
Ratcliff
Highway
,
would
neither
Lead
nor
Drive
,
and
stood
Huming
and
Hawing
a
good
while
,
pretending
she
had
forgot
her
Night-Geer
,
and
such
Fooleries
;
but
spight
of
her
heart
,
she
was
brought
at
last
within
sight
of
the
Throne
;
where
she
found
a
world
of
her
old
Acquaintance
that
she
had
carry'd
part
of
their
way
to
Hell
;
who
had
no
sooner
set
Eye
on
her
,
but
they
fell
a
Pointing
and
Hooting
,
that
she
took
up
her
Heels
and
Herded
her self
in
a
Troop
of
Serjeants
.
After
This
,
I
saw
a
many
People
driving
a
Physician
along
the
bank
of
a
River
,
and
these
were
only
such
as
He
had
unnecessarily
dispatcht
before
their
time
.
They
follow'd
him
with
Cries
of
,
Iustice
,
Iustice
,
and
forc'd
him
on
toward
the
Iudgment-Seat
,
where
they
arriv'd
in
the
end
with
much
ado
.
While
This
pass'd
,
I
heard
,
methought
,
upon
my
left-hand
a
Paddling
in
the
Water
,
as
if
one
had
been
Swimming
:
and
what
should
this
be
,
but
a
Iudge
in
the
middle
of
a
River
washing
and
rinsing
his
hands
,
over
and
over
.
I
askt
him
the
meaning
of
it
;
and
he
told
me
,
that
in
his
life
time
he
had
been
often
dawb'd
in
the
Fist
,
to
make
business
slip
the
better
,
and
he
would
willingly
get
out
the
Grease
before
he
came
to
hold
up
his
hand
at
the
Bar.
There
follow'd
next
a
Multitude
of
Vintners
and
Taylers
,
under
the
Guard
of
a
Legion
of
Devils
,
arm'd
with
Rods
,
Whips
,
Cudgels
,
and
other
Instruments
of
Correction
:
and
These
Counterfeited
themselves
Deaf
,
and
were
very
loth
to
leave
their
Graves
,
for
fear
of
a
worse
lodging
.
As
they
were
passing
on
,
up
started
a
little
Lawyer
and
askt
whither
they
were
going
;
They
made
answer
,
that
they
were
going
to
give
an
accompt
of
their
Works
.
With
that
the
Lawyer
threw
himself
flat
upon
his
Belly
in
his
hole
again
:
if
I
am
to
go
downward
at
last
(
says
he
)
I
am
thus
much
onward
of
my
way
.
The
Vintner
sweat
as
he
walkt
,
'till
one
drop
follow'd
another
;
That
's
well
done
cry'd
a
Devil
at
's
Elbow
,
to
purge
out
thy
water
,
that
we
may
have
none
in
our
Wine
.
There
was
a
Tayler
wrapt
up
in
Sarcenets
,
crook-finger'd
and
Baker-leg'd
,
spake
not
one
word
all
the
way
he
went
,
but
Alas
!
Alas
!
how
can
any
man
be
a
Thief
that
dies
for
want
of
Bread
?
But
his
Companions
gave
him
a
Rebuke
for
Discrediting
his
Trade
.
The
next
that
appeared
were
a
Band
of
High-way-men
,
following
upon
the
Heels
one
of
another
,
in
great
Distrust
and
Jealousie
of
Thieves
among
themselves
.
These
were
fetcht
up
by
a
Party
of
Devils
in
the
turning
of
a
Hand
and
lodg'd
with
the
Taylers
;
for
(
said
one
of
the
Company
)
your
High-way-man
is
but
a
Wild
Tayler
.
They
were
a
little
Quarrelsome
at
first
,
but
in
the
Conclusion
,
they
went
down
into
the
Vally
,
and
Kennell'd
quietly
together
.
After
these
came
Folly
with
her
Gang
of
Poets
,
Fidlers
,
Lovers
,
and
Fencers
:
the
People
of
all
the
World
,
that
Dream
the
least
of
a
Day
of
Reckoning
;
These
were
disposed
of
among
the
Hangmen
,
Iews
,
Scribes
,
and
Philosophers
.
There
were
also
a
great
many
Sollicitors
wondring
among
themselves
,
that
they
should
have
so
much
Conscience
when
they
were
Dead
,
and
none
at
all
Living
.
In
fine
,
the
Word
was
given
,
Silence
.
The
Throne
being
erected
,
and
the
great
Day
come
:
a
Day
of
Comfort
to
the
Good
,
and
of
Terror
to
the
Wicked
.
The
Sun
and
the
Stars
waited
on
the
Foot-stool
;
the
Wind
was
still
;
the
Water
quiet
;
the
Earth
in
suspense
and
Anguish
for
fear
of
her
Children
:
And
in
brief
,
the
whole
Creation
was
in
Anxiety
and
Disorder
.
The
Righteous
they
were
employ'd
in
Prayers
and
Thanksgivings
;
and
the
Ungodly
in
framing
of
Shifts
and
Evasions
,
to
Extenuate
their
Pains
.
The
Guardian
Angels
were
at
hand
,
on
the
one
side
to
acquit
themselves
of
their
Duties
and
Commissions
.
And
on
the
other
side
,
were
the
Devils
hunting
for
more
matters
of
Aggravation
and
Charge
against
Offenders
.
The
Ten
Commandments
had
the
Guard
of
a
Narrow-Gate
,
which
was
so
strait
,
that
the
most
mortify'd
body
could
not
pass
it
,
without
leaving
a
good
part
of
his
skin
behind
him
.
On
one
Hand
,
there
were
in
Multitudes
;
Disgraces
,
Misfortunes
,
Plagues
,
Griefs
,
and
Troubles
;
All
in
a
Clamour
against
the
Physicians
.
The
Plague
Confest
indeed
,
that
she
had
struck
many
;
but
't
was
the
Doctor
did
their
business
.
Melancholy
and
Disgrace
said
the
like
;
and
Misfortunes
of
all
sorts
made
open
Protestation
,
that
they
never
brought
any
man
to
his
Grave
,
without
the
Help
and
Advice
of
a
Doctor
.
So
that
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Faculty
were
call'd
to
Accompt
for
those
they
had
kill'd
.
They
took
their
Places
upon
a
Scaffold
,
with
Pen
,
Ink
,
and
Paper
about
them
;
and
still
as
the
Dead
were
call'd
,
some
or
other
of
them
answered
to
the
Name
,
and
declar●d
the
Year
and
Day
when
such
a
P●tient
pass'd
th●ough
his
Hand
.
They
began
the
Inquiry
at
Adam
,
who
,
methought
,
was
severely
chidden
about
an
Apple
.
Alas
!
(
cry'd
Iudas
that
was
by
)
if
that
were
such
a
fault
,
what
will
become
of
me
that
sold
and
betray'd
my
Lord
and
Master
?
Next
came
the
Patriarchs
,
and
then
the
Apostles
,
who
took
their
Places
by
St.
Peter
.
It
was
worth
the
Noting
,
that
at
this
Day
there
was
no
Distinction
between
Kings
and
Beggars
,
before
the
Iudgment-Seat
.
Herod
and
Pilate
,
so
soon
as
they
put
out
their
Heads
,
found
it
was
like
to
go
hard
with
Them
.
My
Judgment
is
Just
(
quoth
Pilate
.
)
Alack
!
(
cry'd
Herod
)
What
am
I
to
trust
to
?
Heaven
is
no
place
for
me
,
and
in
Limbo
I
should
fall
among
the
Innocents
I
have
murder'd
;
so
that
without
more
ado
I
must
e'en
take
up
my
Lodging
in
Hell
:
The
Common
Receptacle
of
notorious
Malefactors
.
There
came
in
immediately
upon
this
,
a
kind
of
a
sowre
rough-hewn
fellow
;
Look
ye
(
says
he
)
stretching
out
his
Arm
,
here
are
my
Letters
.
The
Company
wonder'd
at
the
Humour
,
and
askt
the
Porter
what
he
was
;
which
he
himself
over-hearing
,
I
am
(
quoth
he
)
a
Master
of
the
Noble
Science
of
Defence
:
and
plucking
out
several
seal'd
Parchments
,
These
(
said
he
)
are
the
Attestations
of
my
Exploits
.
At
which
word
,
all
his
Testimonials
fell
out
of
his
Hand
,
and
a
Couple
of
Devils
would
fain
have
whipt
them
up
,
to
have
brought
them
in
Evidence
against
him
at
his
Tryal
;
but
the
Fencer
was
too
Nimble
for
Them
,
and
took
them
Up
himself
.
At
which
time
,
an
Angel
offer'd
him
his
Hand
to
help
him
in
;
but
He
,
for
fear
of
an
Attaque
,
leapt
a
step
backward
,
and
with
great
agility
,
alonging
withall
,
Now
(
says
he
)
if
ye
think
fit
,
I
'l
give
ye
a
Tast
of
my
skill
.
The
Company
fell
a
laughing
,
and
This
Sentence
was
past
upon
him
;
That
since
by
his
Rules
of
Art
He
had
occasioned
so
many
Duels
and
Murders
,
He
should
Himself
go
to
the
Devil
by
a
Perpendicular
Line
.
He
pleaded
for
Himself
,
that
He
was
no
Mathematician
,
and
knew
no
such
Line
:
but
while
the
word
was
in
his
Mouth
a
Devil
came
up
to
him
,
gave
him
a
turn
and
a
half
,
and
down
he
Tumbled
.
After
Him
,
came
the
Treasurers
,
and
with
such
a
Cry
following
them
,
for
what
they
had
Cheated
and
Stoln
;
that
some
said
,
the
Thieves
were
coming
;
Others
said
No
;
And
the
Company
was
divided
upon
't
;
They
were
much
troubled
at
the
word
,
Thieves
,
and
desired
the
Benefit
of
Counsel
to
plead
their
Cause
.
And
very
good
Reason
(
said
one
of
the
Devils
)
Here
's
a
Discarded
Apostle
that
has
Executed
both
Offices
,
Let
them
take
him
,
Where
's
Iudas
?
When
the
Treasurers
heard
that
,
They
turn'd
aside
,
and
by
chance
,
spy'd
in
a
Devil's
Hand
,
a
Huge
Roll
of
Accusations
ready
drawn
into
a
formal
Charge
against
them
.
With
That
,
One
of
the
bold●st
among
them
:
Away
,
Away
(
cry'd
he
)
with
these
Informations
;
Wee
'l
rather
come
in
and
Compound
,
though
i●
were
for
Ten
or
Twenty
Thousand
years
in
Purgatory
.
Ha!
Ha!
(
quoth
the
Devil
,
a
cunning
Snap
that
drew
up
the
Charge
)
If
ye
are
upon
those
Terms
,
ye
are
hard
put
to
't
.
Whereupon
the
Treasurers
,
being
brought
to
a
forc't
Put
,
were
e'en
glad
to
make
the
best
of
a
bad
bargain
,
and
follow
the
Fencer
▪
These
were
no
sooner
gone
,
but
in
came
an
unlucky
Pastry-man
;
They
askt
him
,
if
he
would
be
try'd
.
That
's
e'en
as
't
hitts
;
(
said
he
)
At
that
Word
,
the
Devil
that
manag'd
the
Cause
against
him
,
prest
his
Charge
,
and
laid
it
Home
to
him
,
that
He
had
put
off
Catts
for
Hares
;
and
filled
his
Pyes
,
with
Bones
instead
of
Flesh
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
that
he
had
sold
Horse-flesh
,
Dogs
and
Foxes
for
Beef
and
Mutton
.
Upon
the
Issue
,
it
was
prov'd
against
him
,
that
Noah
never
had
so
many
Animals
in
his
Ark
as
this
poor
fellow
had
put
in
his
Pyes
,
(
for
we
read
of
no
Rats
and
Mice
there
)
so
that
he
e'en
gave
up
his
Cause
,
and
went
away
to
see
if
his
Oven
were
hot
.
Next
,
came
the
Philosophers
with
their
Syllogisms
,
and
it
was
no
ill
Entertainment
,
to
hear
them
Chop
Logic
,
and
put
all
their
Expostulations
,
in
Mood
and
Figure
.
But
the
Pleasantest
people
in
the
World
,
were
the
Poets
;
who
insisted
upon
it
,
that
they
were
to
be
try'd
by
Iupiter
:
And
to
the
Charge
of
Worshiping
false
Gods
,
their
Answer
was
,
that
through
Them
they
worship't
the
True
.
One
,
and
were
rather
mistaken
in
the
Name
,
than
in
the
Worship
.
Virgil
had
much
to
say
for
himself
,
for
his
Sicelides
Musae
;
But
Orpheus
interrupted
him
;
who
being
the
Father
of
the
Poets
,
desir'd
to
be
heard
for
them
all
.
What
,
He
?
(
cry'd
one
of
the
Devils
)
Yes
;
for
teaching
that
Boyes
were
better
Bed-fellows
than
Wenches
;
But
the
Women
had
comb'd
his
Coxcomb
for
him
,
if
they
could
have
Catch't
him
.
Away
with
him
to
Hell
Once
again
then
they
cry'd
;
and
let
him
get
out
now
if
He
can
.
So
they
all
fil'd
off
,
and
Orpheus
was
their
Guide
,
because
he
had
been
there
once
before
.
So
soon
as
the
Poets
were
gone
,
there
knockt
at
the
Gate
a
Rich
Penurious
Chuffe
;
but
't
was
told
him
,
that
the
Ten
Commandments
kept
it
,
and
that
he
had
not
kept
them
.
It
is
Impossible
(
quoth
he
)
under
favour
,
to
prove
that
ever
I
broke
any
One
of
them
.
And
so
He
went
to
Justify
himself
from
Point
to
Point
:
He
had
done
This
and
That
;
and
He
had
never
done
That
,
nor
T'other
;
but
in
the
End
,
he
was
deliver'd
over
to
be
●ewarded
according
to
his
Works
.
And
then
came
on
,
a
Company
of
House-breakers
,
and
Robbers
:
so
Dextrous
,
some
of
them
▪
that
they
sav'd
themselves
from
the
very
Ladder
.
The
Scriveners
,
and
Atturneys
,
observing
That
;
Ah!
thought
they
;
if
we
could
but
pass
for
Thieves
now
!
And
yet
they
set
a
Face
good
enough
upon
the
Business
too
.
And
then
Iudas
,
and
Mahomet
,
taking
Notice
of
their
Confidence
,
began
to
hope
well
of
Themselves
;
for
(
said
they
)
We
are
well
enough
,
if
any
of
these
fellows
come
off
,
whereupon
they
advanc'd
boldly
,
with
a
Resolution
to
take
their
Tryal
:
Which
set
the
Devils
all
a
laughing
.
The
Guardian-Angels
of
the
Scriveners
,
and
Atturneys
,
mov'd
that
the
Evangelists
might
be
of
their
Counsel
;
which
the
Devils
oppos'd
;
for
(
said
they
)
we
shall
insist
only
upon
matter
of
Fact
,
and
leave
them
without
any
possibility
of
Reply
,
or
Excuse
.
We
might
indeed
content
our selves
with
the
bare
proof
of
what
they
are
;
for
't
is
Crime
enough
that
they
are
Scriveners
,
and
Atturneys
.
With
That
,
the
Scriveners
deny'd
their
Trade
,
alleging
that
they
were
Secretaries
;
and
the
Atturneys
call'd
themselves
Sollicitors
.
All
was
said
,
in
Effect
,
that
the
Case
would
bear
;
but
the
best
part
of
their
Plea
was
Church-membership
.
And
in
fine
,
after
several
Replications
,
and
Rejoynders
,
they
were
all
sent
to
Old
Nick
;
save
only
Two
or
Three
,
that
found
Mercy
.
Well
(
cry'd
one
of
the
Scriveners
)
This
't
is
to
keep
ill
Company
.
The
Devils
called
out
then
,
to
clear
the
Bar
,
and
said
they
should
have
occasion
for
the
Scriveners
Themselves
,
to
enter
Protestations
in
the
Quality
of
Publick
Notaries
,
against
Lawless
and
Disorderly
people
:
but
the
poor
Wretches
it
seems
,
could
not
hear
on
that
Ear.
To
say
the
Truth
,
the
Christians
were
much
more
troublesome
,
than
the
Pagans
,
which
the
Devils
took
exceedingly
Ill
;
but
they
had
This
to
say
for
themselves
,
that
they
were
Christen'd
when
they
were
Children
,
so
that
't
was
none
of
their
Fault
,
and
their
Parents
must
answer
for
't
.
Iudas
,
and
Mahom●t
took
such
Courage
,
when
they
saw
two
or
three
of
the
Scriveners
,
and
Atturneys
sav'd
,
that
they
were
just
upon
the
point
of
Chal●●●ging
their
Clergy
;
but
they
were
prevented
by
the
Doctor
I
told
ye
of
,
who
was
set
first
to
the
Bar
,
in
Company
with
an
Apothecary
,
and
a
Barber
,
when
a
Certain
Devil
,
with
a
great
Bundle
of
Evidences
in
his
hand
,
inform'd
the
Court
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Dead
there
present
,
were
sent
thither
by
the
Doctor
then
at
the
Bar
,
in
Confederacy
with
his
Apothecary
,
and
Barber
,
to
whom
they
were
to
acknowledge
their
Obligation
for
that
fair
Assembly
.
An
Angel
then
interposing
for
the
Defendent
,
recommended
the
Apothecary
for
a
Charitable
Person
,
and
one
that
Physick'd
the
Poor
for
nothing
;
No
matter
for
that
,
(
cry'd
the
Devil
)
;
for
I
have
him
in
my
Books
,
and
am
able
to
prove
,
that
he
has
killed
more
people
with
two
little
Boxes
,
then
the
King
of
Spain
has
done
with
two
thousand
Barrels
of
Powder
,
in
the
Low-Country-Wars
.
All
his
Medicines
are
corrupted
,
and
his
Compositions
hold
a
perfect
Intelligence
with
the
Plague
:
He
has
utterly
unpeopled
a
Couple
of
his
Neighbour
Villages
,
in
a
matter
of
three
weeks
time
.
The
Doctor
,
he
let
fly
upon
the
'Pothecary
too
,
&
said
,
He
would
maintain
against
the
whole
College
,
that
his
Prescriptions
were
according
to
the
Dispensatory
:
And
if
an
Apothecary
would
play
the
Knave
,
or
the
Fool
,
and
put
in
This
,
for
That
,
he
could
not
help
it
.
So
that
without
any
more
words
,
The
'Pothecary
was
put
to
the
Summer-salt
,
and
the
Doctor
and
Barber
,
were
brought
off
,
at
the
Intercession
of
St.
Cosmus
,
and
St.
Damian
.
After
these
,
came
a
Dapper
Lawyer
,
with
a
Tongue
steep'd
in
Oyl
,
and
a
great
Master
of
his
Words
,
and
Actions
;
A
most
Exquisite
Flatterer
,
and
no
man
better
skill'd
in
the
Art
of
moving
the
Passions
than
himself
;
or
more
ready
at
bolting
a
Lucky
President
at
a
dead
lift
;
or
at
making
the
best
of
a
Bad
Cause
;
for
he
had
all
the
shifts
and
starting-holes
in
the
Law
at
his
Fingers
Ends
:
but
all
this
would
not
serve
,
for
the
Verdict
went
against
him
,
and
He
was
Order'd
to
pay
Costs
.
In
that
Instant
,
there
was
a
Discovery
made
of
a
fellow
that
hid
himself
in
a
Corner
,
and
look't
like
a
Spy
.
They
askt
him
,
what
he
was
?
He
made
Answer
,
An
Empirick
;
what
(
said
a
Divel
)
my
Old
Friend
Pontaeus
:
Alas
!
Alas
!
Thou
hadst
ten
thousand
time●
better
be
in
Covent-Garden
now
,
or
at
Charing-cross
;
for
upon
my
word
thou
't
have
nothing
to
do
here
,
unless
,
perhaps
,
for
an
Oyntment
for
a
Burn
,
or
so
;
And
so
Pontaeus
went
his
way
.
The
next
that
appear'd
,
were
a
Company
of
Vintn●rs
,
who
were
accused
for
Adulterating
,
and
mingling
Water
with
their
Wines
.
Their
Plea
was
,
that
in
Compensation
they
had
furnish't
the
Hospitals
with
Communion-Wine
that
was
Right
,
upon
Free
Cost
;
but
this
Excuse
signify'd
as
little
,
as
that
of
the
Taylors
there
present
,
who
suggested
,
that
they
had
Cloth'd
so
many
Friers
,
Gratis
;
and
so
they
were
dispatch't
away
together
.
After
These
,
follow'd
a
Number
of
Banquiers
,
that
had
turn'd
Bankrupt
,
to
cousen
their
Creditors
;
who
finding
there
several
of
their
old
Correspondents
,
that
they
had
reduced
to
a
Morsel
of
Bread
,
began
to
treat
of
Composition
:
but
One
of
the
Devils
presently
cry'd
out
,
All
the
Rest
have
had
enough
to
do
to
answer
for
themselves
;
but
these
people
are
to
Reckon
for
other
men's
scores
,
as
well
as
their
own
.
And
hereupon
,
they
were
forthwith
sent
away
to
Pluto
with
Lette●s
of
Exchange
;
but
as
it
happen'd
at
That
time
,
the
Devil
was
out
of
Cash
.
After
this
,
enter'd
a
Spanish
Cavalier
,
as
Vpright
,
as
Iustice
it self
.
He
was
a
matter
of
a
Quarter
of
an
hour
,
in
his
Legs
,
and
Reverences
,
to
the
Company
.
We
could
see
no
Head
He
had
,
for
t●e
Prodigious
starcht
Band
he
wore
,
that
st●od
staring
up
like
a
Turkey-Cock's
●ayl
,
and
Cover'd
it
.
In
fine
,
It
was
so
Phantastick
a
Figure
,
that
the
Porter
stood
staring
at
it
,
and
ask't
if
it
were
a
Man
,
or
No
?
It
is
a
Man
(
quoth
the
Spaniard
)
upon
the
Honour
of
a
Cavalier
,
and
his
name
is
Don
Pedro
Rhodomontadoso
,
&c.
He
was
so
long
a
telling
his
Name
,
and
Titles
,
that
one
of
the
Devils
burst
out
a
laughing
in
the
Middle
of
his
Pedigree
,
and
demanded
,
What
he
would
be
at
.
Glory
;
(
quoth
he
)
which
they
taking
in
the
worse
sense
,
for
Pride
,
sent
him
away
immediately
to
Lucifer
.
He
was
a
little
severe
upon
his
Guides
,
for
disordering
his
Mustachoes
,
but
they
help't
him
presently
to
a
pair
of
Beard-Irons
to
set
Him
Right
,
and
all
was
well
again
.
In
the
next
place
,
came
a
fellow
,
weeping
,
and
wayling
;
but
my
Masters
,
(
says
he
)
my
Cause
is
never
the
worse
for
my
Crying
,
for
if
I
would
stand
upon
my
Merits
,
I
could
tell
ye
that
I
have
kept
as
good
Company
,
and
had
as
much
to
do
with
the
Saints
,
as
another
Body
.
What
have
we
here
(
cry'd
one
)
Dioclesian
,
or
Nero
?
for
They
had
enough
to
do
with
the
Saints
,
though
't
were
but
to
persecute
Them
.
But
upon
the
Upshot
,
what
was
this
poor
Creature
,
but
a
small
Officer
,
that
swept
the
Church
,
and
dusted
the
Images
and
Pictures
.
His
Charge
,
was
for
stealing
the
Oyl
out
of
the
Lamps
,
and
leaving
all
in
the
Dark
;
pretending
that
the
Owles
,
and
Iack-daws
had
drunk
it
up
.
He
had
a
Trick
too
of
Clothing
himself
out
of
the
Church-habits
,
which
he
got
new-dy'd
;
And
of
Crumming
his
Porrege
with
Consecrated
Bread
,
that
he
stole
every
Sunday
.
What
He
said
for
Himself
,
I
know
not
:
but
he
had
his
Mittimus
,
and
took
the
Left-hand
way
at
parting
.
With
that
,
a
voice
was
heard
,
Make
way
there
,
Clear
the
Passage
:
And
this
was
for
a
Bevy
of
handsome
,
buxsome
Bona
Roba's
,
in
their
Caps
and
Feathers
,
that
came
dancing
,
laughing
,
and
singing
of
Ballads
and
Lampoons
,
and
as
merry
as
the
Day
was
long
.
But
They
quickly
chang'd
their
Note
,
for
so
soon
as
ever
they
saw
the
Hideous
Looks
of
the
Devils
,
they
fell
into
Violent
Fits
of
the
Mother
;
Beating
their
Breasts
,
and
Tearing
their
Hair
,
with
all
theHorror
and
Fury
Imaginable
.
There
was
an
Angel
offer'd
in
their
Favour
,
that
they
had
been
great
Frequenters
of
Our
Lady's
Chappel
.
Yes
,
yes
(
cry'd
a
Devil
)
less
of
her
Chappel
,
and
more
of
herVirtue
,
would
have
done
well
.
There
was
a
Notable
Whipster
,
among
the
rest
,
that
confest
,
the
Devil
had
reason
.
And
then
her
Tryal
came
on
,
for
making
a
Cloak
of
a
Sacrament
;
and
only
Marrying
,
that
she
might
play
the
Whore
with
Privilege
,
and
never
want
a
Father
for
her
Bastards
.
It
was
her
fortune
alone
to
be
condemn'd
;
and
going
along
,
well
,
she
cry'd
!
If
I
had
thought
,
't
would
have
come
to
This
,
I
should
ne're
have
troubled
my self
with
so
many
Masses
▪
And
now
,
after
long
waiting
,
came
Iudas
and
Mahomet
upon
the
Stage
,
and
to
them
Iack
of
Leyden
:
Up
comes
an
Officer
,
and
askt
which
of
the
Three
was
Iudas
?
I
am
He
,
quoth
Iack
of
Leyden
.
Nay
,
but
I
am
Iudas
cry'd
Mahomet
.
They
're
a
Couple
of
Lying
Rascals
,
says
Iudas
himself
,
for
I
am
the
man
:
only
the
Rogues
make
use
of
my
Name
to
save
their
Credit
.
'T
is
True
I
sold
my
Master
Once
,
and
the
World
has
ever
since
been
the
better
for
't
:
But
these
Villains
sell
Him
and
Themselves
too
,
every
hour
of
the
Day
,
and
there
follows
nothing
but
Misery
and
Confusion
.
So
they
were
all
Three
packt
away
to
their
Disciples
.
The
Angel
that
kept
the
Book
,
found
that
the
Serjeants
and
Remembrancers
were
to
come
on
next
;
whereupon
they
were
call'd
,
and
appear'd
:
but
the
Court
was
not
much
troubled
with
them
,
for
they
confest
Guilty
at
first
word
,
and
so
were
ty'd
up
without
any
more
ado
.
The
next
that
appear'd
was
an
Astrologer
,
loaden
with
Almanacks
,
Globes
,
Astrolabes
,
&c.
making
Proclamation
as
loud
as
He
could
bawl
,
that
there
must
needs
be
a
gross
Mistake
in
the
Reckoning
,
for
Saturn
had
not
finisht
his
Course
,
and
the
world
could
not
be
yet
at
an
End
.
One
of
the
Devil●
that
saw
how
he
came
provided
,
and
lookt
upon
him
as
his
own
already
:
A
Provident
Slave
(
quoth
he
)
I
warrant
him
,
to
bring
his
firing
along
with
him
.
But
This
I
must
needs
tell
ye
,
(
says
he
to
the
Mathematician
)
'T
is
a
strange
thing
,
ye
should
create
so
many
Heavens
in
your
Life
,
and
go
to
the
Devil
for
want
of
one
after
your
Death
.
Nay
,
for
Going
,
(
cry'd
the
Astrologer
)
ye
shall
excuse
me
;
but
if
you
'l
Carry
me
,
Well
and
Good
.
And
immediately
Order
was
given
to
carry
him
away
and
Pay
the
Porter
.
Hereupon
methought
,
the
Court
rose
,
the
Throne
Vanisht
;
the
Shadows
and
Darkness
withdrew
;
the
Air
sweeten'd
;
the
Earth
was
cover'd
with
Flowers
;
the
Heavens
Clear
:
And
then
I
waked
;
not
a
little
satisfy'd
to
find
that
after
all
this
,
I
was
still
in
my
Bed
,
and
among
the
Living
.
The
Use
I
made
of
my
Dream
was
this
:
I
betook
my self
presently
to
my
Prayers
,
with
a
firm
Resolution
of
changing
my
life
,
and
putting
my
Soul
into
such
a
Frame
of
Piety
and
Obedience
,
that
I
might
attend
the
coming
of
the
Great
Day
with
Peace
and
Comfort
.
The
end
of
the
third
Vision
.
THE
FOURTH
VISION
OF
LOVING
FOOLS
.
ABout
four
a
Clock
,
in
a
Cold
Frosty
Morning
,
when
it
was
much
better
being
in
a
Warm
Bed
,
with
a
good
Bedfellow
,
then
upon
a
Biere
in
the
Church-Yard
;
as
I
lay
advising
with
my
Pillow
,
Tumbling
and
Tossing
a
Thousand
Love-Toyes
in
my
Head
,
I
past
from
one
Phansy
to
another
,
till
at
last
,
I
f●ll
into
a
slumber
;
and
there
appear'd
the
Genius
of
Disabuse
;
Laying
before
me
all
the
Follies
,
and
Vanities
of
Love
;
and
supporting
her
Opinions
,
with
great
Authorities
,
and
Reasons
.
I
was
carry'd
then
(
methought
I
knew
not
how
)
into
a
fair
Medow
:
A
Medow
,
pleasant
and
agreeable
infinitely
beyond
the
very
Fictions
of
your
half-witted
Poets
,
with
all
their
far-fetch't
Gildings
,
and
Enamellings
(
for
a
Paper
of
Verses
is
worth
nothing
with
them
,
unless
they
force
Nature
for
't
,
and
Riffle
both
the
Indies
.
This
Delicious
Field
was
water'd
with
two
Riv'lets
;
the
One
,
Bitter
;
the
Other
,
Sweet
;
and
yet
they
mingled
their
streams
with
a
pretty
kind
of
Murmur
,
Equal
perhaps
to
the
best
Musick
in
the
World
.
The
use
of
these
Waters
was
,
(
as
I
observ'd
)
to
temper
the
Darts
of
Love
;
for
while
I
was
upon
the
Prospect
of
the
Place
,
I
saw
several
of
Cupid's
little
Officers
,
and
subjects
,
dipping
of
Arrows
there
,
for
their
Entertainment
,
and
Ease
.
Upon
this
,
I
Phansy'd
my self
in
one
of
the
Gardens
of
Cyprus
,
and
that
I
saw
the
very
Hive
,
where
the
Bee
liv'd
,
that
stung
my
Young
Master
,
and
occasion'd
that
Excellent
Ode
which
Anacreon
has
written
upon
the
Subject
.
The
next
thing
I
cast
my
Eye
upon
,
was
a
Palace
,
in
the
Mid'st
of
the
Medow
;
a
rare
piece
,
as
well
for
the
Structure
,
as
Design
.
The
Porches
,
were
of
the
Doric
Order
,
excellently
wrought
;
And
the
Pedestals
,
Bases
,
Columns
,
Cornishes
,
Capitals
,
Architraves
,
Freezes
(
and
in
short
the
whole
Front
of
the
Fabrick
)
was
Beautified
with
Imaginary
Trophies
,
and
Triumphs
of
Love
,
in
Half
Relief
,
which
as
they
were
intermixt
with
other
Phantastick
works
and
Conceits
,
carry'd
the
face
of
several
little
Histories
,
and
gave
a
great
Ornament
to
the
Building
.
Over
the
Porch
,
there
was
in
Golden
Letters
,
upon
black
Marble
,
This
Inscription
.
This
is
call'd
Fools
Paradise
,
From
the
Loving
Fools
that
dwell
in
't
,
Where
the
great
Fools
rule
the
Less
,
The
Rest
Obey
,
and
all
do
well
in
't
.
The
Finishing
,
and
Materials
were
pleasant
to
Admiration
.
The
Portal
,
spacious
;
the
Doors
,
always
open
,
and
the
House
free
to
all
Comers
,
which
were
very
many
;
the
Porter's
place
was
supply'd
by
a
Woman
;
Exquisitely
handsome
,
both
for
Face
and
Person
;
Tall
;
Delicately
shap'd
,
and
set
off
with
great
Advantages
of
Dress
,
and
Iewells
.
She
was
made
up
in
fine
,
of
Charmes
,
and
her
Name
(
as
I
understood
)
was
Beauty
.
She
would
let
any
man
in
to
see
the
House
for
a
Look
;
and
that
was
all
I
paid
for
my
Passage
.
In
the
first
Court
,
I
found
a
many
of
Both
Sexes
,
but
so
alter'd
in
habit
,
and
Countenance
,
that
they
could
scarce
know
one
another
.
They
were
sad
,
Pensive
;
and
their
Complexions
teinted
with
a
yellow
Paleness
(
which
Ovid
calls
Cupid's
Livery
)
There
was
no
talk
of
being
True
to
Friends
;
Loyal
to
Superiors
;
and
Dutiful
to
Parents
:
But
Kinred
did
the
Office
of
Procurers
;
and
Procurers
were
call'd
Cousins
.
Wives
lov'd
their
Husbands
She-Friends
,
and
Husbands
did
as
much
for
Them
,
in
loving
their
Gallants
.
While
I
was
upon
the
Contemplation
of
these
Encounters
of
Affection
,
their
appear'd
a
strange
Extravagant
figure
,
but
in
the
likeness
of
a
Humane
Creature
.
It
was
neither
perfectly
Man
,
nor
perfectly
Woman
,
but
had
indeed
a
Resemblance
of
Both.
This
Person
I
perceiv'd
was
Ever
busy
,
up
and
down
,
going
and
coming
;
beset
all
over
with
Eyes
and
Ears
,
and
had
one
of
the
Craftiest
distrustful
Lookes
(
methought
)
that
ever
I
saw
.
And
withal
(
as
I
observ'd
)
no
small
Authority
in
the
Place
,
which
made
me
enquire
after
this
Creature
's
Name
,
and
Office
.
My
Name
(
quoth
she
)
for
now
it
prov'd
to
be
a
Woman
)
is
Ielousy
,
and
methinks
,
you
and
I
should
be
better
acquainted
,
for
how
come
you
here
else
?
However
,
for
your
satisfaction
;
you
are
to
understand
that
the
greater
part
of
the
Distemper'd
people
you
see
here
,
are
of
my
bringing
;
and
yet
I
am
not
their
Physician
,
but
their
Tormentor
;
and
serve
only
to
aggravate
,
and
Embitter
their
Misfortunes
.
If
you
would
know
any
thing
further
of
the
House
,
never
ask
me
,
for
't
is
Forty
to
One
I
shall
tell
you
a
Lye
;
I
have
not
told
you
half
the
Truth
even
of
my self
;
and
to
deal
plainly
with
you
,
I
am
made
up
of
Inventions
,
Artifice
,
and
Imposture
:
But
the
Good
Old
man
that
walks
there
,
is
the
Major
Domo
,
and
will
t●ll
you
all
,
if
you
will
but
bear
with
his
slow
way
of
Discourse
.
Thereupon
I
went
to
the
Good
Man
,
whom
I
knew
presently
to
be
Time
:
and
desir'd
him
●o
let
me
look
into
the
several
Quarters
and
Lodgings
of
the
House
,
for
there
were
some
Fools
of
my
Acquaintance
there
I
'd
fain
Visit
;
He
told
me
that
he
was
at
present
so
busie
about
making
of
Candles
,
Cock-broths
,
and
Gellies
for
his
Patients
,
that
he
could
not
stir
;
but
yet
he
directed
me
where
I
might
find
all
those
I
inquired
for
,
and
gave
me
the
freedom
of
the
House
to
walk
at
pleasure
.
I
past
out
of
the
First
Court
,
into
the
Maids-Quarter
,
which
was
the
very
strongest
part
of
the
whole
Building
;
and
so
't
had
need
;
for
divers
of
the
Young
Wenches
were
so
Extravagant
and
Furious
,
that
no
other
place
would
have
held
them
.
(
The
Wives
and
Widdows
were
in
another
Room
apart
.
)
Here
ye
should
have
One
,
sobbing
and
raging
with
Ielousie
of
a
Rival
.
There
Another
,
Stark
mad
for
a
Husband
;
and
inwardly
bleeding
because
she
durst
not
discover
it
.
A
Third
was
writing
of
Letters
all
Riddle
and
Mystery
,
Mending
and
Marring
,
till
at
last
the
Paper
had
more
blots
than
whole
words
in
it
.
Some
were
practising
in
the
Glass
the
Gracious
Smile
,
the
Rowle
of
the
Eye
,
the
Velvet
Lip
,
&c.
Others
again
were
in
a
Diet
of
Oatmeal
,
Clay
,
Chalk
,
Cole
,
Hard
Wax
,
and
the
like
.
Some
were
conditioning
with
their
Servants
for
a
Ball
,
or
a
Serenade
,
that
the
whole
Town
might
ring
of
the
Address
.
Yes
,
yes
,
they
cry'd
,
You
can
go
to
the
Park
with
This
Lady
,
and
to
a
Play
with
That
Lady
,
and
to
Banstead
with
T'other
Lady
,
and
spend
whole
Nights
at
Beste
or
Ombre
with
my
Lady
Pen-Tweezel
;
but
by
my
Troth
,
I
think
you
are
asham'd
to
be
seen
in
my
Company
.
Some
I
saw
upon
the
very
point
of
Sealing
and
Delivering
.
I
am
Thine
(
crys
one
)
and
Thine
Alone
,
or
let
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
&c.
But
be
sure
you
be
Constant.
If
I
he
not
(
says
he
)
let
my
Soul
,
&c.
and
the
silly
Jade
believes
him
.
In
one
Corner
ye
should
have
them
praying
for
Husbands
,
that
they
might
the
better
love
at
Randome
:
In
another
,
nothing
would
please
them
but
to
be
Marry'd-Mens
Wives
,
and
this
Disease
was
lookt
upon
as
a
little
Desperate
.
Some
again
stood
ready
furnisht
with
Love-Letters
and
Tickets
to
be
cast
out
at
the
Window
,
or
thrust
under
the
Door
,
and
These
were
lookt
upon
not
only
as
Fools
but
Beasts
.
I
had
seen
as
much
already
as
I
desir'd
,
for
I
had
learnt
of
Old
,
that
He
that
keeps
such
Company
,
seldom
comes
off
without
a
scratcht
face
:
but
if
he
misses
a
Mistress
,
he
gets
a
Wife
,
and
stands
condemn'd
to
a
Repentance
during
Life
,
without
Redemption
,
unless
One
of
the
Two
dies
.
For
Women
in
the
Case
are
worse
than
Pyrats
;
a
Gally-Slave
may
compound
for
his
Freedom
,
but
there
's
no
thought
of
Ransom
in
Case
of
Wedlock
.
I
had
a
good
mind
to
a
little
Chat
with
some
of
them
,
but
(
thought
I
)
they
'l
Phancy
I
'm
in
Love
wi●h
them
.
And
so
I
e'en
march'd
off
into
the
Marry'd
Quarter
.
Where
there
was
such
Ranting
,
Damning
,
and
Tearing
,
as
if
Hell
had
been
broke
l●os●
.
And
what
was
all
This
?
but
a
number
of
women
that
had
been
lockt
up
and
shackl'd
by
their
Husbands
,
to
keep
them
in
Obedience
,
and
had
now
broken
their
Prisons
,
and
their
Chains
,
and
were
grown
ten
times
madder
than
before
.
Some
I
saw
Caressing
and
Cokesing
their
Husbands
,
in
the
very
moment
they
design'd
to
betray
them
.
Others
were
picking
their
Husbands
Pockets
to
pay
now
and
then
for
a
By-Blow
.
Some
again
were
upon
a
Religious
point
,
and
all
upon
the
Humour
(
forsooth
)
of
Pilgrimages
and
Lectures
;
when
alas
!
they
had
no
other
business
with
the
Altars
or
Churches
,
than
a
Sacrifice
to
Venus
,
or
a
Love-meeting
.
Divers
there
were
that
went
to
the
Bath
;
but
Bathing
was
the
least
part
of
their
Errand
.
Others
to
Confession
,
that
mistook
their
Martyr
for
their
Confessor
:
Some
to
be
reveng'd
of
Ielous
Husbands
,
were
resolving
to
do
the
thing
they
fear'd
;
and
pay
them
in
their
Coin
.
Others
were
for
making
sure
afore-hand
by
way
of
Advance
;
for
that
's
the
Revenge
,
they
say
,
that
's
as
sweet
as
Muscadine
and
Eggs.
One
was
Melancholy
for
a
Delay
;
Another
for
a
Defeat
;
a
Third
is
preparing
to
make
her
Market
at
a
Play
.
There
was
One
among
the
rest
,
was
never
out
of
her
Coach
;
and
asking
her
the
Reason
,
she
told
me
,
she
lov'd
●o
be
●olted
.
In
this
Crowd
of
Women
,
you
mu●t
know
that
there
were
no
Wives
of
Embassadors
,
Souldiers
,
or
Merchants
that
were
abroad
upon
Commission
;
f●r
such
were
consider'd
in
effect
as
single
Women
,
and
not
allow'd
as
members
of
this
Commonwealth
.
The
next
Quarter
was
that
of
the
Grave
and
Wise
;
the
Right
Reverend
Widdows
;
Women
in
appearance
of
Marvelous
severity
and
reserve
,
and
yet
every
One
of
them
had
her
weak
side
,
and
ye
might
read
her
Folly
and
Distemper
through
her
Disguise
.
One
of
them
I
saw
crying
with
one
Eye
for
the
loss
of
one
Husband
,
and
laughing
with
t'other
upon
him
that
was
to
come
next
.
Another
,
with
the
Ephesian
Matron
,
was
making
the
best
of
a
bad
Game
,
and
solacing
her self
with
her
Gallant
,
before
her
Husband
was
thorough
cold
in
the
mouth
;
considering
,
that
he
that
dy'd
half
an
hour
ago
,
is
as
dead
as
William
the
Conqueror
.
There
were
several
others
passing
to
and
again
,
quite
out
of
their
mourning
,
that
lookt
so
demurely
(
I
warrant
ye
)
as
if
Butter
would
not
have
melted
in
their
mouths
,
and
yet
Apostate
Widdows
(
as
I
was
told
)
and
there
they
were
kept
as
strictly
,
as
if
they
had
been
in
the
Spanish
Inquisition
.
Some
were
laying
wagers
,
whose
mourning
was
most
a-la-mode
,
and
best
made
;
or
whose
Peak
or
Veil
became
her
Best
:
and
setting
themselves
off
with
a
Thousand
tricks
of
Ornament
and
Dress
.
The
Widdows
I
observ'd
that
were
marching
off
,
with
the
marque
out
of
their
mouths
,
were
hugely
concern'd
to
be
thought
Young
,
and
still
talking
of
Masques
,
Balls
,
Fiddles
,
Treats
;
Chanting
and
Iigging
to
every
tune
they
heard
,
and
all
upon
the
Hoyty-Toyty
like
mad
wenches
of
fifteen
.
The
Younger
,
on
the
other
side
,
made
use
of
their
time
and
took
pleasure
while
't
was
to
be
had
.
There
were
too
of
the
Religious
strain
;
a
people
much
at
their
Beads
,
and
in
private
;
and
These
were
there
in
the
Quality
of
Love-Hereticks
,
or
Platonicks
,
and
under
the
Penance
of
perpetual
Abstinence
from
the
Flesh
they
lov'd
best
(
which
is
the
most
Mortifying
Lent
of
all
Other
)
Some
,
that
had
skill
in
Perspective
,
were
before
the
Glass
with
their
Boxes
of
Patch
and
Paint
about
them
;
Shadowing
,
Drawing
out
,
Refreshing
,
and
in
short
,
Covering
and
Palliating
,
all
the
Imperfections
of
Feature
and
Complexion
,
every
one
after
her
own
Humour
.
Now
these
women
were
absolutely
insufferable
,
for
they
were
most
of
them
Old
and
Head-strong
,
having
got
the
better
of
their
Husbands
,
so
that
they
would
be
taking
upon
them
to
domineer
here
,
as
they
had
done
at
home
;
and
indeed
,
they
found
the
Master
of
the
College
enough
to
do
.
When
I
had
tyr'd
my self
with
this
Variety
of
Folly
and
Madness
,
I
went
to
the
Devotes
;
where
I
found
a
great
many
women
and
girles
that
had
Cloystered
up
themselves
from
the
Conversation
of
the
World
;
and
yet
were
not
a
jot
soberer
than
their
Fellows
.
These
one
would
have
thought
might
have
been
easily
cur'd
,
but
many
of
them
were
in
for
their
Lives
,
in
despight
of
Either
Counsel
or
Physick
.
The
Room
where
they
were
was
Barricado'd
with
strong
Bars
of
Iron
;
and
yet
when
the
Toy
took
them
,
They
'd
make
now
and
then
a
Sally
:
for
when
the
Fit
was
upon
them
,
they
'd
own
no
Superior
but
Love
,
come
what
would
on
't
in
the
Event
.
The
greater
part
of
these
good
People
,
were
writing
of
Tickets
and
Dispatches
,
which
had
still
the
sign
of
the
Cross
at
the
Top
,
and
Satan
at
the
Bottom
,
concluding
with
This
,
or
some
such
Postscript
;
I
commend
this
Paper
to
your
Discretion
.
The
Fools
of
This
Province
would
be
Twatling
Night
and
Day
;
and
if
it
happen'd
that
any
one
of
them
had
talkt
her self
a
weary
,
(
which
was
very
rare
)
she
would
presently
take
upon
her
very
gravely
to
admonish
the
Rest
,
and
read
a
Lecture
of
Silence
to
the
Company
.
There
were
some
that
for
want
of
better
Entertainment
fell
in
Love
with
one
another
;
but
these
were
lookt
upon
as
a
sort
of
Fops
and
Ninnys
,
and
therefore
the
more
favourably
us'd
;
but
they
'd
have
been
of
another
mind
,
if
they
had
known
the
Cause
of
their
Distemper
.
The
Root
of
all
these
several
Extravagancies
was
Idleness
,
which
(
according
to
Petrarch's
Observation
)
never
fails
to
make
way
for
wantonness
.
There
was
One
among
the
Rest
,
that
had
more
Letters
of
Exchange
upon
the
Credit
of
her
insatiable
desires
,
than
a
whole
Regiment
of
Banquiers
.
Some
of
them
were
sick
of
their
Old
Visiter
,
and
call'd
for
a
Freshman
.
Others
,
by
Intervals
,
I
perceiv'd
had
their
wits
about
them
,
and
contented
themselves
discreetly
with
the
Physician
of
the
House
.
In
short
,
It
e'en
pity'd
my
heart
to
see
so
many
poor
people
in
so
sad
a
Condition
,
and
without
any
hope
of
Relief
,
as
I
gather'd
from
him
that
had
them
in
care
:
for
they
were
still
Puddering
and
Royling
their
Bodies
;
and
if
they
got
a
little
Ease
for
the
present
,
they
'd
be
down
again
,
as
soon
as
they
had
taken
their
Medicine
.
From
thence
,
I
went
to
the
single
women
(
such
as
made
Profession
never
to
marry
)
which
were
the
least
Outragious
,
and
discompos'd
of
all
;
for
they
had
a
thousand
wayes
to
Lay
the
Devil
as
well
as
to
Raise
him
.
Some
of
them
liv'd
like
common
High-way
men
,
by
Robbing
Peter
to
Pay
Paul
;
and
stripping
honest
men
to
cloth
Rascals
,
which
is
(
under
favour
)
but
a
lewd
kind
of
Charity
.
Others
there
were
,
that
were
absolutely
out
of
their
seven
senses
,
and
as
Mad
as
March-Hares
for
This
Wit
,
and
t'other
Poet
;
that
never
fail'd
to
pay
them
again
in
Rimes
,
and
Madrigals
,
with
Ruby
Lips
;
Pearly
Teeth
:
so
that
to
read
their
Ver●es
,
a
man
would
swear
the
whole
woman
to
be
directly
Petrify'd
.
Of
Saphir
fair
,
or
Chrystal
cleer
,
Is
the
Forehead
of
my
Dear
,
&c.
I
saw
One
in
Consultation
with
a
Cunning
man
to
know
her
Fortune
;
Another
,
dealing
with
a
Conjurer
for
a
Philtre
,
or
Drink
to
make
her
Belov'd
.
A
Third
was
dawbing
and
patching
up
an
Old
ruin'd-Face
,
to
make
it
fresh
and
young
again
:
but
she
might
as
well
have
been
washing
of
a
Blackmoor
to
make
him
White
.
In
fine
,
a
world
there
were
,
that
with
their
borrow'd
Hair
,
Teeth
,
Eyes
,
Eye-Brows
,
look't
like
fine
folks
at
a
Distance
,
but
would
have
been
left
as
Ridiculous
,
as
AEsop's
Crow
,
if
every
Bird
had
fetch
't
away
his
own
Feather
.
'
Deliver
me
(
thought
I
,
smiling
and
shaking
my
head
)
if
This
be
Woman
.
And
so
I
step't
into
the
Men's
Quarter
which
was
but
next
door
,
and
only
a
Thick
Wall
between
.
Their
great
Misery
was
that
they
were
deaf
to
good
advice
,
obstinately
hating
,
and
despising
both
Physick
,
and
Physician
:
for
if
they
would
have
either
quitted
,
or
chang'd
,
they
might
have
been
cured
.
But
they
chose
rather
to
dye
,
and
though
they
saw
their
Errour
,
would
not
mend
it
.
Which
minded
me
of
the
Old
Rime
:
Where
Love
's
in
the
Case
,
The
Doctor
's
an
Ass.
These
Fools-male
were
all
in
the
same
Chamber
;
and
one
might
perfectly
read
their
Humour
,
and
Distemper
,
in
their
Looks
and
Gestures
.
Oh!
how
many
a
gay
Lad
did
I
see
there
,
in
his
Poynt
Band
,
and
Embroyder'd
Vest
,
that
had
not
a
whole
Shirt
to
his
Back
!
How
many
Huffes
and
Highboyes
,
that
had
nothing
else
in
their
Mouths
,
but
the
Lives
and
Fortunes
they
'd
spend
in
their
sweet
Ladies
service
!
that
would
yet
have
run
five
miles
on
your
Errand
,
to
have
been
treated
but
at
a
Three-penny
Ordinary
?
How
many
a
poor
Devil
that
wanted
Bread
,
and
was
yet
troubled
with
the
Rebellion
of
the
Flesh
!
Some
there
were
,
that
spent
much
time
in
setting
their
Perruques
,
Ordering
the
Mustache
,
and
dressing
up
the
very
face
of
Lucifer
himself
for
a
Beauty
:
(
The
Woman's
Privilege
,
and
in
truth
an
Encrochment
,
to
their
prejudice
)
There
were
Others
,
that
made
it
their
Glory
to
pass
for
Hectors
;
Sons
of
Priam
;
Brothers
of
the
Blade
;
and
Talk't
of
nothing
but
Attacques
,
Combats
,
Reverses
,
Stramazons
,
Stoccados
:
not
considering
that
a
Naked
Weapon
is
present
Death
to
a
Timerous
Woman
.
Some
were
taking
the
Round
of
their
Ladies
Lodgings
,
at
Midnight
,
and
went
to
bed
again
as
wise
as
they
rose
.
Others
fell
in
Love
by
Contagion
,
and
meerly
conversing
with
the
Infected
.
Some
again
went
Post
from
Church
to
Chappel
,
every
Holy-day
,
to
hunt
for
a
Mistress
;
and
so
turn'd
a
Day
of
Rest
into
a
Day
of
Labour
.
Ye
might
see
others
skipping
continually
from
house
to
house
,
like
the
Knight
upon
a
Chess-bord
,
without
ever
catching
the
(
Queen
or
)
Dame
.
Some
,
like
crafty
Beggars
made
their
Case
worse
then
't
was
:
And
Others
though
't
were
n'ere
so
bad
,
durst
not
so
much
as
open
their
Mouths
.
Really
it
griev'd
me
for
the
poor
Mutes
,
and
I
wish't
with
all
my
Heart
,
their
Mistresses
had
been
Witches
,
that
they
might
have
known
their
Meaning
by
their
Mumping
;
but
they
were
lost
to
all
Counsel
,
so
that
there
was
no
advising
them
.
There
was
another
sort
of
Elevated
,
and
Conceited
Lovers
:
and
These
forsooth
were
not
to
be
satisfy'd
without
the
Seven
Liberal
Sciences
,
and
the
Four
Cardinal
Vertues
,
in
the
shape
of
a
Woman
;
and
their
Case
was
Desperate
.
The
next
I
observ'd
,
were
a
Generation
of
Modest
Fools
,
that
past
there
under
the
Notion
of
people
Diffident
of
Themselves
.
They
were
generally
men
of
good
Underderstanding
,
but
for
the
most
part
Younger
Brothers
,
of
low
fortunes
,
and
such
as
for
want
of
wherewithal
to
go
to
the
Price
of
higher
Amours
,
were
fain
to
take
up
with
Ordinary
Stuffe
,
that
brought
them
nothing
in
the
End
,
but
Beggery
,
and
Repentance
.
The
Husbands
,
I
perceiv'd
,
were
horribly
furious
,
although
in
Manacles
,
and
Shackles
.
Some
of
them
left
their
own
Wives
,
and
fell
upon
their
Neighbours
.
Others
to
keep
the
good
Women
in
Awe
and
Obedience
,
would
be
taking
upon
them
,
and
playing
the
Tyrants
,
but
upon
the
Upshot
they
found
their
Mistake
,
and
that
though
they
came
on
as
fierce
as
Lions
,
they
went
off
as
Tame
as
Muttons
.
Some
were
making
Friendships
with
their
Wives
She-Cousins
:
and
agreeing
upon
a
Cross-Gossipping
whoever
should
have
the
first
Child
.
The
Widdowers
,
that
had
bit
of
the
Bridl●
,
past
from
place
to
place
,
where
they
staid
more
or
less
,
according
to
their
Entertainment
,
and
so
were
in
effect
,
as
good
as
marry'd
;
for
as
long
,
or
as
little
a
while
as
Themselves
pleas'd
.
These
liv'd
single
,
and
spent
their
time
in
Visiting
,
first
One
Friend
,
then
Another
.
Here
they
fell
in
Love
;
There
they
kindled
a
Ielousy
,
which
they
contracted
Themselves
in
one
place
,
and
cur'd
it
in
another
.
But
the
Miracle
was
,
that
they
all
knew
,
and
confest
themselves
a
Company
of
Mad
Fools
,
and
yet
continu'd
so
.
Those
that
had
skill
in
Musick
,
and
could
either
Sing
or
Fiddle
,
made
use
of
their
Gifts
,
to
put
the
silly
Wenches
that
were
but
half
Mop'd
before
,
directly
out
of
their
Wits
.
They
that
were
Poetical
,
were
perpetually
hammering
upon
the
Subjects
of
Cruelty
,
and
Disappointment
.
One
tells
his
Good
Fortune
to
another
,
that
requi●es
him
with
the
story
of
his
Bad.
They
that
had
set
their
Hearts
upon
Girls
,
were
beating
the
streets
all
day
,
to
find
what
Avenues
to
a
Lady's
lodgings
at
night
.
Some
were
tampering
and
Caressing
the
Chamber-maid
,
as
the
ready
way
to
the
Mistress
.
Others
chose
rather
to
put
it
to
the
Push
,
and
attempt
the
Lady
Her self
.
Some
were
Examining
their
Pockets
,
and
taking
a
View
of
their
Furniture
;
which
consisted
much
in
Love-Letters
,
delicately
seal'd
up
with
perfum'd
Wax
,
upon
Raw
silk
;
and
a
Thousand
pretty
Devices
within
;
All
wrap't
up
in
Riddle
,
and
Cipher
.
Abundance
of
Hair
Bracelets
,
Lockets
,
Pomanders
,
Knots
of
Ribband
,
and
the
like
.
There
were
others
,
that
were
call'd
the
Husband's
Friends
,
who
were
ready
upon
all
Occasions
to
do
This
,
and
to
do
That
Kindness
for
the
Husband
.
Their
Purse
,
Credit
,
Coach
and
Horses
,
were
all
at
his
service
:
And
in
the
mean
time
,
who
but
They
to
Gallant
the
Wife
?
To
the
Park
,
the
Gardens
,
a
Treat
,
or
a
Comedy
:
where
forty
to
one
,
by
the
Greatest
good
luck
in
the
World
,
they
stumble
upon
an
Aunt
,
an
old
House-Keeper
of
the
Family
,
or
some
such
Reverend
Goer-between
,
that
's
a
well-willer
to
the
Mathematicks
;
she
takes
the
hint
,
performs
the
Good
Office
,
and
the
Work
is
done
.
Now
there
were
two
sorts
of
Fools
for
the
Widdows
;
The
one
was
Belov'd
;
and
the
Other
not
.
The
latter
were
content
to
be
a
kind
of
Voluntary
slaves
,
for
the
compassing
their
Ends
:
but
the
other
,
were
the
Happier
;
for
they
were
ever
at
perfect
Liberty
to
do
their
Pleasure
,
unless
some
Friend
or
Child
of
the
House
perchance
came
in
,
in
the
Mischievous
Nick
,
and
then
in
case
of
a
little
colour
more
than
Ordinary
,
or
a
tumbled
Handkercher
,
't
was
but
changing
the
Scene
and
strugling
for
a
paper
of
Verses
or
some
such
business
to
keep
all
in
Countenance
.
Some
made
their
A●●aults
both
with
Love
,
and
Money
,
and
they
seldom
fail'd
,
for
they
came
doubly
arm'd
;
and
your
Spanish
Pistols
are
a
sort
of
Battery
hardly
to
be
resisted
.
I
came
now
to
reflect
upon
what
I
had
seen
,
and
as
I
was
walking
(
in
that
Meditation
)
toward
another
lodging
,
I
found
my self
(
ere
I
was
aware
)
in
the
first
Court
again
;
where
I
enter'd
,
and
in
it
I
observ'd
new
Wonders
:
I
saw
that
the
Number
of
the
Mad
fools
increas'd
every
moment
;
Although
Time
(
I
perceiv'd
)
did
all
that
was
possible
to
recover
them
.
There
was
Ielousy
tormenting
even
those
that
were
most
confident
of
the
Faith
of
what
they
lov'd
.
There
was
Memory
rubbing
of
Old
sores
.
There
was
Vnderstanding
,
lock't
up
in
a
dark
Cellar
:
and
Reason
with
both
her
Eyes
out
.
I
made
a
little
pause
,
the
better
to
observe
these
Varieties
,
and
Disguises
.
And
when
I
had
look't
my self
a
weary
,
I
turn'd
about
and
spy'd
a
Door
;
but
so
Narrow
that
it
was
hardly
passable
;
And
yet
streight
as
it
was
,
divers
there
were
that
Ingratitude
,
and
Infidelity
had
set
at
Liberty
;
and
made
a
shift
to
get
through
.
Upon
which
Opportunity
of
Returning
,
I
made
what
haste
I
could
to
be
One
of
the
first
at
the
Door
,
and
in
that
Instant
,
my
Man
drew
the
Curtain
of
my
Bed
,
and
told
me
,
the
Morning
was
far
gone
.
Whereupon
I
wak'd
,
and
recollecting
my self
,
found
all
was
but
a
Dream
.
The
very
Phansy
however
of
having
spent
so
much
time
in
the
Company
of
Fools
,
and
Madmen
,
gave
me
some
Disorder
,
but
with
this
Comfort
,
that
both
sleeping
and
waking
,
I
had
experimented
Passionate
Love
to
be
nothing
else
then
a
meer
Phrensy
,
and
Folly
.
The
end
of
the
fourth
Vision
.
THE
FIFTH
VISION
OF
THE
WORLD
.
IT
is
utterly
Impossible
for
any
thing
in
this
World
to
fix
our
Appetites
,
and
Desires
,
but
they
are
still
flitting
and
restless
like
Pilgrims
;
delighted
and
nourish't
with
Variety
:
which
shews
how
much
we
are
mistaken
in
the
Value
and
Quality
of
the
things
we
covet
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
what
we
pursue
with
the
greatest
delight
,
and
Passion
Imaginable
,
yields
us
nothing
but
Satiety
,
and
Repentance
in
the
Possession
;
yet
such
is
the
Power
of
these
Appetites
of
ours
,
that
when
they
call
,
and
command
;
we
follow
,
and
Obey
;
though
we
find
in
the
End
,
that
what
we
took
for
a
Beauty
upon
the
Chace
,
proves
but
a
Carkass
in
the
Quarry
;
and
we
are
sick
on
't
as
soon
as
we
have
it
.
Now
the
World
,
that
knows
our
Palate
,
and
Inclination
,
never
fails
to
feed
the
Humour
,
and
to
flatter
,
and
entertain
us
,
with
all
sorts
of
Change
,
and
Novelty
;
as
the
most
certain
Method
of
gaining
upon
our
Affections
.
One
would
have
thought
,
that
these
Considerations
might
have
put
sober
Thoughts
and
Resolutions
in
my
Head
,
but
it
was
my
fate
to
be
taken
off
,
in
the
very
Middle
of
my
Morality
and
Speculations
;
and
carry'd
away
from
my self
by
Vanity
,
and
Weakness
,
into
the
wide
world
,
where
I
was
for
a
while
after
,
not
much
unsatisfy'd
with
my
Condition
.
As
I
past
from
one
place
to
another
,
several
that
saw
me
(
I
perceiv'd
)
did
but
make
sport
with
me
:
for
the
further
I
went
,
the
more
I
was
at
a
loss
in
that
Labyrinth
of
Delusions
.
One
while
,
I
was
in
with
the
Sword-men
and
Bravoes
;
up
to
the
Ears
in
Challenges
,
and
Quarrels
;
and
never
without
an
Arm
in
a
Scarf
,
or
a
broken
Head
.
Another
Fit
;
I
was
never
well
,
but
either
at
the
Fleece-Tavern
,
or
Bear
at
Bridg-foot
,
stuffing
my
Guts
with
Food
,
and
Tipple
,
till
the
Hoops
were
ready
to
burst
.
Beside
twenty
other
Entertainments
that
I
found
,
every
jott
as
Extravagant
as
these
,
which
to
my
great
Trouble
and
Admiration
,
left
me
not
so
much
as
one
moment
of
Repose
.
As
I
was
in
one
of
my
unquiet
,
and
pensive
Moods
;
some
body
call'd
after
me
and
pluck't
me
by
the
Cloak
:
which
prov'd
to
be
A
person
of
a
Venerable
age
;
His
Clothes
miserably
poor
and
Tatter'd
;
and
his
Face
,
just
as
if
He
had
been
Trampl'd
upon
in
the
Streets
,
which
did
not
yet
hinder
,
but
that
he
had
still
the
Ayr
and
Appearance
of
one
that
deserv'd
much
Honour
and
Respect
.
Good
Father
,
(
said
I
to
him
)
why
should
you
envy
me
my
Enjoyments
?
Pray'e
let
me
alone
,
and
do
not
trouble
your self
with
me
,
or
my
doings
.
You
're
past
the
pleasure
of
Life
your self
,
and
can't
endure
to
see
other
people
merry
,
that
have
the
world
before
them
.
Consider
of
it
;
you
are
now
upon
the
point
of
leaving
the
world
,
and
I
am
but
newly
come
into
't
.
But
't
is
the
Trick
of
all
Old
men
to
be
carping
at
the
Actions
of
their
Iuniors
.
Son
(
said
the
old
man
,
smiling
)
I
shall
neither
hinder
,
nor
envy
thy
Delights
,
but
in
pure
pity
I
would
fain
reclaim
Thee
.
Do'st
thou
know
the
Price
of
a
Day
;
an
hour
;
or
a
Minute
?
Did'st
ever
examine
the
value
of
Time
?
If
thou
had'st
,
thou
would'st
employ
it
better
;
and
not
cast
away
so
many
blessed
Opportunities
upon
Trifles
;
and
so
Easily
,
and
Insensibly
,
part
with
so
inestimable
a
Treasure
.
What
's
become
of
thy
past
hours
?
have
they
made
thee
a
Promise
,
to
come
back
again
at
a
Call
when
thou
hast
need
of
them
?
Or
,
can'st
thou
show
me
which
way
they
went
?
No
,
No
;
They
are
gone
without
Recovery
;
and
in
their
Flight
,
methinks
,
Time
seems
to
turn
his
Head
,
and
laugh
over
his
shoulder
,
in
Derision
of
those
that
made
no
better
use
of
him
,
when
they
had
him
.
Do'st
thou
not
know
,
that
all
the
Minutes
of
our
life
,
are
but
as
so
many
Links
of
a
Chain
,
that
has
Death
at
the
End
on
't
?
and
every
Moment
brings
thee
nearer
thy
Expected
End
,
which
perchance
,
while
the
word
is
speaking
,
may
be
at
thy
very
door
:
And
doubtless
at
thy
rate
of
Living
,
it
will
be
upon
thee
before
thou
art
aware
.
How
stupid
is
He
,
that
Dyes
while
he
Lives
,
for
fear
of
Dying
!
How
wicked
is
He
that
Lives
,
as
if
He
should
never
Dye
;
and
only
fears
Death
when
he
comes
to
feel
it
!
which
is
too
late
for
comfort
,
either
to
Body
,
or
Soul
:
And
He
is
certainly
none
of
the
Wisest
that
spends
all
his
days
in
Lewdness
,
and
Debauchery
;
without
considering
▪
that
of
his
whole
Life
,
any
Minute
might
have
been
his
last
.
My
Good
Father
(
said
I
)
I
am
beholding
to
you
for
your
Excellent
Discourses
,
for
they
have
deliver'd
me
out
of
the
Power
of
a
Thousand
Frivolous
and
Vain
Affections
,
that
had
taken
possession
of
me
.
But
who
are
You
,
I
pray'e
?
And
what
is
your
Business
here
?
My
Poverty
and
These
Rags
,
quoth
he
,
are
enough
to
tell
ye
that
I
am
an
honest
man
;
a
Friend
to
Truth
,
and
one
that
will
not
be
Mealy-Mouth'd
,
when
he
may
speak
it
to
Purpose
.
Some
call
me
the
Plain-Dealer
;
Others
,
the
Vndeceiver
General
.
You
see
me
all
in
Tatters
,
Wounds
,
Scars
,
Bruises
.
And
what
is
all
This
,
but
the
Requital
the
World
gives
me
,
for
my
Good
Counsel
,
and
Kind
Visits
?
And
yet
after
all
this
endeavour
to
get
shut
of
me
;
they
call
themselves
my
Friends
:
though
they
Curse
me
to
the
Pit
of
Hell
,
as
soon
as
ever
I
come
neer
them
;
and
had
rather
be
hang'd
,
then
spend
one
Quarter
of
an
hour
in
my
Company
.
If
thou
hast
a
Mind
to
see
the
World
I
talk
of
,
come
along
with
me
,
and
I
'l
carry
thee
into
a
place
▪
where
thou
shalt
have
a
full
Prospect
of
it
;
and
without
any
Inconvenience
,
see
all
that
's
in
't
;
or
in
the
People
that
dwell
in
't
;
and
look
it
through
and
through
.
What
's
the
Name
of
this
place
?
quoth
I.
It
is
call'd
,
said
he
,
The
Hypocrites
Walk
;
and
it
crosses
the
World
from
one
Pole
to
t'other
.
It
is
large
,
and
Populous
;
for
I
believe
there
's
not
any
man
alive
,
but
has
either
a
House
or
a
Chamber
in
't
.
Some
live
in
't
for
altogether
;
Others
take
it
only
in
Passage
:
for
there
are
Hypocrites
of
several
sorts
;
but
all
Mortals
have
,
more
or
less
,
a
Tang
of
the
Leaven
.
That
fellow
there
in
the
Corner
,
came
but
to'ther
day
from
the
Plow-Tayl
,
and
would
now
fain
be
a
Gentleman
.
But
had
not
he
better
pay
his
Debts
,
and
walk
alone
,
then
break
his
Promises
to
keep
a
Laquay
?
There
's
another
Rascal
that
would
fain
be
a
Lord
;
and
would
venture
a
Voyage
to
Venice
for
the
Title
,
but
that
He
's
better
at
building
Castles
in
the
Air
,
then
upon
the
Water
.
In
the
mean
time
,
he
puts
on
a
Nobleman's
Face
,
and
Garb
;
he
swears
and
Drinks
like
a
Lord
,
and
keeps
his
Hounds
and
Whores
,
which
't
is
fear'd
in
the
end
,
will
devour
their
Master
.
Mark
now
that
piece
of
Gravity
,
and
Form
;
He
walks
ye
see
,
as
if
he
mov'd
by
Clock-work
;
His
words
are
few
,
and
Low
;
He
makes
all
his
Answers
by
a
Shrug
,
or
a
Nod.
This
is
the
Hypocrite
of
a
Minister
of
State
;
who
with
all
his
Counterfeit
of
Wisdom
,
is
one
of
the
veriest
Noddies
in
Nature
.
Face
about
now
,
and
mind
those
Decrepit
Sots
there
,
that
can
scarce
lift
a
Leg
over
a
Threshold
,
and
yet
they
must
be
Dying
their
Hair
,
Colouring
their
Beards
,
and
playing
the
young
fools
again
,
with
a
Thousand
Hobby-horse
Tricks
,
and
Antick
Dresses
.
On
the
other
side
;
Ye
have
a
Compa●y
of
Silly
Boys
,
taking
upon
them
to
govern
the
world
,
under
a
Vizor
of
Wisdom
,
and
Experience
.
What
Lord
is
That
(
said
I
)
in
the
Rich
Clothes
there
,
and
the
fine
Laces
?
That
Lord
(
quoth
he
)
is
a
Taylor
,
in
his
Holy-day
Clothes
;
and
if
He
were
now
upon
his
Shop-bord
,
his
own
Scissers
and
Needles
would
hardly
know
him
:
And
you
must
understand
,
that
Hypocrisy
is
so
Epidemical
a
Disease
,
that
it
has
laid
hold
of
the
Trades
themselves
,
as
well
as
the
Masters
.
The
Cobler
must
be
saluted
,
Mr.
Translater
.
The
Groom
names
himself
Gentleman
of
the
Horse
;
The
fellow
that
carries
Guts
to
the
Bears
,
writes
,
One
of
his
Majesty's
Officers
.
The
Hangman
calls
himself
a
Minister
of
Iustice
.
The
Mountebank
,
an
Able
man
.
A
Common
Whore
passes
for
a
Courtisan
.
The
B●wd
acts
the
Puritan
.
Gaming
Ordinaries
are
call'd
Academies
;
and
Bawdy-houses
,
Places
of
Entertainment
.
The
Page
stiles
himself
the
Child
of
Honour
;
and
the
Foot-boy
calls
himself
My
Lady's
Page
.
And
every
Pick-Thank
names
himself
a
Courtier
.
The
Cuckold-maker
passes
for
a
Fine
Gentleman
;
and
the
Cuckold
himself
,
for
the
best
natur'd
Husband
in
the
World
:
And
a
very
Ass
,
commences
Master-Doctor
.
Hocus
Pocus
Tricks
are
call'd
Slight
of
Hand
;
Lust
,
Friendship
;
Vsury
,
Thrift
▪
Cheating
is
but
Gallantry
;
Lying
wears
the
Name
of
Invention
;
Malice
goes
for
Quickness
of
Apprehension
;
Cowardice
,
Meekness
of
Nature
;
and
Rashness
carryes
the
Countenance
of
Valour
.
In
fine
,
this
is
all
but
Hypocrisy
,
and
Knavery
in
a
Disguise
;
for
Nothing
is
call'd
by
the
right
Name
.
Now
there
are
beside
these
,
certain
General
Appellations
taken
up
,
which
by
long
Usage
,
are
almost
grown
into
Prescription
.
Every
little
Whore
takes
upon
her
to
be
a
Great
Lady
.
Every
Gown-man
,
to
be
a
Counseller
.
Every
Huffe
to
be
a
Soldat
;
Every
Gay
thing
to
be
a
Cavalier
;
Every
Parish-Clerk
to
be
a
Doctor
;
and
Every
writing-Clerk
in
the
Office
must
be
call'd
Mr
Secretary
.
So
that
the
whole
world
,
take
it
where
you
will
,
is
but
a
meer
Iuggle
;
and
you
will
find
that
Wrath
,
Gluttony
,
Pride
,
Avarice
,
Luxury
,
Murther
,
and
a
Thousand
other
Hainous
sins
,
have
all
of
them
Hypocrisy
for
their
Source
,
and
thither
They
'l
return
again
.
It
would
be
well
(
said
I
)
if
you
could
prove
what
you
say
;
but
I
can
hardly
see
,
how
so
great
a
Diversity
of
Waters
should
proceed
from
one
and
the
same
Fountain
.
I
do
not
wonder
(
quoth
he
)
at
your
Distrust
,
for
you
are
mistaken
in
very
good
Company
;
to
Phansy
a
Contrariety
in
many
things
,
which
are
,
in
effect
,
so
much
alike
.
It
is
agreed
upon
,
both
by
Philosophers
,
and
Divines
,
that
all
Sins
are
Evil
;
and
you
must
allow
,
that
the
Will
Embraces
,
or
pursues
,
no
Evil
but
under
the
Resemblance
of
Good
:
Nor
does
the
Sin
lye
in
the
Representation
,
or
Knowledg
of
what
is
Evil
,
but
in
the
Consent
to
it
.
Which
Consent
it self
is
sinful
,
although
without
any
Subsequent
Act
:
It
's
true
the
Execution
serves
afterward
for
an
Aggravation
,
and
ought
to
be
consider'd
under
many
Differences
,
and
Distinctions
.
But
in
fine
;
Evident
it
is
,
that
the
Will
entertains
no
Ill
,
but
under
th●
shape
of
some
Good
.
What
do
ye
think
now
of
the
Hypocrite
,
that
cuts
your
Thro●t
,
in
his
Arms
,
and
Murders
you
,
under
pretence
of
Kindness
?
What
is
the
Hope
of
an
Hypocrite
?
says
Iob.
He
neither
has
,
nor
can
have
any
:
For
he
is
Wicked
as
he
is
an
Hypocrite
;
and
even
his
best
Actions
are
worth
nothing
,
because
they
are
not
what
they
seem
to
be
.
So
that
of
all
Sinners
,
he
has
the
most
to
answer
for
.
Other
Offenders
sin
only
against
God
.
But
the
Hypocrite
sins
with
Him
,
as
well
as
against
Him
,
making
use
of
his
Holy
Name
as
a
Cloak
and
Countenance
for
his
Wickedness
.
For
which
reason
,
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
after
many
Affirmative
Precepts
deliver'd
to
his
Disciples
,
for
their
Instruction
;
gave
only
This
Negative
.
Be
not
sad
as
the
Hypocrites
:
which
lays
them
open
in
few
words
;
And
he
might
as
well
have
said
,
Be
not
Hypocrites
and
ye
shall
not
be
Wicked
.
We
were
now
come
to
the
Place
the
Old
Man
told
me
of
,
where
I
sound
all
according
to
my
Expectation
,
and
took
the
higher
ground
,
that
I
might
have
the
better
Prospect
of
what
past
.
The
first
remarkable
thing
I
saw
was
a
long
Funeral
Train
of
Kinred
,
and
Guests
,
following
the
Corps
of
a
Deceas'd
Lady
,
in
Company
wi●h
the
Disconsolate
Widdower
;
who
march't
with
his
Chin
upon
his
Breast
;
a
sad
and
a
heavy
pace
;
muffled
up
in
a
Mourning
Hood
,
enough
to
have
stiffled
him
,
with
at
least
Ten
yards
of
Cloth
upon
his
Body
,
and
no
less
in
his
Train
.
Alack
,
Alack
!
cry'd
I
,
that
ever
I
should
live
to
see
so
dismal
a
Spectacle
!
Oh
Blessed
Woman
!
How
did
this
Husband
love
Thee
in
thy
Life-Time
,
that
follows
thee
with
this
Infinite
Faith
and
Affection
,
even
to
thy
Grave
!
And
happy
the
Hu●band
doubtless
,
in
a
Wife
that
deserv'd
this
Kindness
!
and
in
so
many
tender
Friends
,
and
Relations
,
to
take
part
with
him
in
his
Sorrows
.
My
Good
Father
,
let
me
entreat
you
to
observe
this
doleful
Encounter
.
With
that
(
shaking
his
Head
and
smiling
)
My
Son
,
quoth
he
,
Thou
shalt
by
and
by
perceive
,
that
all
is
Nothing
in
the
world
but
Vanity
,
Imposture
,
and
Constraint
;
and
I
will
shew
thee
the
Difference
between
Things
Themselves
,
and
their
Appearances
.
To
see
this
Abundance
of
Torches
,
with
the
Magnificence
of
the
Ceremony
and
Att●ndance
,
One
would
think
there
should
be
some
mighty
matter
in
the
business
:
but
let
me
assure
thee
,
that
all
this
Pudder
comes
to
no
more
,
then
much
ado
about
Nothing
.
The
Woman
was
Nothing
(
effectually
)
even
while
she
liv'd
:
The
Body
now
in
the
Coffin
,
is
somewhat
a
less
Nothing
;
and
the
Funeral
Honours
,
which
are
now
paid
her
,
come
to
just
Nothing
too
.
But
the
Dead
it
seems
must
have
their
Vanities
,
and
their
Holy
days
as
well
as
the
Living
.
Alas
!
What
's
a
Carcass
?
but
the
most
Odious
sort
of
Putrefaction
?
A
Corrupted
Earth
;
fit
neither
for
Fruit
,
nor
Tillage
.
And
then
for
the
sad
Looks
of
the
Mourners
;
They
are
only
troubled
at
the
Invitation
;
and
would
not
care
a
pin
,
if
the
Invi●er
,
and
Body
too
were
both
at
the
Devil
.
And
That
you
might
see
by
their
Behaviour
,
and
Discourses
;
for
when
they
should
have
been
Praying
for
the
Dead
,
they
were
prating
of
her
Pedegree
,
and
Her
last
Will
and
Testament
.
I
'm
not
so
neer
a
kin
(
says
one
)
but
I
might
have
been
spar'd
;
and
I
had
twenty
other
things
to
do
.
Another
should
have
met
Company
at
a
Tavern
;
A
Third
,
at
a
Play
.
A
fourth
mutters
that
he
is
not
placed
according
to
his
Quality
.
Another
cryes
out
,
A
Pox
o●
your
meetings
where
there
is
nothing
stirring
but
Worms-meat
.
Let
me
tell
ye
further
,
that
the
Widdower
Himself
is
not
griev'd
as
you
Imagine
for
the
Dead
Wife
;
but
for
the
Damn'd
Expense
,
in
Blacks
and
Scutcheons
,
Tapers
,
and
Mourners
;
and
that
she
was
not
fairly
laid
to
Rest
,
without
all
this
Ado
:
for
He
perswades
himself
,
that
she
might
have
found
the
way
to
her
Grave
without
a
Candle
.
And
since
she
was
to
Dye
,
't
is
his
opinion
,
that
she
should
have
made
quicker
work
on
't
:
For
a
Good
Wife
,
is
like
a
Good
Christian
,
to
put
her
Conscience
in
order
betimes
,
and
get
her
gone
;
without
lingring
in
the
Hands
of
Doctors
,
'Pothecaries
,
and
Surgeons
,
to
murder
her
Husband
too
,
Or
(
to
save
Charges
)
she
might
have
had
the
discretion
to
have
dy'd
of
the
Plague
,
which
would
have
stav'd
off
Company
.
This
is
the
Second
Wife
,
he
has
already
turn'd
over
,
and
(
to
give
the
Man
his
Due
)
He
has
had
the
wit
to
s●cure
him●●elf
of
a
Third
,
while
This
lay
on
her
D●●th-bed
.
So
that
this
Case
is
no
more
then
Chopping
of
a
Cold
Wife
for
a
Warm
one
,
and
Hee
'l
recover
this
Affliction
,
I
warrant
ye
.
The
Good
man
,
methought
,
spoke
wonders
;
and
being
throughly
convinc't
of
the
danger
of
trusting
to
Appearances
,
I
took
up
a
Resolution
,
never
to
conclude
upon
any
thing
,
though
never
so
plausible
,
without
due
Examination
,
and
Inquiry
.
With
that
,
the
Funeral
Vanish't
,
leaving
Us
behind
;
and
for
a
farewell
,
This
Sentence
.
I
am
gone
before
;
you
are
to
follow
;
and
in
the
mean
time
,
to
accompany
others
to
their
Graves
,
as
you
have
done
Me
;
and
as
I
,
when
time
was
,
have
attended
many
others
,
with
as
little
Care
,
and
Devotion
as
your selves
.
We
were
taken
off
from
this
Meditation
,
by
a
Noise
we
heard
in
a
house
behind
Us
;
where
we
had
no
sooner
set
foot
over
the
Threshold
,
but
we
were
entertained
with
a
Consort
of
Six
Voices
,
that
were
Set
and
Tun'd
to
the
Sighs
and
Grones
of
a
Woman
newly
become
a
Widdow
.
The
Passion
was
Acted
to
the
Life
;
but
the
Dead
lit●le
the
better
for
't
.
They
would
be
ever
and
anon
,
Clapping
,
and
Wringing
of
their
Hands
;
Groning
,
and
Sighing
,
as
if
their
Hearts
would
break
.
The
Hangings
,
Pictures
,
and
Furniture
were
all
taken
down
,
and
remov'd
;
The
Rooms
hung
with
Black
,
And
in
one
of
them
lay
the
poor
Disconsolate
,
upon
a
Couch
with
her
Condoling
Friends
about
her
.
It
was
as
Dark
as
Pitch
,
and
so
much
the
Better
,
for
the
Parts
they
had
to
play
;
for
there
was
no
discovering
of
the
Horrid
Faces
,
and
Strains
they
made
,
to
fetch
up
their
Artificial
Tears
,
and
Lamentations
.
Madam
(
says
one
)
Tears
are
but
thrown
away
;
and
really
the
Grief
to
see
your
Ladyship
in
this
Condition
,
has
made
me
as
lost
a
woman
to
all
thought
of
Comfort
as
your self
:
I
beseech
you
Madam
,
chear
up
;
(
●ryes
another
,
with
almost
as
many
Sighs
as
words
)
your
Husband
's
e'en
happy
that
he
is
out
of
this
miserable
world
.
He
was
a
Good
man
,
and
now
He
finds
the
sweet
on
't
.
Patience
,
Patience
;
Dear
Madam
,
(
cryes
a
Third
)
'T
is
the
will
of
Heaven
,
and
there
's
no
Contending
.
Do'st
talk
of
Patience
(
says
she
)
and
no
Contending
?
Wret●hed
Creature
that
I
am
!
to
out-live
that
Dear
man
!
Oh
that
Dear
Husband
of
Mine
!
Oh
that
I
should
ever
live
to
see
this
Day
!
And
then
she
fell
to
blubbering
,
Sobbing
and
Raving
a
thousand
times
worse
then
before
.
Alas
,
Alas
,
who
will
trouble
himself
with
a
poor
Widdow
!
I
have
never
a
friend
left
to
look
after
me
;
what
shall
become
of
me
!
At
this
pause
,
came
in
the
Chorus
,
with
their
Nose-Instruments
;
and
there
was
such
Blowing
,
Snobbing
,
Sniveling
and
throwing
Snot
about
,
that
there
was
no
enduring
the
House
.
And
all
this
,
you
must
know
,
serv'd
them
to
a
double
purpose
;
that
is
to
say
;
for
Physick
and
for
Complement
:
for
it
past
for
the
Condoling
Office
,
and
purg'd
their
Heads
of
ill
Humours
all
under
one
.
I
could
not
chuse
but
compassionate
the
poor
Widdow
;
a
Creature
forsaken
of
all
the
world
;
and
I
told
my
Guide
as
much
;
and
that
a
Charity
(
as
I
thought
)
would
be
well
bestow'd
upon
her
.
The
Holy
Writ
calls
them
Mutes
;
according
to
the
Import
of
the
Hebrew
:
in
regard
that
they
have
no
body
to
speak
for
them
.
And
if
at
any
time
they
take
heart
to
speak
for
themselves
,
They
had
e'en
as
good
hold
their
tongues
,
for
no
body
minds
them
.
Is
there
any
thing
more
frequently
given
in
Charge
throughout
the
whole
Bible
,
then
to
Protect
the
Fatherless
,
and
Defend
the
Cause
of
the
Widdow
?
as
the
highest
and
most
Necessary
point
of
Christian
Charity
;
in
regard
that
they
have
neither
Power
,
nor
Right
to
defend
themselves
.
Does
not
Iob
in
the
Depth
of
his
Misery
,
and
Disgraces
,
make
Choice
to
clear
himself
toward
the
Widdow
,
upon
his
Expostulations
with
the
Almighty
?
[
If
I
have
caus'd
the
Eyes
of
the
Widdow
to
fail
]
(
or
consum'd
the
Eyes
of
the
Widdow
;
after
the
Hebrew
)
so
that
it
seems
to
me
,
beside
the
general
Duty
of
Charity
,
We
are
also
bound
by
the
Laws
of
Honour
,
and
Generosity
,
to
assist
them
:
for
the
poor
Souls
are
fain
to
plead
with
their
Eyes
;
and
Beg
with
their
Eyes
,
for
want
of
Either
Hands
or
Tongues
to
help
themselves
.
Indeed
you
must
pardon
me
(
My
good
Father
said
I
)
if
I
cannot
hold
any
longer
from
bearing
a
part
in
this
Mournful
Consort
,
upon
this
sad
Occasion
.
And
is
This
(
quoth
the
old
man
)
the
fruit
of
your
boasted
Divinity
?
to
sink
into
Weakness
and
Tears
,
when
you
have
the
greatest
Need
of
your
Resolution
,
and
Prudence
.
Have
but
a
little
Patience
,
and
I
'l
unfold
you
this
Mystery
;
though
(
let
me
tell
ye
)
'T
is
one
of
the
hardest
things
in
Nature
,
to
make
any
man
as
wise
as
he
should
be
,
that
conceits
himself
wise
enough
already
.
If
this
Accident
of
the
Widdow
had
not
happen'd
,
we
had
had
none
of
the
fine
things
,
that
have
been
●tarted
upon
't
:
for
't
is
Occasion
that
awakens
both
our
Virtue
,
and
Philosophy
;
And
't
is
not
enough
to
know
the
Mine
where
the
Treasure
lyes
;
unless
a
man
has
the
skill
of
Drawing
it
out
,
and
making
the
best
of
what
he
has
in
his
Possession
.
What
are
you
the
better
,
for
all
the
Advantages
of
Wit
,
and
Learning
,
without
the
faculty
of
reducing
what
you
know
,
into
apt
and
proper
Applications
?
Observe
me
now
,
and
I
will
shew
you
,
that
this
Widdow
that
looks
as
if
she
had
nothing
in
her
Mouth
,
but
The
Service
for
the
Dead
,
and
only
Hallelujahs
in
her
Soul
;
that
This
Mortify'd
●iece
of
Formality
,
has
green
Thoughts
,
un●●r
her
black-Vail
;
and
Imaginations●bout
●bout
her
,
in
despight
of
her
Calamity
,
●nd
Misfortune
.
The
Chamber
you
see
〈◊〉
dark
;
and
their
faces
are
muffled
up
in
●heir
Funeral
Dresses
.
And
what
of
all
This
?
when
the
whole
Course
of
their
mourning
is
but
a
Thorough-Cheat
.
Their
Weeping
signifies
Nothing
more
,
then
Crying
,
at
so
much
an
hour
;
for
their
Tears
are
Hackney'd
out
,
and
when
they
have
wept
out
their
stage
,
they
take
up
,
and
are
quiet
.
If
you
would
relieve
them
,
leave
them
to
Themselves
;
and
as
soon
as
your
Back
is
turn'd
,
you
shall
have
them
Singing
,
and
Dancing
▪
and
as
merry
as
Greeks
:
for
take
away
the
Spectators
;
their
Hypocrisy
is
at
an
End
,
and
the
play
is
done
:
And
now
the
Confidents
Game
begins
.
Come
,
Come
,
Madam
,
'faith
we
must
be
Merry
;
(
cryes
one
)
we
are
to
live
by
the
Living
,
and
not
by
the
Dead
.
For
a
Bonny
Young
Widdow
as
you
are
,
to
lye
whimpering
away
your
Opportunities
,
and
lose
so
many
brave
Matches
!
There
's
,
You
know
who
,
I
dare
swear
,
has
a
Months
Mind
to
you
;
By
my
Troth
I
would
you
were
in
Bed
together
,
and
I
'd
be
hang'd
,
if
you
did
not
find
one
warm
Bed-fellow
worth
twenty
Cold
ones
.
Really
,
Madam
(
cryes
a
second
)
she
gives
you
good
Counsel
;
and
if
I
were
in
your
Place
,
I
'd
follow
it
,
and
make
use
of
my
Time
.
'T
is
but
One
Lost
,
and
Ten
found
.
Pray'e
tell
me
,
Madam
,
If
I
may
be
so
bold
;
what
's
your
Opinion
of
that
Cavalier
that
was
here
Yesterday
?
Certainly
He
has
a
great
Deal
of
Wit
;
and
methinks
,
he
's
a
very
handsome
,
proper
Gentleman
.
Well!
If
that
man
has
not
a
strange
Passion
for
you
,
I
'l
never
believe
my
Eyes
again
for
his
sake
;
and
,
in
good
faith
,
if
all
parties
were
agreed
,
I
would
you
were
e'en
well
in
his
Arms
the
night
before
to
morrow
.
Were
it
not
a
burning
shame
to
let
such
a
Beauty
lye
fallow
?
This
sets
the
Widdow
a
Pinking
,
and
Simpering
like
a
Frumety-Kettle
;
at
length
she
makes
up
the
pretty
little
Mouth
,
and
sayes
,
't
is
somewhat
of
the
soonest
to
talk
of
those
affairs
;
but
let
it
be
as
Heaven
pleases
.
However
,
Madam
,
I
am
much
beholden
to
you
for
your
Friendly
Advice
.
You
have
here
the
very
bottom
of
her
Sorrow
:
she
has
taken
a
second
Husband
into
her
Heart
,
before
her
first
was
in
his
●rave
.
I
should
have
told
you
,
that
〈◊〉
right
Widdow
,
Eats
,
and
Drinks
●ore
the
first
day
of
her
Widdow-hood
,
●●en
in
any
other
of
her
whole
life
:
for
●here
appears
not
a
Visitant
;
but
pre●ently
out
comes
the
Groning
Cake
;
a
●old
bak'd
meat
,
or
some
Restorative
●orsel
or
Other
,
to
comfort
the
Afflicted
;
●nd
the
Cordial
Bottles
must
not
be
forgotten
neither
,
for
Sorrow's
Dry.
So
●o't
they
fall
,
and
at
every
Bit
or
Gulp
,
●he
Lady
Relict
,
fetches
ye
up
a
heavy
Sigh
,
pretends
to
chew
false
,
and
makes
●rotestation
that
for
her
part
,
she
can
●aste
nothing
;
she
has
quite
lost
her
Digestion
;
and
has
such
an
oppression
●n
her
stomach
,
that
she
dares
not
eat
●ny
more
,
for
fear
of
over-charging
Nature
.
And
(
in
truth
says
she
)
how
●an
it
be
otherwise
;
since
(
Unhappy
●reature
that
I
am
!
)
He
is
gone
that
gave
the
Relish
to
all
my
Enjoyments
:
But
there
is
no
Recalling
him
from
the
Grave
,
and
so
,
no
remedy
but
Patience
.
By
this
time
,
you
see
,
(
quoth
the
Old
Man
)
whether
your
Exclamations
were
●easonable
,
or
no.
The
w●rds
were
h●rdly
out
of
his
Mouth
,
when
hearing
an
uproar
amon●
the
Rabble
in
the
Street
,
we
look't
ou●
to
see
what
was
the
matter
.
And
ther●
we
saw
a
Catchpole
,
without
either
Hat●
or
Band
,
out
of
Breath
,
and
his
face
al●
bloody
,
crying
out
Help
,
Help
,
in
th●
King's
name
;
stop
Thief
,
stop
Thief
:
and
all
the
while
,
running
as
hard
as
he
could
drive
after
a
Thief
that
made
away
from
him
,
as
if
the
Devil
had
been
at
his
Breech
.
After
him
,
cam●
an
Atturney
,
all
dirty
;
a
world
of
papers
in
his
hand
;
an
Inkhorn
at
his
Girdle
;
and
a
Crowd
of
Nasty
people
about
him
;
and
down
He
sat
himself
just
before
us
,
to
write
somewhat
upon
his
Knee
.
Bless
me
(
thought
I
)
how
a
Cause
prospers
in
the
Hand
of
one
of
these
fellows
,
for
he
had
fill'd
his
Paper
in
a
Trice
.
These
Catchpoles
(
said
I
)
had
need
to
be
well
paid
,
for
the
Hazards
they
run
to
secure
us
in
our
Lives
and
Fortunes
;
and
indeed
they
deserve
it
.
Look
how
the
poor
Wretch
is
Torn
,
Bruis'd
and
Batter'd
,
and
all
this
for
the
Good
and
Benefit
of
the
Publick
.
Soft
and
fair
,
quoth
the
old
man
;
I
think
thou
wouldst
never
leave
Talking
,
if
I
did
not
stop
thy
Mouth
sometime
.
You
must
know
,
that
He
that
made
the
Escape
,
and
the
Catchpole
are
a
Couple
of
Ancient
Friends
,
and
Pot-Companions
.
Now
the
Catchpole
quarrels
the
Thief
for
not
giving
him
a
snip
in
the
last
Booty
;
and
the
Thief
,
after
a
great
struggle
,
and
a
good
lusty
Rubber
at
Cuffs
,
has
made
a
shift
to
save
himself
.
You
'l
say
the
Rogue
had
need
of
Good
heels
,
to
outrun
this
Gallows-Beagle
;
for
there
's
hardly
any
Beast
will
outstrip
a
Bayliff
that
runs
upon
the
View
of
a
Quarry
.
So
that
there
's
not
the
least
thought
of
a
publick
Good
in
the
Catchpoles
Action
;
but
meerly
a
prosecution
of
his
own
Profit
,
and
a
spight
to
see
himself
Chous'd
.
Now
if
the
Catchpole
I
confess
,
without
any
Private
Interest
,
had
made
this
Attempt
upon
the
Thief
,
(
being
his
Friend
)
to
bring
him
to
Iustice
;
It
had
been
well
:
And
yet
,
take
this
along
with
you
:
It
is
as
Natural
to
let
slip
a
Sergeant
at
a
Pick-pocket
,
as
a
Greyhound
at
a
Hare
.
The
Whip
;
The
Pillory
;
The
Axe
,
and
the
Halter
make
up
the
best
part
of
the
Catchpole's
Revenue
.
These
people
are
of
all
sorts
the
most
odious
to
the
world
;
and
if
men
in
Revenge
would
resolve
to
be
Virtuous
,
though
but
for
a
year
or
two
,
they
might
starve
them
all
.
It
is
in
fine
an
unlucky
Employment
,
and
Catchpoles
,
as
well
the
Devils
themselves
have
the
Wages
of
Tormenters
.
I
hope
,
said
I
to
my
Guide
,
that
the
Atturneys
shall
have
your
good
word
too
.
Yes
,
yes
,
ye
need
not
doubt
it
(
said
the
old
man
)
for
your
Atturny
,
and
your
Catchpole
always
hunt
in
Couples
.
The
Atturny
draws
the
Information
,
and
has
all
his
forms
ready
,
so
that
't
is
no
more
then
,
but
to
fill
up
the
Blanks
,
and
away
to
the
Iayl
with
the
Delinquent
:
if
there
be
any
thing
to
be
gotten
't
is
not
a
half-penny
matter
,
whether
the
party
be
guilty
,
or
Innocent
:
Give
but
an
Atturny
,
Pen
,
Ink
,
and
Paper
,
and
let
him
alone
for
Witnesses
.
In
case
of
an
Examination
,
he
has
the
Grace
not
to
insist
too
much
upon
plain
and
Naked
Truth
;
but
to
set
down
only
what
makes
for
his
purpose
,
and
then
when
they
come
to
signing
,
to
read
over
in
the
Depone●ts
sense
(
for
his
Memory
is
good
)
what
he
has
written
in
his
own
:
And
by
this
Means
,
the
Cause
goes
on
as
He
pleases
.
To
prevent
this
Villany
it
we●e
well
,
if
the
Examiners
were
as
well
sworn
to
write
the
Truth
,
as
the
Witnesses
are
to
speak
it
.
And
yet
there
are
some
honest
men
of
all
sorts
,
but
among
the
Atturneys
;
the
very
Calling
,
does
by
the
honest
Catchpoles
,
Marshal's
men
,
and
their
Fellows
,
as
the
Sea
by
the
Dead
:
It
may
Entertain
them
for
a
while
,
but
in
a
very
short
space
it
spews
them
up
again
.
The
Good
man
would
have
proceeded
,
if
He
had
not
been
taken
off
,
by
the
Ratling
of
a
Guilt-Coach
,
wherein
was
a
Courtier
,
that
was
blown
up
as
big
,
as
Pride
,
and
Vanity
could
make
him
.
He
sat
stiffe
,
and
Upright
,
as
if
He
had
swallow'd
a
stake
;
and
made
it
his
Glory
to
shew
himself
in
that
posture
.
It
would
have
hurt
his
Eyes
,
to
have
exchang'd
a
Glance
with
any
thing
that
was
Vulgar
,
and
therefore
He
was
very
sparing
of
his
Looks
.
He
had
a
deep
lac'd-band
on
,
that
was
right
Spanish
;
which
He
wore
Erect
,
and
stiffe
starch't
,
that
a
man
would
have
thought
He
had
Carry'd
his
Head
in
a
paper-Lanthorn
.
He
was
a
great
Studier
of
Set-faces
;
and
much
affected
with
looking
Politick
,
and
Big
.
But
,
for
his
Arms
,
and
Body
,
He
had
utterly
lost
,
or
forgotten
the
use
of
them
:
For
He
could
neither
Bow
,
nor
move
his
Hat
to
any
man
that
saluted
him
:
No
,
nor
so
much
as
turn
from
One
side
to
the
Other
;
but
sate
as
if
He
had
been
Box'd
up
,
like
a
Bartlemy-Baby
.
After
this
Magnificent
Statue
,
follow'd
a
swarm
of
Gawdy
Butterfly-Laquais
:
And
his
Lordships
Company
in
the
Coach
,
was
a
Buffon
,
and
a
Parasite
.
Oh
blessed
Prince
!
(
said
I
)
to
live
at
this
rate
of
Ease
,
and
splendor
,
and
to
have
the
world
at
Will
!
What
a
Glorious
Train
is
that
!
Beyond
all
doubt
,
there
never
was
a
great
Fortune
better
bestow'd
.
With
that
,
the
old
man
took
me
up
,
and
told
me
;
that
the
Judgment
I
had
made
upon
this
Occasion
,
from
one
end
to
the
other
,
was
all
Dotage
,
and
Mistake
;
save
only
,
when
I
said
he
had
the
world
at
Will
:
And
in
that
(
says
he
)
you
have
reason
;
for
what
is
the
World
,
but
Labour
,
Vanity
,
and
Folly
;
which
is
likewise
the
Composition
,
and
Entertainment
of
this
Cavalier
.
As
for
the
Train
that
follows
him
;
let
it
be
Examin'd
,
and
my
Life
for
yours
,
you
shall
find
more
Creditors
in
't
,
then
Servants
:
There
are
Banquiers
,
Iewellers
,
Scriveners
,
Brokers
,
Mercers
,
Drapers
,
Taylors
,
Vintners
;
and
these
are
properly
the
Stayes
,
and
Supporters
of
this
Animated
Machine
.
The
Money
,
Meat
,
Drink
,
Robes
,
Liveries
,
Wages
;
All
comes
out
of
their
Pockets
;
They
have
his
Honour
for
their
Security
;
and
must
content
themselves
with
Promises
,
and
fair
Words
for
full
satisfaction
,
unless
they
had
rather
have
a
Foot-man
with
a
Cudgel
for
their
Pay-master
.
And
after
all
,
i●
this
Gallant
were
taken
to
shrift
,
or
that
a
man
could
enter
into
the
Secrets
of
his
Conscience
,
I
dare
undertake
,
it
would
appear
,
that
He
that
digs
in
a
Mine
for
his
Bread
,
lives
ten
thousand
times
more
at
Ease
,
then
the
other
;
with
Beating
of
his
Brains
,
Night
and
Day
for
new
shifts
,
Tricks
and
Projects
to
keep
himself
above
water
.
Observe
his
Companions
now
:
his
Fool
,
and
his
Flatterer
.
They
are
too
hard
for
him
ye
see
;
and
Eat
,
Drink
,
and
make
Merry
at
his
Expence
.
What
greater
Misery
,
or
shame
in
the
World
,
then
for
a
Man
to
make
a
Friendship
with
such
Rascals
,
and
to
spend
his
Time
,
and
Estate
,
in
so
Brutal
,
and
Insipid
a
Society
!
It
costs
him
more
(
beside
his
Credit
)
to
maintain
that
Couple
of
Coxcombs
,
then
would
have
bought
him
the
Conversation
of
as
many
Grave
,
and
learned
Philosophers
.
But
will
ye
now
see
the
Bottom
of
this
Scandalous
and
Dishonorable
Kindness
?
My
Lord
(
says
the
Buffon
)
you
were
most
infallibly
wrapt
in
your
Mother's
Smock
;
for
let
me
be
—
if
ye
have
not
set
all
the
Ladies
about
the
Court
,
Agog
.
The
very
Truth
is
(
cryes
the
Parasite
)
all
the
rest
of
the
Nobility
look
like
Corn-Cutters
to
you
;
and
indeed
,
wherever
you
come
you
have
still
the
Eyes
of
the
whole
Company
upon
you
.
Go
to
,
Go
to
,
Gentlemen
(
●ays
my
Lord
)
you
must
not
flatter
your
Friends
.
This
is
more
your
Courtesy
then
my
Desert
;
and
I
have
an
Obligation
to
you
for
your
Kindness
.
After
this
Manner
,
these
Asses
Knab
and
Curry
one
Another
,
and
play
the
Fools
by
Turns
.
The
old
Man
had
his
words
yet
between
his
Teeth
,
when
there
past
just
by
us
a
Lady
of
Pleasure
,
of
so
Excellent
a
shape
,
and
Garb
,
that
it
was
Impossible
to
see
her
without
a
Passion
for
her
,
and
no
less
impossible
to
look
upon
any
thing
else
,
so
long
as
she
was
to
be
seen
.
They
that
had
seen
her
once
,
were
to
see
her
no
more
,
for
she
turn'd
her
face
still
to
New-Comers
.
Her
Motion
was
graceful
,
and
Free
.
One
while
she
'd
stare
ye
full
in
the
Eyes
,
under
colour
of
opening
her
Hood
,
to
set
it
in
better
Order
.
By
and
by
,
shee
'd
steal
a
look
at
ye
with
one
Eye
,
and
a
side
face
,
from
the
Corner
of
her
Vizor
;
like
a
Witch
that
's
afraid
to
be
discover'd
,
when
she
comes
from
a
Catterwall
.
And
then
out
comes
the
Delicate
Hand
,
and
discovers
the
more
Delicious
Neck
,
and
Breasts
,
to
adjust
the
Handkercher
or
the
Scarfe
;
or
to
remove
some
other
Grievance
that
made
her
Ladyship
uneasy
.
Her
Hair
was
most
arti●icially
dispos'd
into
Careless
Rings
;
And
the
best
Red
and
White
in
Nature
was
in
her
Cheeks
;
if
that
of
her
Lips
and
Teeth
did
not
Exceed
it
.
In
a
word
,
all
she
look't
upon
was
her
own
;
and
This
was
the
Vision
for
my
Money
,
from
all
the
Rest.
As
she
was
marching
off
,
I
could
not
chuse
but
take
up
a
Resolution
to
follow
her
.
But
my
old
man
laid
a
Block
in
the
way
,
and
stop't
me
at
the
very
starting
;
which
was
an
Affront
,
to
a
Man
that
was
both
in
Love
,
and
in
Haste
,
that
might
very
well
stir
his
Choler
.
My
Officious
Friend
(
said
I
)
He
that
does
not
love
a
Woman
,
suck't
a
Sow
.
And
questionless
,
He
must
be
either
Blind
or
Barbarous
,
that
's
Proof
against
the
Charms
of
so
Divine
a
Beauty
.
Nor
would
any
but
a
Sot
,
let
slip
the
blessed
Opportunity
of
so
fair
an
Encounter
.
A
Handsome
Woman
?
why
,
what
was
she
made
for
,
but
to
be
Lov'd
?
And
He
that
has
Her
,
has
all
that
's
Lovely
,
or
Desireable
in
Nature
.
For
my
own
part
,
I
would
renounce
the
World
for
the
fellow
of
her
,
and
never
desire
any
thing
either
beyond
her
,
or
beside
her
.
What
Lightning
does
she
carry
in
her
Eyes
▪
What
Charms
,
and
Chains
in
her
Looks
,
and
Motions
,
for
the
very
Souls
of
her
Beholders
!
Was
ever
any
thing
so
clear
as
her
forehead
?
Or
so
black
as
her
Eye-brows
?
One
would
swear
,
that
her
Complexion
had
taken
a
Tincture
of
Vermilion
,
and
Milk
:
and
that
Nature
had
brought
her
into
the
World
with
Pearl
,
and
Rubies
in
her
Mouth
.
To
speak
all
in
little
,
she
's
the
Master-piece
of
the
Creation
,
worthy
of
Infinite
Praise
,
and
Equal
to
our
largest
Desires
.
Here
the
Old
man
cut
me
short
,
and
bad
me
make
an
end
of
my
Discourse
,
for
thou
art
,
said
He
,
a
Man
of
much
wonder
,
and
small
Experience
,
and
deliver'd
over
to
the
Spirit
of
Folly
,
and
Blindness
.
Thou
hast
thy
Eyes
in
thy
Head
,
and
yet
not
Brain
Enough
to
know
either
why
they
were
given
Thee
,
or
How
to
Use
them
.
Understand
then
that
the
Office
of
the
Eye
is
to
see
,
but
't
is
the
Privilege
of
the
Soul
,
to
distinguish
,
and
Chuse
:
whereas
you
either
do
the
Contrary
,
or
else
Nothing
,
which
is
worse
.
He
that
trusts
his
Eyes
,
exposes
his
Mind
to
a
Thousand
Torments
and
Confusions
:
He
shall
take
Clouds
,
for
Mountains
;
Streight
for
Crooked
;
One
Colour
for
Another
,
by
reason
of
an
Vndue
distance
,
or
an
indispos'd
Medium
.
We
are
not
able
sometimes
to
say
what
way
a
River
runs
,
till
we
throw
in
a
Twig
,
or
a
straw
to
find
out
the
Current
.
And
what
will
you
s●y
now
,
if
this
Prodigious
Beauty
,
your
New
Mistress
,
prove
as
Gross
a
Cheat
,
and
Imposture
,
as
any
of
the
Rest
?
She
went
to
Bed
last
night
as
Ugly
as
a
Witch
;
and
yet
this
Morning
she
comes
forth
in
your
Opinion
as
Glorious
as
an
Angel
.
The
Truth
of
it
is
,
she
Hires
all
by
the
Day
;
and
if
you
did
but
see
this
Puppet
taken
to
pieces
,
you
would
find
her
little
else
but
Paint
,
and
Plaister
.
To
begin
her
Anatomy
at
the
Head
.
You
must
know
that
the
Hair
she
wears
,
is
borrow'd
of
a
Tire-woman
,
for
her
own
was
blown
off
by
an
Unlucky
Wind
from
the
Coast
of
Naples
.
Or
if
she
has
any
left
,
she
keeps
it
private
,
as
a
Memorial
of
her
Antiquity
.
She
is
beholden
to
the
Pencil
,
for
her
Eye-brows
,
and
Complexion
.
And
upon
the
whole
mat●er
,
she
is
but
an
old
Picture
,
refresh't
.
But
the
wonder
is
,
to
see
a
Picture
,
with
Life
,
and
Motion
;
unless
perchance
she
has
got
the
Necromancer's
Receit
,
that
made
himself
Young
again
in
his
Glass-Bottle
.
For
all
that
you
see
of
her
that
's
Good
,
comes
from
Distill'd
Waters
,
Essences
,
Powders
,
and
the
like
;
and
to
see
the
Washing
of
her
Face
would
fright
the
Devil
.
She
abounds
in
Pomanders
,
Sweet
waters
,
Spanish-Pockets
,
Perfum'd-Drawers
;
and
all
little
Enough
to
qualify
the
Poysonous
Whiffs
she
sends
from
her
Toes
,
and
Arm-Pits
,
which
would
otherwise
out-stink
Ten
thousand
Pole-Cats
.
She
cannot
chuse
but
Kiss
well
,
for
her
Lips
are
perpetually
bath'd
in
Oyl
,
and
Grease
.
And
he
that
Embraces
her
,
shall
find
the
better
half
of
her
,
the
Taylors
,
and
only
a
stuffing
of
Cotton
and
Canvas
,
to
supply
the
Defects
of
her
Body
.
When
she
goes
to
Bed
,
she
puts
off
one
half
of
her
Person
with
her
Shooes
.
What
do
ye
think
of
your
ador'd
Beauty
now
?
or
have
your
Eyes
betray'd
ye
?
Well
,
well
;
confess
your
Errour
and
mend
it
:
and
know
that
(
without
more
Descant
upon
this
woman
)
't
is
the
Design
,
and
Glory
of
most
of
the
Sex
to
lead
Silly
Men
Captive
.
Nay
take
the
best
of
them
,
and
what
with
the
Trouble
of
getting
them
,
and
the
Difficulty
of
pleasing
them
,
he
that
comes
off
best
,
will
find
himself
a
Loser
at
the
foot
of
the
Accompt
.
I
could
recommend
you
here
to
other
Remedies
of
Love
,
inseparable
from
the
very
Sex
,
but
what
I
have
said
already
,
I
hope
,
will
be
sufficient
.
The
end
of
the
fifth
Vision
.
THE
SIXTH
VISION
OF
HELL
.
BEing
one
Autumn
,
at
a
Friend's
house
in
the
Country
,
(
which
was
indeed
a
most
delicious
Retreat
)
I
took
a
walk
one
Moon-light
into
the
Park
;
where
all
my
past
Visions
came
fresh
into
my
Head
again
,
and
I
was
well
enough
pleas'd
with
the
Meditation
.
At
length
,
the
Humour
●ook
me
to
leave
the
Path
,
and
go
further
into
the
wood
:
what
Impulse
carry'd
me
to
this
,
I
know
not
.
Whether
I
was
mov'd
by
my
good
Angel
,
or
some
higher
Power
,
but
so
it
was
▪
that
in
half
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
I
found
my self
a
great
way
from
home
,
and
in
a
place
where
't
was
no
longer
Night
;
with
the
Pleasantest
Prospect
round
about
me
that
ever
I
saw
since
I
was
born
.
The
Air
was
calm
,
and
Temperate
;
and
it
was
no
small
Advantage
to
the
Beauty
of
the
Place
,
that
it
was
both
Innocent
,
and
Silent
.
On
the
one
hand
,
I
was
entertain'd
with
the
Murmurs
of
Christal
Rivolets
;
On
the
Other
,
with
the
whispering
of
the
Trees
;
The
Birds
singing
all
the
while
either
in
Emulation
,
or
Requital
of
the
Other
Harmonies
.
And
now
,
to
shew
the
Instability
of
our
Affections
,
and
Desires
,
I
was
grown
weary
even
of
Tranquillity
it self
,
and
in
this
most
agreeable
Solitude
,
began
to
long
for
Company
.
When
in
the
very
Instant
,
(
to
my
great
wonder
)
I
discover'd
two
Paths
,
issuing
from
One
,
and
the
same
Begining
;
but
dividing
themselves
forwards
,
more
and
more
,
by
Degrees
,
as
if
they
liked
not
One
Another's
Company
.
That
on
the
right
Hand
was
Narrow
,
almost
beyond
Imagination
;
and
being
very
little
frequented
,
it
was
so
overgrown
with
Thorns
and
Brambles
;
and
so
stony
withal
,
that
a
man
had
all
the
Trouble
in
the
world
to
get
into
't
.
One
might
see
however
,
the
Prints
and
Marks
of
several
Passengers
,
that
had
rubb'd
through
,
though
with
Exceeding
Difficulty
;
for
they
had
left
pieces
of
Heads
,
Arms
,
Legs
,
Feet
,
and
many
of
them
their
whole
skins
behind
them
.
Some
we
saw
yet
upon
the
way
,
pressing
forward
,
without
ever
so
much
as
looking
back
;
and
these
were
all
of
them
Pale-faced
,
Lean
,
Thin
,
and
Miserably
Mortify'd
.
There
was
no
passing
for
Horse-men
;
and
I
was
told
,
that
St.
Paul
himself
left
his
Horse
,
when
He
went
into
't
.
And
indeed
,
there
was
not
the
footing
of
any
Beast
to
be
seen
.
Neither
Horse
,
nor
Mule
;
Nor
the
Track
of
any
Coach
,
or
Charret
.
Nor
could
I
learn
that
any
had
past
that
way
in
the
memory
of
man
.
While
I
was
bethinking
my self
of
what
I
had
seen
,
I
spy'd
at
length
,
a
Beggar
,
that
was
Resting
himself
a
little
to
take
Breath
;
and
I
ask'd
him
what
Inns
or
Lodging
they
had
upon
that
Road
?
His
Answer
was
that
there
was
no
stopping
there
,
till
they
came
to
their
Journey
's
End
.
For
This
(
said
he
)
is
the
way
to
Paradise
,
and
what
should
they
do
with
Inns
or
Taverns
,
where
there
are
so
few
Passengers
?
Do
not
you
know
that
in
the
Course
of
Nature
,
to
Dye
,
is
to
be
Born
;
to
Live
,
is
to
Travel
;
and
the
world
is
but
a
great
Inn
,
after
which
,
it
is
but
one
stage
Either
to
Pain
or
Glory
.
And
with
these
words
he
March'd
forward
,
and
bad
me
God
b'w'y
'
;
telling
me
withal
,
that
it
was
time
lost
to
linger
in
the
way
of
Virtue
,
and
not
safe
to
entertain
such
Dialogues
,
as
tend
rather
to
Curiosity
,
then
Instruction
.
And
so
he
pursued
his
Journey
,
stumbling
,
tearing
his
Flesh
,
and
Sighing
,
and
Groning
at
every
step
;
and
weeping
as
if
he
thought
to
soften
the
stones
with
his
Tears
.
This
is
no
way
for
me
,
thought
I
to
my self
;
and
no
Company
Neither
;
for
they
are
a
sort
of
Beggarly
,
Morose
people
,
and
will
never
agree
with
my
Humour
.
So
I
drew
back
and
strook
off
into
the
left
hand
way
.
And
there
I
found
Company
Enough
,
and
Room
for
more
.
What
a
world
of
Brave
Cavaliers
!
Guilt
Coaches
,
Rich
Liveries
,
and
handsome
,
Lively
Lasses
,
as
Glorious
as
the
Sun
!
Some
were
Singing
,
and
Laughing
;
Others
tickling
One
another
,
and
Toying
;
Some
again
,
at
their
Cheese-Cakes
and
China-Orenges
;
Or
appointing
a
Set
at
Cards
:
so
that
taking
all
together
,
I
durst
have
sworn
I
had
been
at
the
Park
.
This
minded
me
of
the
Old
saying
,
Tell
me
thy
Company
,
and
I
'l
tell
thee
thy
Manners
:
and
to
save
the
Credit
of
my
Education
,
I
put
my self
into
the
Noble
Mode
,
and
Jogg'd
on
.
And
there
was
I
at
the
first
Dash
up
to
the
Ears
,
in
Balls
,
Playes
,
Mascarades
,
Collations
,
Dalliances
,
Amours
,
and
as
full
of
Joy
as
my
Heart
could
hold
.
It
was
not
here
,
as
upon
t'other
Rode
,
where
folks
went
bare-foot
,
and
Naked
,
for
want
of
Shoo-makers
,
and
Taylors
:
for
here
were
Enow
,
and
to
spare
;
Beside
Mercers
,
Drapers
,
Iewellers
,
Bodyes-makers
,
Perruque-makers
,
Milleners
,
and
a
French
Ordinary
at
every
other
Door
.
You
cannot
imagine
the
Pleasure
I
took
in
my
New
Acquaintance
;
And
yet
there
was
now
and
then
,
some
Justling
and
Disorder
upon
the
way
;
Chiefly
between
the
Physicians
upon
their
Mules
,
and
the
Infantry
of
the
Lawyers
,
that
march't
in
great
Bodies
before
the
Iudges
;
and
contested
for
Place
.
But
the
Physicians
carry'd
it
,
in
favour
of
their
Charter
,
which
gives
them
Privilege
,
to
Study
,
Practise
,
and
Teach
the
Art
of
Poysoning
;
and
to
read
Lectures
of
it
in
the
Vniversities
.
While
this
point
of
Honour
was
in
dispute
,
I
perceiv'd
divers
crossing
from
one
way
to
the
Other
,
and
changing
of
parties
.
Some
of
them
stumbled
,
and
Recover'd
;
Others
fell
down
right
.
But
the
pleasantest
Gambole
of
all
,
was
that
of
the
Vintners
.
A
whole
Litter
of
them
tumbled
into
a
Pit
together
,
one
over
another
,
but
finding
they
were
out
of
their
Element
,
they
got
up
again
as
fast
as
they
could
.
Those
that
were
in
the
right
hand
way
,
which
was
the
way
of
Paradise
,
or
Virtue
,
advanc'd
very
heavily
,
and
made
us
Excellent
sport
.
Prethee
look
what
a
Friday-face
that
fellow
makes
!
cryes
one
;
Hang
him
,
Prick-Ear'd
Cur
,
says
another
;
Dam
'
me
cryes
a
Third
,
if
the
Rogue
be
not
Drunk
with
Holy
water
;
If
the
Devil
h●d
raked
Hell
,
he
could
not
have
found
such
a
Pack
of
Ill-lookt
Rascals
,
sayes
Another
.
Some
of
them
stop't
their
Ears
,
and
went
on
without
minding
us
.
Others
we
put
out
of
Countenance
,
and
they
came
over
to
us
.
And
a
Third
sort
came
out
of
pure
Love
to
our
Company
.
After
this
,
I
observ'd
a
great
many
People
a
far
off
in
a
By-path
:
with
as
much
Contrition
,
and
Devotion
,
in
their
Looks
,
and
Gestures
as
ever
I
saw
in
Men.
They
walk'd
shaking
their
Heads
,
and
lifting
up
their
hands
to
Heaven
;
and
they
had
most
of
them
large
Ears
,
and
to
my
thinking
Geneva-Bibles
.
These
thought
I
,
are
a
People
of
singular
Integrity
,
and
strictness
of
Life
,
above
their
Fellows
;
but
coming
nearer
,
we
found
them
to
be
Hypocrites
;
and
that
though
they
'd
none
of
our
Company
upon
the
Road
,
They
would
not
fail
to
meet
us
at
our
Iourney
's
End
.
Fasting
,
Repentance
,
Prayer
,
Mortification
,
and
other
Holy
Duties
,
which
are
the
Exercise
of
Good
Christians
,
in
Order
to
their
Salvation
,
are
but
a
Kind
of
Probation
to
these
men
,
to
fit
them
for
the
Devil
.
They
were
follow'd
by
a
Number
of
Devotes
,
and
Holy
Sisters
;
that
Kiss't
the
Skirts
of
their
Garments
all
the
way
they
went
,
but
whether
out
of
Zeal
,
Spiritual
,
or
Natural
,
is
hard
to
say
;
and
undoubtedly
,
some
Women's
Kisses
are
worse
then
Iudass●es
.
For
though
his
Kiss
was
Treacherous
in
the
Intention
,
it
was
right
yet
in
the
Application
:
but
This
was
one
Iudas
Kissing
Another
,
which
makes
me
think
there
was
more
of
the
Flesh
,
then
of
the
Spirit
in
the
Case
.
Some
would
be
drawing
a
Thred
now
and
then
out
of
the
Holyman's
Garment
,
to
make
a
Relique
of
.
Others
would
cut
out
large
Snips
,
as
if
they
had
a
Mind
to
see
them
Naked
▪
Some
again
desir'd
they
would
remember
them
in
their
Prayers
;
which
was
just
as
much
as
if
they
had
commended
themselves
to
the
Devil
by
a
Third
Person
.
Some
Pray'd
for
good
Matches
for
their
Daughters
;
Others
,
beg'd
Children
for
themselves
:
And
sure
the
Husband
that
allows
his
Wife
to
ask
Children
abroad
,
will
be
so
Civil
as
to
take
them
Home
,
when
they
are
given
him
.
In
fine
,
these
Hypocrites
may
for
a
while
perchance
impose
upon
the
world
,
and
Delude
the
Multitude
;
but
no
Mask
,
or
Disguise
is
proof
against
the
all-piercing
Eye
of
the
Almighty
.
There
are
I
must
confess
many
Religious
,
and
Godly
men
,
for
whose
Persons
and
Prayers
,
I
have
a
great
Esteem
.
But
these
are
not
of
the
Hypocrites
Humour
,
to
build
their
Hopes
,
and
Ambition
upon
Popular
applause
,
and
with
a
Counterfeit
Humility
,
to
proclaim
their
Weakness
,
and
Unworthiness
;
their
Failings
;
Yea
and
their
Transgressions
in
the
Market
place
;
All
which
is
indeed
but
a
True
Iest
;
for
they
are
really
what
they
say
,
though
they
would
not
be
thought
so
.
These
went
apart
,
and
were
look't
upon
to
be
neither
Fish
,
nor
Flesh
;
nor
Good
Red-Herring
.
They
wore
the
Name
of
Christians
;
but
they
had
neither
the
wit
,
nor
the
honesty
of
Pagans
.
For
they
content
themselves
with
the
Pleasures
of
this
Life
,
because
they
know
no
better
.
But
the
Hypocrite
,
that
's
instructed
both
in
the
Life
Temporal
,
and
Eternal
,
lives
without
either
Comfort
in
the
One
,
or
Hope
in
the
Other
;
and
takes
more
pains
to
be
damn'd
,
then
a
Good
Christian
does
to
Compass
his
Salvation
.
In
short
,
we
went
on
our
way
in
Discourses
.
The
Rich
follow'd
their
Wealth
,
and
the
poor
the
Rich
;
begging
there
,
what
Providence
had
deny'd
them
.
The
Stubborn
,
and
Obstinate
went
away
by
Themselves
,
for
they
would
hear
no
Body
that
was
wiser
then
themselves
,
but
ran
hudling
on
,
and
prest
still
to
be
foremost
.
The
Magistrates
drew
after
them
,
all
the
Sollicitors
,
and
Atturneys
.
Corrupt
Iudges
were
carry'd
away
by
Passion
,
and
Avarice
.
And
Vain
,
and
Ambitious
Princes
,
trayl'd
along
with
them
,
Principalities
,
and
Common-wealths
.
There
were
a
world
of
Clergy
upon
this
Rode
too
.
And
I
saw
one
full
Regiment
of
Souldiers
there
,
which
would
have
been
brave
Fellows
indeed
,
if
they
had
but
been
half
so
good
at
Praying
,
and
Fighting
,
as
they
were
at
Swearing
.
Their
whole
discourse
was
of
their
Adventures
,
How
Narrowly
they
came
off
at
such
an
Assault
;
What
wounds
they
receiv'd
upon
t'other
Breach
;
and
then
what
a
Destruction
they
made
at
such
a
time
,
of
Mutton
,
and
Poultry
.
But
all
they
said
,
came
in
at
one
Ear
,
and
went
out
at
t'other
.
Do'n't
you
remember
,
Sirrah
,
sayes
one
,
how
we
claw'd
it
away
at
such
a
Place
!
Yes
,
ye
Damn'd
Rogue
you
,
cryes
t'other
,
when
you
were
so
drunk
you
took
your
Aunt
for
the
Bawd
.
These
and
such
as
these
were
the
Only
Exploits
they
could
truly
brag
of
.
While
they
were
upon
these
Glorious
Rhodomontades
,
certain
generous
Spirits
from
the
Right
Hand
way
,
that
knew
what
they
were
,
by
the
Boxes
of
Pass-ports
,
Testimonials
,
and
Recommendations
they
wore
at
their
Girdles
,
cry'd
out
to
them
,
as
if
it
had
been
to
an
Attacque
:
Fall
on
,
Fall
on
,
my
Lads
,
and
Follow
me
.
This
,
This
is
the
Path
of
Honour
,
and
if
you
were
not
Poultrons
you
would
not
quit
it
for
fear
of
a
Hard
March
,
or
an
ill
Lodging
.
Courage
Camerades
;
and
be
assur'd
,
that
this
Combat
well
fought
,
makes
all
your
Fortunes
,
and
Crowns
ye
for
ever
.
Here
,
ye
shall
be
sure
both
of
Pay
,
and
Reward
,
without
casting
the
Issue
of
all
your
Hazzards
,
and
Hopes
upon
the
Empty
Promises
of
Princes
.
How
long
will
ye
pursue
this
Trade
of
Blood
and
Rapine
?
And
Ac●us●om
your
Ears
,
and
tongues
to
the
Tragical
out-cryes
of
,
Burn
;
No
Quarter
;
Kill
,
or
Dye
.
It
is
not
pay
,
or
Pillage
,
but
Virtue
that
's
a
Brave
man's
Recompence
.
Trust
to
her
,
and
shee
'l
not
deceive
ye
.
If
it
be
the
War
,
ye
Love
,
Come
to
Vs
;
Bear
Arms
on
the
right
side
,
and
wee
'l
find
you
work
.
Do
not
you
know
,
that
Man's
Life
is
a
Warfare
?
That
the
World
,
the
Flesh
,
and
the
Devil
,
are
Three
Vigilant
Enemies
?
And
that
it
is
as
much
as
his
Soul
is
worth
,
to
put
himself
,
but
for
one
Minute
out
of
his
Guard
.
Princes
tell
ye
,
that
your
Bloods
,
and
your
Lives
are
Theirs
,
and
that
to
shed
the
One
,
and
lose
the
Other
,
in
their
Service
,
is
no
Obligation
,
but
a
Duty
.
You
are
still
however
to
look
to
the
Cause
;
Wherefore
turn
head
,
and
come
along
with
us
,
and
be
happy
.
The
Souldiers
heard
all
this
with
Exceeding
Patience
,
and
Attention
:
But
the
Brand
of
Cowardice
had
such
an
effect
upon
them
,
that
without
any
more
ado
,
like
men
of
Honour
,
they
presently
quitted
the
Rode
;
Drew
;
and
as
bold
as
Lyons
,
charg'd
headlong
into
a
Tavern
.
After
this
,
we
saw
a
great
Troop
of
Women
upon
the
High-way
to
Hell
,
with
their
Bags
;
and
their
fellows
,
at
their
Heels
,
ever
,
and
anon
,
hunching
,
and
Justling
one
Another
.
On
the
other
side
;
A
number
of
Good
people
,
that
were
almost
at
the
End
of
their
Journey
,
came
over
into
the
wrong
Rode
;
for
the
Right-hand
way
,
growing
Easier
,
and
Wider
toward
the
End
,
and
that
on
the
left
hand
,
on
the
Contrary
,
Narrower
,
they
thought
they
had
been
out
of
their
way
,
and
so
came
in
to
Vs
;
As
many
of
Ours
,
went
over
to
Them
,
upon
the
same
Mistake
.
Among
the
Rest
,
I
saw
a
great
Lady
,
without
either
Coach
,
Sedan
,
or
any
living
Creature
with
her
,
foot
it
all
the
way
to
Hell
:
which
was
to
me
so
great
a
wonder
,
considering
how
she
had
liv'd
in
the
world
,
that
I
presently
look't
about
for
a
Publick
Notary
,
to
make
an
Entry
of
it
.
The
Woman
was
in
a
most
Miserable
Pickle
;
and
I
did
not
know
what
design
she
might
Drive
on
,
under
that
Disguise
;
but
finding
never
a
Notary
,
or
Register
at
hand
,
though
I
mist
my
Particular
Aim
,
yet
I
was
well
Enough
pleas'd
with
it
,
for
I
took
it
then
for
Granted
that
I
was
in
my
Ready
way
to
Heaven
.
But
when
I
came
afterward
to
reflect
upon
the
Crosses
,
Afflictions
and
Mortifications
,
that
lye
in
the
way
to
Paradise
:
And
to
Consider
,
that
there
was
Nothing
of
That
upon
this
Rode
.
But
on
the
Contrary
,
Laughing
,
Singing
,
Frollicking
,
and
all
manner
of
Iollity
:
This
I
must
confess
,
gave
me
a
Qualm
,
and
made
me
a
little
doubtful
whither
I
was
going
.
But
I
was
quickly
deliver'd
of
that
Doubt
,
by
a
Gang
of
Marry'd
Men
,
that
we
overtook
,
with
their
Wives
in
their
Hands
,
in
Evidence
of
their
Mortifications
:
My
Wife
's
my
Witness
(
cryes
one
)
that
every
day
since
I
marry'd
her
has
been
a
Fasting
day
to
me
;
To
Pamper
her
with
Cock-Broth
,
and
Iellyes
.
And
my
Wife
knows
how
I
have
humbled
my
Body
,
by
Nakedness
;
for
I
have
hardly
allow'd
my self
a
Rag
to
my
Back-side
;
or
a
Shoe
to
my
Foot
,
to
maintain
her
in
her
Coach
,
Pages
,
Gowns
,
Petty-Coats
,
and
Iewels
.
So
that
upon
the
matter
,
I
pe●ceive
an
Vnlucky
hit
with
a
Wife
,
gives
a
Man
as
much
Right
to
the
Catalogue
of
Ma●tyrs
,
as
if
He
h●d
ended
his
Dayes
at
the
stake
.
The
Misery
these
poor
Wretches
endur'd
,
made
me
think
my self
in
the
Right
again
;
till
I
heard
a
Cry
behind
me
,
Make
Way
there
;
Make
Way
for
the
'Pothcearies
.
Bless
me
,
thought
I
,
If
They
be
here
we
are
certainly
going
to
the
Devil
.
And
so
it
prov'd
,
for
we
were
just
then
come
to
a
little
Door
,
that
was
made
like
a
Mouse-Trap
,
where
't
was
Easy
to
get
in
,
but
there
was
no
getting
out
again
.
It
was
a
strange
thing
,
that
scarce
any
body
so
much
as
Dream't
of
Hell
,
all
the
way
we
went
;
and
yet
every
body
knew
where
they
were
,
as
soon
as
they
came
there
:
and
cry'd
out
with
one
Voice
,
Miserable
Creatures
!
we
are
Damn'd
,
we
are
Damn'd
.
That
Word
made
my
Heart
Ake
;
And
is
it
come
to
that
then
?
said
I.
I
began
then
with
Tears
in
my
Eyes
,
to
Reflect
upon
what
I
had
left
in
the
World
,
As
my
Relations
,
Friends
,
Ladyes
,
Mistre●●es
,
and
in
●ine
,
all
my
Old
Acquaintance
:
When
with
a
Heavy
Sigh
,
looking
behind
m●
,
I
saw
the
greater
part
of
them
Po●●ing
af●●r
me
.
It
gave
me
,
me
thoug●t
,
s●me
Comfort
,
that
I
sh●uld
have
so
good
Company
;
vainly
imagining
that
even
Hell
it self
might
be
Capable
of
some
Relief
.
Going
further
on
;
I
was
gotten
into
a
Crowd
of
Taylors
,
that
stood
up
sneaking
in
a
Corner
,
for
fear
of
the
Devils
.
At
the
first
Door
,
there
was
Seven
Devils
,
taking
the
Names
of
those
that
Came
in
:
and
they
ask't
me
mine
,
and
my
Quality
,
and
so
they
let
me
pass
.
But
examining
the
Taylors
;
These
fellows
(
cry'd
one
of
the
Devils
)
come
in
such
shoals
,
as
if
Hell
were
made
only
for
Taylors
.
How
many
are
they
?
(
says
another
)
Answer
was
made
,
about
a
Hundred
.
About
a
Hundred
?
They
must
be
more
then
a
Hundred
,
says
t'other
,
if
they
be
Taylors
;
for
they
never
come
u●der
a
Thousand
,
or
Twelve
hundred
st●ong
.
And
we
have
so
many
here
already
I
do
not
know
where
we
shall
'stow
them
.
Say
the
word
,
my
Masters
,
shall
's
let
them
in
or
no
?
the
poor
Prick-Lice
were
damn'dly
startled
at
that
,
for
fear
they
should
not
get
in
:
but
in
the
End
,
they
had
the
Favour
to
be
admitted
.
Certainly
,
said
I
,
these
folks
are
but
in
an
ill
Condition
,
when
't
is
a
Menace
for
the
Devils
themselves
to
refuse
to
receive
them
:
Thereupon
,
a
Huge
,
over-grown
,
Club-footed
,
Crump-shoulder'd
Devil
,
threw
them
all
into
a
Deep
Hole
.
Seeing
such
a
Monster
of
a
Devil
,
I
ask't
him
,
how
He
came
to
be
so
deform'd
.
And
He
told
me
,
He
had
spoyl'd
his
Back
with
Carrying
of
Taylors
:
for
said
he
,
I
have
been
formerly
made
use
of
as
a
Sumpter
to
fetch
them
;
but
now
of
late
they
save
me
that
Labour
,
and
come
so
fast
of
themselves
,
that
't
is
one
Devils
work
to
dispose
of
them
.
While
the
word
was
yet
speaking
,
there
came
Another
Glut
of
them
,
and
I
was
fain
to
make
way
,
that
the
Devil
might
have
Room
to
work
in
,
who
pil'd
them
up
,
and
told
me
they
made
the
best
Fewel
in
Hell
.
I
pass'd
forward
then
into
a
little
Dark
Ally
,
where
it
made
me
start
to
hear
one
call
me
by
my
Name
,
and
with
much
ado
I
perceiv'd
a
fellow
there
all
wrapt
up
in
Smoke
,
and
Flame
.
Alas
!
Sir
s●ys
he
;
Have
you
forgotten
your
old
Book-seller
in
Pope's
Head-Alley
?
I
cry
thee
M●rcy
,
quoth
I
,
What
?
art
thou
here
?
Yes
,
Yes
,
Sir
(
says
he
)
't
is
e'en
too
True
.
I
never
dream't
it
would
have
come
to
This.
He
thought
I
must
needs
pity
him
,
when
I
knew
him
:
but
truly
I
reflected
rather
upon
the
Justice
of
his
Punishment
.
For
in
a
word
,
his
Shop
was
the
very
Mint
of
Heresy
,
Schisme
,
and
Sedition
.
I
put
on
a
Face
of
Compassion
however
,
to
give
him
a
little
Ease
,
which
He
took
hold
of
,
and
vented
his
Complaint
.
Well
Sir
(
sayes
He
)
I
would
my
Father
had
made
me
a
Hangman
,
when
He
made
me
a
Stationer
;
for
we
are
call'd
to
Accompt
for
Other
Men's
works
,
as
well
as
for
our
Own
.
And
one
thing
that
's
cast
in
our
Dish
,
is
the
selling
of
Translations
,
so
Dog-cheap
,
that
every
Sot
knows
now
as
much
,
as
would
formerly
have
made
a
Passable
Doctor
,
and
every
Nasty
Groom
,
and
Roguy
Lacquay
is
grown
as
familiar
with
Homer
,
Virgil
,
Ovid
,
as
if
't
were
Robin
the
Devil
;
The
seven
Champions
;
or
a
piece
of
George
Withers
.
He
would
have
talk't
on
,
if
a
Devil
had
not
stop't
his
Mouth
with
a
Whiffe
from
a
rowle
of
his
own
Papers
,
and
Choak't
him
with
the
smoak
on
't
.
The
Pestilent
Fume
would
have
dispatch't
me
too
,
if
I
had
not
got
presently
out
of
the
Reach
on
't
.
But
I
went
my
way
,
saying
this
to
my self
;
If
the
Book-seller
be
thus
Criminal
,
what
will
become
of
the
Author
?
I
was
diverted
from
this
Meditation
,
by
the
ruful
Grones
,
of
a
great
many
Souls
that
were
under
the
Lash
;
and
the
Devil
Tyrannizing
over
them
with
Whips
,
and
Scourges
.
I
ask't
what
they
were
;
and
it
was
told
me
,
that
there
was
a
Plot
among
the
Hackney-Coach-men
to
exhibit
an
Information
against
the
Devils
,
for
taking
the
Whip
out
of
their
Hands
,
and
setting
up
a
Trade
they
had
never
serv'd
to
,
(
which
is
Contrary
to
Quinto
Elizabethae
.
)
Well
,
said
I
:
But
why
are
they
tormented
here
?
With
That
,
an
old
Sowr-look't
Coach-man
took
the
Answer
out
of
the
Devil's
Mouth
,
and
told
me
;
that
it
was
because
they
came
to
Hell
a
Horseback
,
which
they
pretended
,
was
a
Privilege
that
did
not
belong
to
Rogues
of
their
Quality
.
Speak
Truth
,
and
be
hang'd
,
cry'd
the
Devil
;
and
make
an
honest
Confession
here
.
Say
,
Sirrah
,
How
many
Bawdy
Voyages
h●ve
you
made
to
Hackney
?
How
many
Nights
have
you
stood
Pimping
at
Marybone
?
How
many
Whores
,
and
Knaves
have
you
Brought
together
?
And
how
many
Lyes
have
you
told
,
to
keep
all
Private
,
since
you
first
set
up
this
Scandalous
Trade
?
There
was
a
Coach-man
by
,
that
had
serv'd
a
Iudge
,
and
thought
't
was
no
more
for
his
old
Master
to
fetch
a
Rascal
out
of
Hell
,
then
out
of
Newgate
;
which
made
this
fellow
stand
upon
his
Points
,
and
ask
the
Devil
,
how
he
durst
give
that
Language
to
so
Honourable
a
Profession
:
for
(
says
he
)
who
wear●
better
Clothes
then
your
Coachmen
?
Are
not
we
in
our
Velvets
,
Embroyderies
,
and
Laces
?
and
as
Glorious
as
so
many
Phaeto●s
?
Have
not
our
Mast●rs
reason
to
be
good
to
us
,
when
their
Necks
are
at
stake
,
and
their
Lives
at
our
Mercy
?
Nay
,
we
govern
those
,
many
times
,
that
Govern
Kingdomes
;
And
a
Prince
is
almost
in
as
much
Danger
of
his
Coach-man
as
of
his
Physician
.
And
There
are
,
that
understand
it
too
,
and
Themselves
,
and
Vs●
;
and
that
will
not
stick
to
trust
their
Coach-men
as
far
as
they
would
do
their
Confessors
.
There
's
no
Absurdity
in
the
Comparison
;
for
if
They
know
some
of
their
Privacies
,
we
know
more
;
yes
,
and
perhaps
more
then
Wee
'l
speak
of
.
What
have
we
here
to
do
?
cry'd
a
Devil
that
was
ready
to
break
his
heart
with
Laughing
.
A
Coach-man
,
in
his
Tropes
,
and
Figures
?
An
Orator
instead
of
a
Waggoner
?
The
slave
has
broke
his
Bridle
,
and
got
his
Head
at
Liberty
,
and
now
hee
'l
never
have
done
.
No
,
why
should
he
?
(
says
another
that
had
serv'd
a
great
Lady
more
wayes
then
One
)
Is
this
the
best
Entertainment
you
can
afford
your
Servants
?
your
daily
Drudges
?
I
'm
sure
we
bring
you
good
Commodity
,
well
pack't
;
well
Condition'd
;
well
perfum'd
;
Right
,
Neat
,
and
Clean
:
Not
like
your
City-war●+
-
that
comes
dirty
to
you
,
up
to
the
Hocks
;
and
yet
every
Daggle-Tayl'd
Wench
,
and
Skip-Kennel
,
shall
be
better
us'd
then
We.
Ah!
The
Ingratitude
of
this
Place
!
If
we
had
done
as
much
for
some-body
else
,
as
we
have
done
fo●
you
,
we
should
not
have
been
now
to
seek
,
for
our
Wages
.
When
you
have
nothing
else
to
say
,
you
tell
me
that
I
am
punish't
for
carrying
the
Sick
,
the
Gowty
,
the
Lame
,
to
Church
;
to
Mass
;
or
some
stragling
Virgins
,
back
again
to
their
Cloyster
:
Which
is
a
Damn'd
Lye
;
for
I
am
able
to
prove
,
that
all
my
Trading
lay
at
the
Play-houses
,
Bawdy-houses
,
Taverns
,
Balls
,
Collations
:
Or
else
at
the
Tour
à
la
Mode
,
where
there
was
still
appointed
some
after-meeting
,
to
treat
of
certain
affairs
,
that
highly
Import
the
Interest
,
and
Welfare
of
your
Dominions
.
I
have
indeed
carry'd
my
Mistress
sometimes
to
the
Church-Door
,
but
it
signify'd
no
more
then
if
I
had
carry'd
her
to
a
Conventicle
;
for
all
her
Business
there
,
was
to
meet
her
Gallant
,
and
to
agree
when
they
should
meet
next
;
according
to
the
way
of
Devotion
now
in
Mode
.
To
conclude
;
It
is
most
certain
,
that
I
never
took
any
Creature
(
knowingly
)
into
my
Coach
,
that
had
so
much
as
a
Good
Thought
.
And
it
was
so
well
known
to
us
,
that
it
was
all
one
,
to
ask
,
If
a
Lady
were
a
Maid
;
or
,
if
she
had
ever
been
in
my
Coach
.
If
it
appear'd
she
had
;
He
that
marry'd
her
,
knew
before-hand
,
what
he
had
to
trust
to
.
And
after
all
this
,
ye
have
made
us
a
fair
Requital
.
With
That
,
the
Devil
fell
a
Laughing
,
and
with
five
or
six
Twingeing
Jerks
,
half
flay'd
the
poor
Coach-man
;
so
that
I
was
e'en
glad
to
Retire
;
in
pity
partly
to
the
Coach-man
,
and
partly
to
my self
;
for
the
Currying
of
a
Coach-man
,
is
little
better
then
the
turning
up
of
a
Dunghil
.
My
next
Adventure
was
into
a
Deep
Vault
,
where
I
began
immediately
to
shudder
,
and
my
Teeth
chatter'd
in
my
Head
.
I
ask't
the
Meaning
of
it
;
and
there
came
up
to
me
a
Devil
,
with
Kib'd
Heels
,
and
his
Toes
all
Mortify'd
;
and
told
me
that
That
Quarter
was
alotted
to
the
Buffons
and
Drolls
,
which
are
a
people
(
says
he
)
of
so
starv'd
a
Conceipt
,
and
so
cold
a
Discourse
,
that
we
are
fain
to
Chain
,
and
Lock
them
up
,
for
fear
they
should
spoil
the
Temper
of
our
Fire
.
I
ask't
if
a
man
might
see
them
.
The
Devil
told
me
yes
,
and
shew'd
me
One
of
the
lewdest
Kennels
in
Hell
.
And
there
were
they
at
it
,
pe●king
at
One
Another
,
and
nothing
but
the
same
fooleries
over
and
over
again
,
that
they
had
practis'd
upon
Earth
.
Among
the
Buffons
,
I
saw
divers
that
pas●'d
here
in
the
World
for
Men
of
Honesty
,
and
Honour
:
which
were
in
,
as
the
Devil
told
me
,
for
Flattery
,
and
were
a
sort
of
Buffon
,
that
goes
betwixt
the
Bark
and
the
Tree
.
But
,
why
are
they
condemn'd
?
said
I.
The
other
Buffons
are
condemn'd
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
for
want
of
Favour
;
and
These
,
for
having
too
much
,
and
abusing
it
.
You
must
know
,
they
come
upon
us
,
still
at
Unawares
;
and
yet
they
find
all
things
in
Readiness
;
the
Cloth
laid
,
and
the
Bed
made
,
as
if
they
were
at
home
.
To
say
the
Truth
,
we
have
some
sort
of
Kindness
for
them
;
for
they
save
us
a
great
deal
of
Trouble
,
in
Tormenting
one
another
.
Do
you
see
him
there
?
That
,
was
a
wicked
,
and
a
Partial
Iudg
;
and
all
he
has
to
say
for
himself
,
is
,
that
he
remembers
the
Time
when
he
could
have
broke
the
Neck
of
two
Honest
Causes
,
and
He
put
them
only
out
of
Ioynt
.
That
good-fellow
there
,
was
a
careless
Husband
,
and
him
we
lodge
too
with
the
Buffons
.
He
sold
his
Wives
Portion
,
Wife
and
all
,
to
please
his
Companions
;
and
turn'd
both
into
an
Annuity
.
That
Lady
there
(
though
a
great
One
)
is
fain
to
take
up
too
with
the
Buffons
,
for
they
are
both
of
a
Humour
:
What
They
do
with
their
Talk
,
she
does
with
her
Body
,
and
seasons
it
to
all
Appetites
.
In
a
word
,
you
shall
find
Buffons
in
all
Conditions
;
and
in
effect
,
there
are
nigh
as
many
,
as
there
are
men
and
Women
:
For
the
whole
world
is
given
to
Ieering
,
Slandering
,
Back-biting
,
and
there
are
more
Natural
Buffons
,
then
Artificial
.
At
my
going
out
of
the
Vault
,
I
saw
a
matter
of
a
Thousand
Devils
,
following
a
Drove
of
Pastry-men
,
and
Breaking
their
Heads
as
they
pass'd
along
,
with
Iron
Peels
.
Alack
!
cry'd
one
of
them
,
that
was
yet
in
a
whole
Skin
,
it
is
hard
the
Sin
of
the
Flesh
should
be
laid
to
our
charge
,
that
never
had
to
do
with
Women
.
Impudent
,
Nasty
Rascals
(
quoth
a
Devil
)
who
has
deserv'd
Hell
,
if
they
have
not
?
How
many
thousand
men
have
these
slovens
poyson'd
,
with
the
Grease
of
their
Heads
,
and
Tailes
,
instead
of
Mutton-Sewet
?
with
Snot-Pies
for
Marrow
;
and
Flies
for
Currants
?
How
many
Stomach●
have
they
turn'd
into
Laystals
with
the
D●gs-Flesh
;
Horse-Flesh
and
other
Carrion
that
they
have
put
into
them
?
And
do
these
Rogues
complain
(
in
the
Devil's
Name
)
of
their
sufferings
?
Leave
your
Bawling
,
Ye
Whelps
,
(
says
he
)
and
know
,
that
the
Pain
you
endure
,
is
nothing
to
that
of
your
Tormenters
.
And
for
your
Part
(
says
he
,
with
a
fowr
Look
)
because
you
are
a
stranger
,
you
may
go
about
your
Business
;
but
we
have
a
Crow
to
pluck
with
these
fellows
,
before
we
part
.
I
went
next
,
down
a
pair
of
stairs
into
a
huge
Cellar
,
where
I
saw
men
burning
in
unquenchable
Fire
;
and
one
of
them
Roaring
,
Cry'd
out
,
I
never
over
sold
;
I
never
sold
,
but
at
Conscionable
Rates
,
why
am
I
punish't
thus
?
I
durst
have
sworn
it
had
been
Iudas
,
but
going
Nearer
him
,
to
see
if
He
had
a
Red-head
,
I
found
him
to
be
a
Merchant
of
my
Acquaintance
,
that
dy'd
not
long
since
.
How
now
,
old
Martin
,
(
said
I
)
art
thou
there
?
He
was
dogged
,
because
I
did
not
call
him
Sir
,
and
made
no
Answer
.
I
saw
his
Grief
,
and
told
him
how
much
He
was
to
blame
,
to
cherish
that
Vanity
even
in
Hell
,
that
had
brought
him
thither
.
And
what
do
ye
think
on
't
now
(
said
I
)
Had
not
you
better
have
traded
in
Blacks
then
Christians
?
Had
not
you
better
hav●
contented
your self
with
a
Little
,
honestly
got
,
then
run
the
Hazard
of
your
Soul
for
an
Estate
;
and
have
gone
to
Heaven
a
foot
,
rather
then
to
the
Devil
on
Horseback
?
My
Friend
was
as
Mute
as
a
Fish
;
whether
out
of
Anger
,
Shame
,
or
Grief
,
I
know
not
.
And
then
a
Devil
in
Office
took
up
the
Discourse
.
These
Pick-Pocket
Rogues
,
(
says
he
)
Did
they
think
to
govern
the
World
with
their
own
Weights
and
Measures
,
in
Sec●la
Seculorum
.
Methinks
,
the
Blinking
,
and
false
lights
of
their
shops
,
should
have
Minded
them
of
their
Quarter
in
the
Other
World
,
aforehand
.
And
't
is
all
a
Case
,
with
Iewellers
,
Goldsmiths
,
and
Other
Trades
,
that
serve
only
to
Flatter
and
Bolster
up
the
World
in
Luxury
,
and
Folly
.
But
if
people
would
be
wise
,
these
Youths
should
have
little
Enough
to
do
.
For
what
's
their
Cloth
of
Gold
,
and
Silver
,
their
Silks
,
their
Diamond
,
and
Pearl
,
(
which
they
sell
at
their
own
Price
)
but
matter
of
meer
Wantonness
,
and
Superfluity
?
These
are
they
that
inveigle
ye
into
all
sorts
of
Extravagant
Expences
,
and
so
ruine
ye
Insensibly
,
under
colour
of
Kindness
,
and
Credit
.
For
they
set
every
thing
at
double
the
Rate
;
and
if
you
keep
not
touch
at
your
Day
,
your
Persons
are
imprison'd
;
your
Goods
Seiz'd
;
and
your
Estates
Extended
.
And
they
that
hel'pt
to
make
you
Princes
before
,
are
now
the
forwardest
to
put
you
into
the
Condition
of
Beggars
.
The
Devil
would
have
talk't
on
,
if
I
had
given
him
the
hearing
,
but
there
was
such
a
Laugh
set
up
on
one
side
of
me
,
as
if
they
would
all
have
split
;
and
I
went
to
see
what
the
Matter
was
;
for
't
was
a
strange
thing
,
me
thought
,
to
hear
them
so
merry
in
Hell
.
The
Business
was
,
there
were
two
men
upon
a
Scaffold
,
in
Gentile
habits
,
gaping
as
lowd
as
they
could
Bawl
.
One
of
them
had
a
great
Parchment
in
his
Hand
,
display'd
,
with
Divers
Labels
hanging
at
it
,
and
several
Seals
.
I
thought
at
first
i●
might
have
been
Execution-day
,
and
took
the
Writing
for
a
Pardon
,
or
R●prieve
.
At
every
word
they
spoke
,
a
matter
of
Seven
or
Eight
Thousand
Devils
burst
out
a
Laughing
,
as
they
would
have
crack't
their
Sides
.
And
This
again
made
me
think
,
it
might
be
some
Iack-pudding
,
or
Mounte-bank
,
shewing
his
Tricks
,
or
his
Attestations
;
with
his
Congregation
of
fools
about
him
.
But
nearer
hand
,
I
found
my
Mistake
;
and
that
the
Devils
Mirth
made
the
Gentlemen
angry
.
At
last
,
I
perceiv'd
that
this
great
Earnestness
of
theirs
was
only
to
make
out
their
Pedegree
,
and
get
themselves
past
for
Gentlemen
;
the
Parchment
being
a
Testimonial
from
the
Heralds
Office
,
to
that
Purpose
.
My
Father
(
says
he
with
the
writing
in
's
Hand
)
bore
Arms
for
his
Majesty
in
many
Honourable
Occasions
,
of
Watching
,
and
Warding
;
and
has
made
many
a
Tall
Fellow
speak
to
the
Constable
,
at
all
hours
of
the
Night
.
My
Uncle
was
the
first
man
that
ever
was
of
the
Order
of
the
black-Guard
:
And
we
have
had
five
Brave
Commanders
of
our
Family
,
by
my
Father's
side
,
that
have
serv'd
the
State
in
the
Quality
of
Marshal's-men
,
and
Turn-Keys
,
and
given
his
Majesty
a
fair
Accompt
of
all
the
Pris'ners
committed
to
their
Charge
.
And
by
my
Mother's
side
,
it
will
not
be
deny'd
,
but
that
I
am
honourably
descended
;
For
my
Grandmother
was
never
without
●
Dozen
Chamber-maids
,
and
Nurses
in
Family
.
It
may
be
't
was
her
Trade
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
to
procure
Services
,
and
Servants
,
and
consequently
to
deal
in
that
Commodity
.
Well
,
Well
,
(
said
the
Cavalier
)
she
was
what
she
was
;
and
I
'm
sure
I
tell
you
Nothing
but
Truth
.
Her
Husband
wore
a
Sword
,
by
his
Place
,
for
he
was
a
Deputy-Marshal
;
and
to
prove
my self
a
Man
of
Honour
,
I
have
it
here
in
Black
and
White
,
under
the
Seal
of
the
Office
.
Why
must
I
then
be
quarter'd
among
a
Pack
of
Rascals
?
My
Gentleman
Friend
;
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
your
Grandfather
wore
a
Sword
,
as
He
was
Vsher
to
a
Fencing
School
;
and
we
know
very
well
what
his
Son
,
and
Grandchild
can
pretend
to
.
But
let
that
pass
;
you
have
led
a
Wicked
a●d
infamous
Life
,
and
sp●nt
your
time
,
in
Whoring
,
Drinking
,
Blaspheming
,
and
in
Lewd
Company
;
and
do
you
tell
us
now
of
the
Privileges
of
your
Nobility
?
Your
Testimonials
;
and
the
Seal
of
the
Office
?
A
Fart
for
your
Privileges
,
Testimonials
,
Office
and
all
.
There
is
no
Honour
,
but
Virtue
.
And
if
your
Children
,
though
they
had
a
Scoundrel
to
their
Father
,
should
come
to
do
honourable
and
worthy
things
,
we
should
look
upon
them
as
Persons
Sacred
,
and
not
dare
to
Meddle
with
them
.
But
Talking
is
Time
lost
;
You
were
ever
a
Couple
of
Pitiful
fellows
,
and
your
Tayls
scarce
worth
the
Scalding
.
Have
at
ye
,
(
says
he
)
and
at
that
word
,
with
a
huge
Iron
Bar
He
gave
him
such
a
Salute
over
the
Buttocks
,
that
He
took
two
or
three
turns
in
the
Air
,
Heels
over
Head
,
and
dropt
at
last
into
the
Common-shore
;
where
never
any
man
as
yet
found
the
Bottom
.
When
his
Companion
had
seen
him
Cut
that
Caper
;
This
Usage
(
says
he
)
may
be
well
enough
for
a
Parchment
Gentleman
:
but
for
a
Cavalier
of
my
Extraction
,
and
Profession
,
I
suppose
you
'l
Treat
him
with
somewhat
more
of
Civility
,
and
Respect
.
Cavalier
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
if
you
have
brought
no
better
Plea
along
with
you
,
then
the
Antiquity
of
your
House
,
you
may
e'en
follow
your
Camerade
,
for
ought
I
know
,
for
we
find
very
few
ancient
Families
,
that
had
not
some
Oppressor
or
Vsurper
,
for
their
Founder
;
and
they
are
commonly
continu'd
by
the
same
means
,
they
were
begun
.
How
many
are
there
of
our
Titular
Nobility
,
that
write
Noble
,
purely
upon
the
Accompt
of
their
Violence
,
and
Injustice
?
Their
Subjects
,
and
Tenants
,
what
with
Impositions
,
hard
services
,
and
Rack't
Rents
,
are
they
not
Worse
then
slaves
?
If
they
happen
to
have
any
thing
Extraordinary
,
as
a
pleasant
Fruit
;
A
Handsome
Colt
;
a
Good
Cow
;
and
that
the
Landlord
,
or
his
Sweet
Lady
take
a
liking
to
it
,
they
must
either
submit
to
part
with
it
Gratis
,
or
else
take
their
Pay
in
foul
Language
,
or
Bastinadoes
.
And
't
is
well
if
they
'scape
so
:
For
many
times
when
the
sign
's
in
Gemini
;
their
Wives
and
Daughters
go
to
Pot
,
without
any
regard
of
Laws
either
Sacred
or
Prophane
.
What
Damn'd
Blasphemies
and
Imprecations
do
they
make
use
of
,
to
get
Credit
with
a
Mistress
or
a
Creditor
,
Upon
a
Faithless
Promise
!
How
intolerable
is
their
Pride
,
and
Insolence
,
even
towards
many
Considerable
Officers
,
both
in
Church
and
State
!
for
They
behave
themselves
as
if
all
people
below
their
Quality
and
Rank
in
the
World
,
were
but
as
so
many
Brutes
,
or
Worse
.
As
if
Humane
Blood
were
not
all
of
a
Colour
:
As
if
Nature
had
not
brought
them
into
the
world
the
Common
way
,
or
Moulded
them
of
the
same
Materials
with
the
Meanest
Wretches
upon
the
Earth
.
And
then
for
such
as
have
Military
Charges
,
and
Commands
;
How
many
Great
Officers
are
there
,
that
without
any
Consideration
of
their
Own
,
or
Their
Princes
Honour
,
fall
to
spoil
and
Pillage
?
Cousening
the
State
with
false
Musters
,
and
the
Souldiers
of
their
Pay
;
and
giving
them
,
instead
of
their
Due
from
the
Prince
,
a
Liberty
of
taking
what
is
not
their
due
from
the
People
;
forcing
them
to
take
the
Bread
out
of
the
poor
Labourers
Mouths
,
to
fill
their
own
Bellies
,
and
protecting
them
when
they
have
done
,
in
the
most
Execrable
Outrages
Imaginable
.
And
when
the
poor
Souldier
comes
at
last
to
be
dismist
,
or
disbanded
;
Lame
,
Sick
,
Beggerly
,
Naked
almost
,
and
Enraged
;
with
Nothing
left
him
to
trust
to
,
but
the
high-way
to
keep
him
from
starving
.
What
Mischief
is
there
in
the
world
,
that
these
men
are
not
the
Cause
of
?
How
many
good
Families
are
utterly
ruin'd
,
and
at
this
day
in
the
Hospital
,
for
trusting
to
their
Oaths
and
Promises
!
and
becoming
bound
for
them
,
for
vast
sums
of
Money
to
maintain
them
in
Tipple
,
and
Whores
,
and
in
all
sorts
of
Luxury
,
and
Ryot
?
This
Rhetorical
Devil
would
have
said
a
Thousand
times
more
,
but
that
his
Companions
call'd
him
off
,
and
told
him
they
had
business
elsewhere
.
The
Cavalier
hearing
that
,
my
Friend
,
(
said
he
)
your
Morals
are
very
good
,
but
yet
with
your
Favour
,
all
men
are
not
alike
.
There
's
never
a
Barrel
better
Herring
,
(
said
the
Devil
)
You
are
all
of
ye
tainted
with
Original
Sin
,
and
if
you
had
been
any
better
then
your
fellows
,
you
had
never
been
sent
hither
.
But
if
you
are
indeed
so
Noble
,
as
you
say
,
you
're
worth
the
Burning
,
if
't
were
but
for
your
Ashes
.
And
that
you
may
have
no
Cause
of
Complaint
,
you
shall
see
,
Wee
'l
treat
you
like
a
person
of
your
Condition
.
And
in
that
Instant
,
Two
Devils
presented
themselves
;
the
one
of
them
Bridled
,
and
Sadled
;
and
the
other
,
doing
the
Office
of
the
Squire
;
holding
the
Stirrop
,
with
his
left
hand
,
and
giving
the
Gentleman
a
Lift
into
the
Saddle
with
the
Other
.
Which
was
no
sooner
done
,
but
away
he
went
like
an
Arrow
out
of
a
Bow
.
I
ask't
the
Devil
then
into
what
Countrey
he
carry'd
him
.
And
he
told
me
,
Not
far
:
for
't
was
only
matter
of
Decorum
,
to
send
the
Nobility
to
Hell
,
a
Horse-back
.
Look
on
that
side
now
,
says
he
,
and
so
I
did
;
and
There
I
saw
the
poor
Cavalier
in
a
huge
Furnace
,
with
the
first
Inventers
of
Nobility
,
and
Arms
:
As
Cain
;
Cham
;
Nimrod
;
Esau
;
Romulus
;
Tarquin
;
Nero
;
Caligula
;
Domitian
;
Heliogabalus
;
and
〈◊〉
world
of
other
Brave
fellows
,
that
had
made
themselves
famous
by
Usurpation
,
and
Blood
.
The
Place
was
a
little
too
hot
for
me
,
and
so
I
retir'd
,
meditating
on
what
I
had
heard
;
and
not
a
little
satisfied
with
the
Discourse
of
so
learned
a
Devil
.
Till
that
time
,
I
took
the
Devil
for
a
Notorious
Lyer
;
but
I
find
now
that
He
can
speak
the
Truth
too
,
when
he
pleases
;
and
I
would
not
for
all
I
am
worth
,
but
have
heard
him
Preach
.
When
I
was
thus
far
,
my
Curiosity
carry'd
me
still
farther
;
and
within
Twenty
Yards
,
I
eame
to
a
huge
Muddy
,
Stinking
Lake
,
near
'
twice
as
big
as
that
of
Geneva
;
and
heard
in
't
so
strange
a
Noise
,
that
I
was
almost
out
of
my
Wits
,
to
know
what
it
was
.
They
told
me
that
the
Lake
was
stor'd
with
Doüegna's
,
or
Governantes
,
which
are
turn'd
into
a
kind
of
Frogs
in
Hell
,
and
perpetually
Driveling
,
Sputtering
,
and
Croaking
.
Me
thought
,
The
Conversion
was
apt
enough
;
for
they
are
Neither
Fish
,
nor
Flesh
,
no
more
then
Frogs
;
And
Only
the
lower
Parts
of
them
are
Man's-Meat
,
but
their
Heads
are
Enough
to
turn
a
very
good
Stomach
.
I
could
not
but
Laugh
,
to
see
how
they
Gaped
,
and
stretch't
out
their
Legs
as
they
swam
,
and
still
as
we
came
Neer
,
They'd
Scud
away
and
Dive
.
This
was
no
place
to
stay
in
,
there
was
so
Noysome
a
Vapour
;
and
so
I
strook
off
,
upon
the
Left-Hand
;
where
I
saw
a
Number
of
old
men
,
beating
their
Breasts
,
and
Tearing
their
Faces
;
with
bitter
Grones
,
and
Lamentations
.
It
made
my
Heart
ake
to
see
them
,
and
I
ask't
what
they
were
:
Answer
was
made
,
that
I
was
now
in
The
Quarter
of
the
Fathers
that
damn'd
themselves
,
to
raise
their
Posterity
;
which
were
called
by
some
,
The
Unadvised
.
Wretch
that
I
am
!
(
cry'd
one
of
them
)
The
greatest
Penitent
that
ever
liv'd
,
never
suffer'd
the
Mortification
I
have
endur'd
;
I
have
Watch'd
;
I
have
Fasted
;
I
have
scarce
had
any
Clothes
to
my
Back
▪
My
whole
Life
has
been
a
Restless
Course
of
Torment
,
both
of
Body
,
and
Mind
▪
and
all
This
,
to
get
Money
for
my
Children
;
that
I
might
see
them
well
Marry'd
;
Buy
them
Places
at
Court
,
or
procure
them
some
other
Preferment
in
the
World
:
starving
my self
in
the
Conclusion
,
rather
then
I
would
lessen
the
Provision
,
I
had
made
for
my
Posterity
.
And
yet
Notwithstanding
this
my
fatherly
care
,
I
was
scarce
sooner
Dead
,
then
forgotten
:
and
my
Next
Heir
bury'd
me
without
Tears
,
or
Mourning
;
and
indeed
without
so
much
as
paying
of
Legacies
,
or
praying
for
my
Soul
:
as
if
they
had
already
received
certain
Intelligence
of
my
Damnation
.
And
to
aggravate
my
Sorrows
,
The
Prodigals
are
now
Squandering
,
and
consuming
that
Estate
in
Gaming
,
Whoring
,
and
Debauches
,
which
I
had
scraped
together
by
so
much
Industry
,
Vexation
and
Oppression
,
and
for
which
I
suffer
at
this
Instant
such
Insupportable
Torments
.
This
should
have
been
thought
on
before
(
cry'd
a
Devil
)
for
sure
you
have
heard
of
the
Old
saying
.
Happy
is
the
Child
whose
Father
goes
to
the
Devil
.
At
which
word
,
the
Old
Misers
brake
out
into
fresh
Rage
,
and
Lamentation
,
Tearing
their
Flesh
,
with
Tooth
and
Nayl
,
in
so
ruful
a
manner
,
that
I
was
no
longer
able
to
endure
the
Spectacle
.
A
Little
further
,
there
was
a
Dark
,
Hideous
Prison
,
where
I
heard
the
Clattering
of
Chains
;
the
Crackling
of
Flames
;
the
Slapping
of
Whips
;
and
a
confused
out-cry
of
Complaints
.
I
ask't
what
Quarter
this
was
;
and
they
told
me
it
was
the
Quarter
of
the
Oh
that
I
had
's
!
What
are
those
said
I
?
Answer
was
made
,
that
they
were
a
Company
of
Brutish
Sots
,
so
absolutely
deliver'd
up
to
Vice
,
that
they
were
damn'd
insensibly
,
and
in
Hell
before
they
were
aware
.
They
are
now
reflecting
upon
their
Miscarriages
,
and
Omissions
,
and
perpetually
crying
out
;
Oh
that
I
had
Examin'd
my
Conscience
!
Oh
that
I
had
frequented
the
Sacraments
!
Oh
that
I
had
humbled
my self
with
Fasting
,
and
Prayer
!
Oh
that
I
had
serv'd
God
as
I
ought
!
Oh
that
I
had
Visited
the
Sick
▪
and
Reliev'd
the
Poor
!
Oh
that
I
had
set
a
Watch
before
the
Door
of
my
Lips
!
I
left
these
late
Repentants
,
(
as
it
appear'd
)
in
Exchange
for
worse
,
which
were
shut
up
in
a
Base
Court
,
and
the
Nastiest
that
ever
I
saw
.
These
were
such
as
had
ever
in
their
Mouths
.
God
is
Merciful
,
and
will
pardon
me
.
How
can
this
be
,
(
said
I
)
that
these
people
should
be
Damn'd
?
When
Condemnation
is
an
Act
of
Iustice
,
not
of
Mercy
;
I
perceive
you
are
simple
,
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
for
half
these
you
see
here
,
are
condemn'd
with
the
Mercy
of
God
in
their
Mouths
.
And
to
Explain
my self
,
Consider
I
pray'e
,
how
many
Sinners
are
there
,
that
go
on
in
their
Wayes
,
in
spight
of
Reproof
,
and
Good
Counsel
:
and
still
this
is
their
Answer
;
God
is
Merciful
,
and
will
not
damn
a
Soul
for
so
small
a
Matter
.
But
let
them
talk
of
Mercy
as
they
please
;
so
long
as
they
persist
in
a
Wicked
Life
,
we
are
like
to
have
their
Company
at
last
.
By
your
Argument
(
said
I
)
there
's
no
trusting
to
Divine
Mercy
.
You
mistake
me
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
for
every
good
Thought
,
and
Work
,
flows
from
that
Mercy
.
But
This
I
say
:
He
that
perseveres
in
his
Wickedness
,
and
makes
use
of
the
Name
of
Mercy
,
only
for
a
Countenance
to
his
Impieties
,
does
but
Mock
the
Almighty
,
and
has
no
Title
to
that
Mercy
.
For
't
is
vain
to
expect
Mercy
from
above
,
without
doing
any
thing
in
order
to
it
.
It
properly
belongs
to
the
Righteous
,
and
the
Penitent
;
and
they
that
have
the
most
of
it
upon
the
Tongue
,
have
commonly
the
least
thought
of
it
in
their
Hearts
:
And
't
is
a
great
Aggravation
of
Guilt
,
to
Sin
the
more
,
in
Confidence
of
an
Abounding
Mercy
.
It
is
True
that
many
are
receiv'd
to
Mercy
,
that
are
utterly
Unworthy
of
it
,
which
is
no
wonder
,
since
No
man
of
himself
can
deserve
it
:
But
men
are
so
Negligent
of
seeking
it
betimes
,
that
they
put
that
off
,
to
the
last
,
which
should
have
been
the
first
part
of
their
bus'ness
;
and
many
times
their
Life
is
at
End
,
before
they
begin
their
Repentance
.
I
did
not
think
so
Damn'd
a
Doctor
could
have
made
so
good
a
Sermon
.
And
there
I
left
him
.
I
came
next
,
to
a
Noysome
Dark
hole
,
and
there
I
saw
a
Company
of
Dyers
,
all
in
Dirt
,
and
Smoke
,
intermixt
with
the
Devils
,
and
so
alike
,
that
it
would
have
posed
the
subtlest
Inquisitor
in
Spain
,
to
have
said
,
which
were
the
Devils
,
and
which
the
Dyers
.
There
stood
at
my
Elbow
,
a
strange
kind
of
Mungrel
Devil
,
begot
betwixt
a
Black
,
and
a
White
;
with
a
Head
so
bestuck
with
Little
Horns
,
that
it
look't
at
a
Distance
like
a
Hedg-hog
.
I
took
the
Boldness
to
ask
him
,
where
they
quarter'd
the
Sodomites
,
the
Old
Women
and
the
Cuckolds
.
As
for
the
Cuckolds
,
(
said
He
)
they
are
all
over
Hell
,
without
any
Certain
Quarter
,
or
Station
;
and
in
Truth
,
't
is
no
easie
matter
to
know
a
Cuckold
from
a
Devil
,
for
(
like
kind
Husbands
)
they
wear
their
Wives
favours
still
,
and
the
very
same
Head-pieces
in
Hell
,
that
they
wore
living
in
the
world
.
As
to
the
Sodomites
,
we
have
no
more
to
do
with
them
,
then
needs
must
;
but
upon
all
Occasions
,
we
either
Fly
,
or
Face
them
:
for
if
ever
we
come
to
give
them
a
Broad-side
,
'T
is
ten
to
one
but
we
get
a
Hit
betwixt
Wind
and
Water
;
and
yet
we
fence
with
our
Tayls
,
as
well
as
we
can
,
and
they
get
now
and
then
a
Flap
o're
the
Mouth
into
the
Bargain
.
And
for
the
Old
women
,
we
make
them
stand
off
;
for
we
take
as
little
pleasure
in
them
,
as
you
do
:
And
yet
the
Jades
will
be
persecuting
us
with
their
Passions
;
and
ye
shall
have
a
Bawd
of
five
and
fifty
,
do
ye
all
the
Gamboles
of
a
Girl
of
fifteen
.
And
yet
after
all
this
,
There
's
not
an
old
Woman
in
Hell
;
for
let
her
be
as
old
as
Pauls
;
Bald
,
Blind
,
Toothless
,
Wrinckled
,
Decrepit
:
This
is
not
long
of
her
Age
,
shee
'l
tell
you
;
but
a
Terrible
Fit
of
sickness
last
year
,
that
fetch
't
off
her
Hair
,
and
brought
her
so
low
,
that
she
has
not
yet
recover'd
her
flesh
again
.
She
lost
her
Eyes
by
a
Hot
Rheum
:
and
utterly
spoil'd
her
Teeth
with
Cracking
of
Peach-stones
,
and
Eating
of
Sweet-meats
,
when
she
was
a
Maid
.
And
when
the
Weight
of
her
Years
has
almost
brought
both
Ends
together
,
'T
is
nothing
shee
'l
tell
ye
but
a
Crick
she
has
got
in
her
Back
:
And
though
she
might
recover
her
Youth
again
,
by
confessing
her
Age
,
shee
'l
never
acknowledge
it
.
My
next
encounter
was
,
a
Number
of
People
making
their
mone
,
that
they
had
been
taken
away
by
sudden
Death
.
That
's
an
Impudent
Lye
(
cry'd
a
Devil
)
saving
this
Gentleman's
presence
)
for
no
man
dyes
suddenly
.
Death
surprizes
no
man
,
but
gives
all
men
sufficient
warning
,
and
Notice
.
I
was
much
taken
with
the
Devil's
Civility
,
and
Discourse
;
which
he
pursu'd
after
this
manner
.
Do
ye
complain
(
says
He
)
of
sudden
Death
?
that
have
carry'd
Death
about
ye
,
ever
since
you
were
Born
;
That
have
been
entertain'd
with
daily
Spectacles
of
Carkasses
and
Funerals
;
That
have
heard
so
many
Sermons
upon
the
subject
;
and
read
so
many
good
Books
upon
the
Frailty
of
Life
,
and
the
Certainty
of
Death
.
Do
ye
not
know
that
every
Moment
ye
live
,
brings
ye
nearer
to
your
End
?
Your
Cloaths
wear
out
;
Your
Woods
,
and
your
Houses
decay
;
and
yet
ye
look
that
your
Bodies
should
be
Immortal
.
What
are
the
Common
Accidents
and
Diseases
of
Life
,
but
so
many
warnings
to
provide
your self
for
a
Remove
?
Ye
have
Death
at
the
Table
,
in
your
Daily
Food
,
and
Nourishment
;
for
your
Life
is
maintain'd
by
the
Death
of
●ther
Creatures
.
And
you
have
the
●●vely
picture
of
it
,
every
Night
for
your
Bedfellow
.
With
what
Face
then
can
you
Charge
your
Misfortunes
upon
sudden
Death
?
that
have
spent
your
whole
Life
,
both
at
Bed
,
and
at
Bord
,
among
so
many
Remembrances
of
your
Mortality
.
No
,
No
;
change
your
stile
,
and
hereafter
confess
your selves
to
have
been
Careless
and
Incredulous
.
You
Dye
,
t●in●ing
you
are
not
to
Dye
yet
;
and
forgetting
that
Death
grows
upon
you
,
and
goes
along
with
ye
from
one
End
of
your
Life
to
the
Other
,
without
Distinguishing
of
Persons
,
or
Ages
;
Sex
,
or
Quality
:
and
whether
it
finds
ye
Well
,
or
Ill-doing
;
As
the
Tree
falls
,
so
it
Lies
.
Turning
toward
my
left
Hand
,
I
saw
a
great
many
Souls
that
were
put
up
in
Gally-pots
,
with
Assa
foetida
,
Galbanum
,
and
a
Company
of
Nasty
Oyls
that
served
them
for
Syrrup
.
What
a
Damn'd
stink
is
here
(
Cry'd
I
,
stopping
my
Nose
)
We
are
now
come
undoubtedly
to
the
Devil's
house
of
Office
;
No
,
No
,
(
said
their
Tormenter
)
which
was
a
kind
of
a
Yellowish
Complexion'd
Devil
)
'T
is
a
Confection
of
Apothecaries
.
A
sort
of
people
,
that
are
commonly
Damn'd
for
Compounding
the
Medici●●●
by
which
their
Patients
hope
to
be
saved
.
To
give
them
their
due
;
These
are
your
only
True
,
and
Chymical
Philosophers
;
and
worth
a
thousand
of
Raymund
Lullius
,
Hermes
,
Geber
,
Ruspicella
,
Avicen
,
and
their
Fellows
;
'T
is
true
,
they
have
written
fine
things
of
the
Transmutation
of
Mettals
;
but
did
they
ever
make
any
Gold
?
Or
if
they
did
,
We
have
lost
the
Secret
.
Whereas
your
Apothecaries
,
out
of
a
Little
Puddle-water
;
a
Bundle
of
Rotten
sticks
;
a
Box
of
Flies
;
Nay
out
of
Toads
,
Vipers
,
and
a
Sir
Reverence
it self
,
will
fetch
ye
Gold
ready
Minted
,
and
fit
for
the
Market
;
which
is
more
then
all
your
Philosophical
Projecters
ever
pretended
to
.
There
is
no
Herb
so
Poysonous
,
(
let
it
be
Hemlock
)
nor
any
stone
so
dry
,
(
suppose
the
Pumice
it self
)
but
they
'l
draw
silver
out
of
it
.
And
then
for
words
,
't
is
Impossible
to
make
up
any
word
out
of
the
four
and
twenty
Letters
,
but
they
'l
shew
ye
a
Drug
,
or
a
Plant
of
the
Name
;
and
turn
the
Alphabet
into
as
good
Money
as
any
's
in
your
Pocket
.
Ask
them
for
an
Eye-Tooth
of
a
Flying
Toad
;
they
'l
tell
ye
,
yes
,
ye
may
have
of
it
,
in
powder
;
Or
if
you
had
rather
have
the
Infusion
of
a
Tench
of
the
Mountains
,
in
a
little
Eeles
Milk
,
't
is
all
one
to
them
.
If
there
be
but
any
Money
stirring
,
you
shall
have
what
you
will
,
though
there
be
to
such
thing
in
Nature
.
S●
that
it
looks
as
if
all
●he
Plants
,
and
stones
of
the
Creation
,
had
their
several
powers
and
Vertues
given
them
,
only
for
the
Apothecaries
sakes
;
and
as
if
Words
themselves
had
been
only
made
for
their
Advantage
.
Ye
call
them
Apothecaries
;
but
instead
of
That
,
I
pray'e
call
them
Arm●r●rs
;
and
their
Shops
,
Arsenals
;
Are
not
their
Medicines
as
Certain
Death
,
as
Swords
,
Daggers
,
or
Musquets
?
while
their
Patients
are
Purg'd
and
Blouded
into
the
other
World
,
without
any
regard
either
to
Distemper
,
Measure
,
or
Season
.
If
you
will
now
see
the
Pleasantest
sight
you
have
seen
yet
,
walk
up
but
these
two
steps
,
and
you
shall
see
a
Iury
(
or
Conspiracy
)
of
Barber-Surgeons
,
sitting
upon
life
and
Death
.
You
must
think
that
any
Divertisement
there
was
welcome
,
so
that
I
went
up
,
and
found
it
in
Truth
a
very
pleasant
Spectacle
.
These
Barbers
were
most
of
them
Chain'd
by
the
Middle
;
their
Han●s
at
Liberty
;
and
Every
one
of
them
,
a
Cittern
about
his
Neck
;
and
upon
his
knees
a
Chess-board
:
and
still
as
he
reach't
to
have
a
Touch
at
the
Citte●●
,
the
Instrument
Vanish't
;
and
so
did
the
Chess-board
,
when
he
thought
to
have
a
Game
at
Draughts
;
which
is
directly
Tantalizing
the
poor
Rogues
,
for
a
Cittern
is
as
Natural
to
a
Barber
,
as
Milk
to
a
Calf
.
Some
of
them
were
washing
of
Asses
Brains
,
and
putting
them
in
again
;
and
scouring
of
Negroes
to
make
them
White
.
When
I
had
laught
my
Fill
at
these
fooleries
,
my
next
Discovery
was
,
of
a
great
many
people
,
Grumbling
and
Muttering
,
that
There
was
no
Body
look't
after
them
;
No
not
so
much
as
to
torment
them
;
as
if
Their
Tayls
were
not
as
well
worth
the
Toasting
,
as
their
Neighbours
.
Answer
was
made
,
that
being
a
kind
of
Devils
themselves
,
they
might
put
in
for
some
sort
of
Authority
in
the
Place
,
and
Execute
the
Office
of
Tormenters
.
This
made
me
ask
what
they
were
.
And
a
Devil
told
me
(
with
Respect
)
that
they
were
a
Company
of
Ungracious
,
Left-handed
Wretches
,
that
could
do
Nothing
aright
.
And
their
Grievance
was
that
they
were
Quarter'd
by
Themselves
;
but
not
knowing
whether
they
were
Men
or
No
;
or
indeed
what
else
to
make
of
them
,
we
did
not
know
how
to
Match
them
,
or
in
what
Company
to
put
them
.
In
the
world
they
are
look't
upon
as
Ill
Omens
;
And
let
any
man
meet
one
of
them
,
upon
a
Journey
in
a
Morning
,
Fasting
;
't
is
the
same
thing
as
if
a
Hare
had
cross't
the
way
upon
him
;
He
presently
turns
head
in
a
Discontent
,
and
goes
to
bed
again
.
Ye
know
that
Scaevola
,
when
he
found
his
Mistake
,
in
killing
Another
,
for
Porsenna
(
the
Secretary
,
for
the
Prince
)
burn't
his
Right-Hand
in
Revenge
of
the
Miscarriage
:
Now
the
severity
of
the
Vengeance
,
was
not
so
much
the
Maiming
or
the
Cripling
of
Himself
,
but
the
Condemning
of
himself
to
be
for
ever
Left-handed
.
And
so
't
is
with
a
Malefactor
that
suffers
Justice
;
The
Shame
,
and
Punishment
,
does
not
lye
so
much
in
the
Loss
of
his
Right-Hand
,
as
that
the
other
is
Left
.
And
it
was
the
Curse
of
an
old
Bawd
,
to
a
fellow
that
had
vex'd
her
,
That
He
might
go
to
the
Devil
by
the
stroke
of
a
Left-handed
Man
.
If
the
Poets
speak
Truth
,
(
as
't
were
a
Wonder
if
they
should
not
)
The
Left
is
the
Vnlucky
side
;
and
there
never
came
any
Good
from
it
.
And
for
my
last
argument
against
these
Creatures
;
The
Goats
,
and
Reprobates
stand
upon
the
Left-hand
:
And
Left-handed
men
are
,
in
Effect
,
a
sort
of
Creature
that
's
made
to
do
Mischief
;
Nay
whether
I
should
●all
them
Men
,
or
no
,
I
know
not
.
Hereupon
,
a
Devil
becken'd
me
to
come
softly
to
him
;
and
so
I
did
,
without
a
word
speaking
or
the
least
Noise
in
the
World
.
Now
(
says
he
)
if
you
'l
see
the
Daily
Exercise
of
Ill-favour'd
Women
,
look
through
that
Lattice-Window
.
And
there
I
saw
such
a
Kennel
of
Vgly
Bitches
,
you
would
have
blest
your self
.
Some
,
with
their
faces
so
pounced
,
and
speckled
,
as
if
they
had
been
scarify'd
,
and
newly
past
the
Cupping-Glass
;
with
a
world
of
little
Plaisters
,
long
,
round
,
square
;
and
briefly
,
cut
out
into
such
Variety
,
that
it
would
have
posed
a
good
Mathematician
to
have
found
out
another
Figure
;
And
you
would
have
sworn
that
they
had
been
either
at
Cats-play
,
or
Cuffs
.
Others
,
were
scraping
their
faces
with
pieces
of
Glass
;
tearing
up
their
Eye-brows
by
the
Roots
,
like
Mad
:
And
some
that
had
none
to
tear
,
were
fetching
out
of
their
black
Boxes
,
such
as
they
could
get
,
or
make
.
Others
were
powd'ring
,
and
curling
their
false
Locks
;
or
fast'ning
their
new
Ivory
Teeth
,
in
the
place
of
their
old
Ebony
Ones
.
Some
were
Chewing
Lemon-pill
,
or
Cinamon
,
to
countenance
a
foul
Breath
;
And
raising
themselves
upon
their
Ciopines
,
that
their
View
might
be
the
fairer
,
and
their
fall
the
Deeper
.
Others
were
quarrelling
with
their
Looking-Glasses
,
for
shewing
them
such
Hags-faces
:
and
cursing
the
state
of
Venice
for
Entertaining
no
Better
workmen
.
Some
were
stuffing
out
their
Bodies
,
like
Pack-saddles
,
to
cover
secret
Deformities
:
And
some
again
had
so
many
Hoods
over
their
faces
,
to
conceal
the
Ruines
,
that
I
could
hardly
discern
what
they
were
;
And
These
past
for
Penitents
.
Others
,
with
their
pots
of
Hogs
Grease
,
and
Pomatum
,
were
sleeking
,
and
polishing
their
faces
,
and
indeed
their
fore-heads
were
bright
,
and
shining
,
though
there
were
neither
Suns
,
nor
Stars
in
That
Firmament
:
Some
there
were
(
in
Fine
)
that
would
have
fetch
't
a
man's
Guts
up
at
's
mouth
,
to
see
them
with
their
Masques
of
After-Births
;
and
with
their
Menstruous
Slibber
Slobbers
,
dawbing
one
another
to
take
away
the
Heats
,
and
Bubos
.
Nasty
and
Abominable
!
I
cry'd
.
Well
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
you
see
now
how
far
a
Woman's
Wit
,
and
Invention
will
carry
her
to
her
own
Destruction
.
I
could
not
speak
one
word
for
Astonishment
at
so
horrid
a
spectacle
;
till
I
had
a
little
recollected
my self
:
and
then
(
said
I
)
If
I
may
deal
freely
without
Offence
;
I
dare
Defy
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
to
out-do
these
Women
.
But
pray'e
let
's
be
gone
,
for
the
sight
of
them
,
makes
my
very
Heart
ake
.
Turn
about
then
,
(
said
the
Devil
)
and
there
was
a
fellow
sitting
in
a
Chair
,
all
alone
;
never
a
Devil
near
him
;
No
Fire
,
or
Frost
;
No
Heat
,
or
Cold
;
or
any
thing
else
;
that
I
could
perceive
,
to
torment
him
;
and
yet
crying
and
Roaring
out
the
most
hideously
of
any
thing
I
had
yet
heard
in
Hell
:
Tearing
his
Flesh
;
and
Beating
his
Body
,
like
a
Bedlam
;
and
his
Heart
,
all
the
while
,
Bleeding
at
his
Eyes
.
Good
Lord
,
thought
I
,
what
ails
this
Wretch
,
to
yell
out
thus
when
no
Body
Hurts
him
▪
So
I
went
up
to
Him
;
Friend
(
said
I
)
what
's
the
meaning
of
all
this
Fury
,
and
Transport
?
for
,
so
far
as
I
can
see
,
there
's
nothing
to
trouble
you
.
No
,
No
,
(
says
he
with
a
Horrid
Out-cry
,
and
with
all
the
Extravagances
of
a
Man
in
Rage
,
and
Despair
)
you
do
not
see
my
Tormentors
;
but
the
all-searching
Eye
of
the
Almighty
,
sees
my
Pains
,
as
well
as
my
Transgressions
;
and
with
a
severe
,
and
Implacable
Iustice
,
has
condemn'd
me
to
suffer
Punishments
answerable
to
my
Crimes
.
(
Which
Words
He
utter'd
with
redoubled
Clamours
)
My
Executioners
are
in
my
Soul
,
and
all
the
Plagues
of
Hell
in
my
Conscience
.
My
Memory
serves
me
instead
of
a
Cruel
Devil
.
The
Remembrance
of
the
Good
I
should
have
done
,
and
Omitted
;
And
of
the
Ill
,
I
should
not
have
done
,
and
did
.
The
Remembrance
of
the
wholesome
Counsels
I
have
rejected
,
and
of
the
Ill
example
I
have
given
.
And
for
the
Aggravation
of
my
Misery
;
where
my
Memory
leaves
afflicting
me
,
my
Understanding
begins
:
shewing
me
the
Glories
,
and
Beatitudes
I
have
lost
,
which
others
enjoy
,
who
have
gain'd
Heaven
,
with
less
Anxiety
,
and
Pain
then
I
have
endur'd
,
to
compass
my
Damnation
.
Now
am
I
perpetually
meditating
on
the
Comforts
,
Beauties
,
Felicities
,
and
Raptures
of
Paradise
,
only
to
enflame
,
and
exasperate
my
Despair
in
Hell
:
begging
in
Vain
,
but
for
one
moments
Interval
of
Ease
,
without
obtaining
any
;
for
my
Will
is
also
as
Inexorable
,
as
either
my
Memory
,
or
my
Understanding
.
And
These
(
my
Friend
of
the
other
world
)
are
the
Three
Faculties
of
my
Soul
,
which
Divine
Iustice
,
for
my
Sins
,
has
converted
into
three
Tormentors
,
that
Torture
me
without
Noise
;
Into
Three
Flames
,
that
burn
me
without
consuming
.
And
if
I
chance
at
any
time
to
have
the
least
Remission
,
or
Respite
;
The
Worm
of
my
Conscience
gnaws
my
Soul
,
and
finds
it
,
to
an
Insatiable
Hunger
,
an
Immortal
Aliment
,
and
Entertainment
.
At
that
word
,
turning
towards
me
with
a
Hellish
Yell
;
Mortal
(
says
he
)
learn
,
and
be
assur'd
from
me
,
that
all
those
that
either
bury
or
misemploy
their
Talents
,
●arry
a
Hell
within
Themselves
,
and
are
Damn'd
even
above
ground
;
and
so
He
return'd
to
his
Usual
Clamours
.
Upon
this
,
I
left
him
,
miserably
sad
and
pensive
.
Well
,
thought
I
,
what
a
weight
of
sin
lyes
upon
this
Creatures
Conscience
!
Whereupon
the
Devil
observing
me
in
a
Muse
,
told
me
in
my
Ear
,
that
this
Fellow
had
been
an
Atheist
,
and
believ'd
neither
God
,
nor
Devil
.
Deliver
me
then
,
said
I
,
from
that
Vnsanctify'd
Wisdom
,
that
serves
us
only
for
our
further
Condemnation
.
I
was
gone
but
a
step
or
two
aside
,
and
I
saw
a
world
of
people
running
after
Burning
Chariots
,
with
a
great
many
Souls
in
them
,
and
the
Devils
tearing
them
with
Pincers
:
and
before
them
,
march't
Certain
Officers
,
making
Proclamation
of
their
Sentence
,
which
with
much
ado
I
got
near
enough
to
hear
,
and
it
was
to
this
effect
.
Divine
Iustice
hath
appointed
this
Punishment
to
the
Scandalous
,
for
giving
Ill
Examples
to
their
Neighbours
.
And
at
the
same
time
,
several
of
the
Damn'd
laid
their
sins
to
their
Charge
,
and
cry'd
out
,
that
't
was
long
of
Them
they
were
thus
Tormented
.
So
that
the
Scandalous
were
punish't
both
for
their
own
Sins
,
and
for
the
Offences
of
those
they
had
misled
to
their
Destruction
.
And
these
are
they
of
whom
't
is
said
,
that
They
had
better
never
have
been
born
.
My
very
Soul
was
full
of
Anguish
,
to
see
so
many
Doleful
Spectacles
;
and
yet
I
could
not
but
smile
,
to
see
the
Vintners
every
where
up
and
down
Hell
,
as
free
,
as
if
they
had
been
in
their
Taverns
,
and
only
Pris'ners
upon
Parole
.
I
ask't
how
they
came
by
that
Privilege
;
and
a
Devil
told
me
,
there
was
no
need
of
shackling
them
,
or
so
much
as
shutting
them
up
;
for
there
was
no
fear
of
their
making
a
'scape
,
that
took
so
much
pains
in
the
World
,
and
made
it
their
whole
Business
to
come
thither
.
Only
,
says
he
;
if
we
can
keep
them
from
throwing
Water
in
the
Fire
,
as
they
do
in
their
Wines
,
we
are
well
Enough
.
But
if
you
would
see
somewhat
worth
the
while
,
leave
these
fellows
,
and
follow
me
;
and
I
'le
shew
ye
Iudas
and
his
Brethren
,
the
Stewards
,
and
Purse-bearers
:
so
I
did
as
he
bad
me
,
and
he
brought
me
to
Iudas
,
and
his
Companions
,
who
had
no
Faces
,
divers
of
them
,
and
most
of
them
no
Foreheads
.
I
was
well
enough
pleas'd
to
see
him
,
and
to
be
better
inform'd
;
for
I
had
ever
Phansy'd
him
to
be
a
kind
of
an
Olive-colour'd
Tawny
Complexion'd
fellow
,
without
a
Beard
;
and
an
Eunuch
into
the
Bargain
:
which
perhaps
(
nay
probably
)
He
was
;
for
nothing
but
a
Capon
,
a
Thing
un-man'd
,
could
ever
have
been
guilty
of
so
sordid
,
and
Treacherous
a
Villany
,
as
to
sell
,
and
betray
his
Master
,
with
a
Kiss
;
and
after
That
,
so
Cowardly
,
as
to
hang
himself
in
Despair
,
when
he
had
done
.
I
do
believe
,
however
,
what
the
Church
says
of
him
:
That
He
had
a
Carrot
Beard
,
and
a
Red
Head
;
but
it
may
be
his
Beard
was
burn't
,
and
as
he
appear'd
to
me
in
Hell
,
I
could
not
but
take
him
for
an
Eunuch
,
which
to
deal
freely
,
is
my
Opinion
of
all
the
Devils
,
for
they
have
no
Hair
;
and
they
are
for
the
most
pa●t
all
wrinkled
,
and
Baker-legg'd
.
Iudas
was
beset
with
a
Great
many
Money-Mongers
,
and
Purse-bearers
,
that
were
telling
him
stories
of
the
pranks
they
had
play'd
,
and
the
Tricks
they
had
put
upon
their
Masters
,
after
his
Example
.
Coming
up
to
them
,
I
perceiv'd
that
their
Punishment
was
like
that
of
Titius
,
who
had
a
Vultur
continually
gnawing
upon
his
Liver
;
for
there
were
a
Number
of
Ravenous
Birds
perpetually
preying
upon
them
,
and
tearing
off
their
Flesh
;
which
grew
again
as
fast
as
they
devour'd
it
;
a
Devil
in
the
mean
time
crying
out
,
and
the
Damn'd
filling
the
whole
place
with
Clamour
and
Horrour
;
Iudas
,
with
his
Purse
,
and
his
Pot
by
his
side
,
bearing
a
large
part
in
the
Out-cry
,
and
Torment
.
I
had
a
huge
mind
(
me
thought
,
)
to
have
a
word
or
two
with
Iudas
;
and
so
I
went
to
him
with
this
Greeting
:
Thou
Perfidious
,
Impudent
,
Impious
Traytor
,
(
said
I
)
to
sell
thy
Lord
and
Master
at
so
base
a
Price
,
like
an
Avaricious
Rascal
.
If
men
,
(
said
he
)
were
not
ungrateful
,
they
would
rather
pity
,
or
Commend
me
,
for
an
Action
so
much
to
their
Advantage
,
and
done
in
Order
to
their
Redemption
.
The
Misery
is
Mine
that
am
to
have
no
part
my self
,
in
the
Benefit
I
have
procured
to
others
.
Some
Heretiques
there
are
,
(
I
must
confess
to
my
Comfort
)
that
adore
me
for
't
.
But
do
you
take
me
for
the
only
Iudas
?
No
,
No.
There
have
been
many
since
the
Death
of
my
Master
,
and
there
are
at
this
Day
,
more
wicked
,
and
ungrateful
,
Ten
thousand
times
then
my self
;
that
buy
the
Lord
of
Life
,
as
well
as
sell
him
,
scourging
and
Crucifying
him
daily
with
more
Spite
,
and
Ignominy
then
the
Iews
.
The
Truth
is
,
I
had
an
Itch
to
be
fingering
of
Money
,
and
Bartering
,
from
my
Entrance
into
the
Apostleship
.
I
began
,
you
know
,
with
the
Pot
of
Oyntment
,
which
I
would
fain
have
sold
,
under
colour
of
a
Relief
to
the
Poor
.
And
I
went
on
▪
to
the
selling
of
my
Master
,
wherein
I
did
the
World
a
greater
good
then
I
intended
,
to
my
own
irreparable
ruine
.
My
Repentance
,
now
signifies
Nothing
.
To
conclude
,
I
am
the
only
Steward
that
's
condemn'd
for
Selling
;
All
the
rest
are
damn'd
for
Buying
:
And
I
must
entreat
you
,
to
have
a
better
Opinion
of
me
;
for
if
you
'l
look
but
a
little
lower
here
,
you
'l
find
people
a
Thousand
times
worse
then
my self
.
Withdraw
draw
then
(
said
I
)
for
I
have
had
talk
enough
with
Iudas
.
I
went
down
then
,
some
few
steps
,
as
Iudas
directed
me
;
and
There
,
I
saw
a
world
of
Devils
upon
the
March
,
with
Rods
,
and
Stirrup-leathers
in
their
Hands
,
lashing
a
Company
of
handsome
Lasses
,
stark
naked
,
and
driving
them
out
of
Hell
(
which
me
thought
was
pity
,
and
if
I
had
had
some
of
them
in
a
Corner
,
I
should
have
treated
them
better
)
With
the
Stirrup-Leathers
,
they
disciplin'd
a
Litter
of
Bawds
.
I
could
not
Imagine
why
These
;
of
all
others
,
should
be
expell'd
the
place
,
and
ask't
the
Question
.
Oh
,
says
a
Devil
,
These
are
our
Factresses
in
the
world
,
and
the
best
we
have
,
so
that
we
send
them
back
again
to
bring
more
Grist
to
the
Mill
:
And
indeed
,
if
it
were
not
for
Women
,
Hell
would
be
but
thinly
peopled
;
for
what
with
the
Art
,
the
Beauty
,
and
the
Allurements
of
the
Young
Wenches
;
and
the
Sage
Advice
and
Counsel
of
the
Bawds
,
they
do
us
very
great
services
.
Nay
;
for
fear
any
of
our
Good
Friends
should
tire
upon
the
Rode
,
they
send
them
to
us
on
Horse-back
,
or
bring
them
themselves
,
e'en
to
the
very
Gates
,
lest
they
should
miss
their
way
.
Pursuing
my
journey
,
I
saw
,
a
good
way
before
me
,
a
large
Building
,
that
lookt
(
me
thought
)
like
some
Enchanted
Castle
,
or
the
Picture
of
Ill-Luck
:
It
was
all
ruinous
,
the
Chimneys
down
,
the
Planchers
all
to
pieces
,
only
the
Bars
of
the
Windows
standing
:
The
Doors
all
bedaw'd
with
dirt
,
and
patcht
up
with
Barrel-Heads
,
where
they
had
been
broken
.
The
Glass
gone
,
and
here
and
there
a
Quarrel
supply'd
with
Paper
.
I
made
no
doubt
at
first
but
the
house
was
forsaken
;
but
coming
nearer
,
I
found
it
otherwise
,
by
a
horrible
confusion
of
tongues
and
noises
within
it
.
As
I
came
just
up
to
the
Door
;
one
open'd
it
,
and
I
saw
in
the
house
many
Devils
,
Thieves
,
and
Whores
.
One
of
the
craftiest
Jades
in
the
Pack
,
placed
her self
presently
upon
the
Threshold
,
and
made
her
address
to
my
Guide
and
me
.
Gentlemen
,
says
she
,
how
comes
it
to
pass
,
I
pray'e
,
that
people
are
damn'd
both
for
giving
and
taking
?
The
Thief
is
condemn'd
for
taking
away
from
another
;
and
we
are
condemn'd
for
giving
what
is
our
own
.
I
do
not
find
,
truly
,
any
injustice
in
our
Trade
;
and
if
it
be
lawful
to
give
every
one
their
own
,
and
out
of
their
own
;
why
are
we
condemn'd
?
We
found
it
a
nice
point
,
and
sent
the
Wench
to
Counsel
learned
in
the
Law
,
for
a
resolution
in
the
Case
.
Her
mentioning
of
Thieves
made
me
inquire
after
the
Scriveners
and
Notaries
.
Is
it
possible
(
said
I
)
that
you
should
have
none
of
them
here
?
for
I
do
not
remember
that
I
have
seen
so
much
as
one
of
them
upon
the
way
;
and
yet
I
had
occasion
for
a
Scrivener
,
and
made
a
search
for
one
.
I
do
believe
indeed
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
that
you
have
not
found
any
of
them
upon
the
Road.
How
then
?
(
said
I
)
what
,
are
they
all
sav'd
?
No
,
no
(
cry'd
the
Devil
)
but
you
must
understand
,
that
they
do
not
foot
it
hither
,
as
other
mortals
;
but
come
upon
the
Wing
,
in
Troops
like
Wild-geese
;
so
that
't
is
no
wonder
you
see
none
of
them
upon
the
way
.
We
have
millions
of
them
,
but
they
cut
it
away
in
a
trice
,
for
they
are
damn'dly
rank-wing'd
,
and
will
make
a
flight
,
in
the
third
part
of
a
minute
,
betwixt
Earth
and
Hell
.
But
if
there
be
so
many
(
said
I
)
how
comes
it
we
see
none
of
them
?
For
that
(
quoth
the
Devil
)
we
change
their
names
,
when
they
come
hither
once
,
and
call
them
no
longer
Notaries
or
Scriveners
,
but
Cats
:
and
they
are
so
good
mousers
,
that
though
this
place
is
large
,
old
,
and
ruinous
;
yet
you
see
not
so
much
as
a
Rat
or
a
mouse
in
Hell
:
how
full
soever
of
all
other
sorts
of
Vermine
.
Now
ye
talk
of
Vermine
(
said
I
)
are
there
any
Catchpoles
here
?
No
not
one
(
says
he
.
)
How
so
(
quoth
I
?
)
when
I
dare
undertake
there
are
five
hundred
Rogues
of
the
Trade
for
one
that
's
ought
.
The
Reason
is
(
says
the
Devil
)
that
every
Catchpole
upon
Earth
,
carries
a
Hell
in
's
Bosom
.
You
have
still
(
said
I
,
crossing
my self
)
an
aking
tooth
at
those
poor
Varlets
.
Why
not
(
cry'd
he
)
for
they
are
but
Devils
incarnate
,
and
so
damn'dly
verst
in
the
art
of
tormenting
,
that
we
live
in
continual
dread
of
losing
our
places
,
and
that
his
Infernal
Majesty
should
take
these
Rascals
into
his
Service
.
I
had
enough
of
this
,
and
travelling
on
,
I
saw
a
little
way
off
,
a
great
enclosure
,
and
a
world
of
Souls
shut
up
in
't
;
some
of
them
weeping
and
lamenting
without
measure
,
others
in
a
profound
silence
.
And
this
I
understood
to
be
the
Lovers
Quarter
.
It
sadn'd
me
to
consider
,
that
Death
it self
could
not
kill
the
lamentations
of
Lovers
.
Some
of
them
were
discoursing
their
passions
,
and
teizing
themselves
with
fears
and
jelousies
;
casting
all
their
miseries
upon
their
appetites
and
phansies
,
that
still
made
the
Picture
infinitely
fairer
than
the
Person
.
They
were
for
the
most
part
troubled
with
a
simple
disease
,
call'd
(
as
the
Devil
told
me
)
I
Thought
.
I
askt
him
what
that
was
,
and
he
answer'd
me
,
it
was
a
Punishment
suitable
to
their
Offence
:
for
your
Lovers
,
when
they
fall
short
of
their
Expectations
,
either
in
the
pursuit
,
or
enjoyment
of
their
Mistresses
,
they
are
wont
to
say
,
Alas
!
I
Thought
she
would
have
lov'd
me
:
I
Thought
she
would
never
have
prest
me
to
marry
her
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
been
a
Fortune
to
me
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
given
me
all
she
had
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
cost
me
nothing
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
askt
me
nothing
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
been
true
to
my
Bed
:
I
Thought
she
would
have
bin
dutiful
and
modest
:
I
Thought
she
would
never
have
kept
her
Gallant
.
So
that
all
their
Pain
and
damnation
comes
from
I
thought
This
or
That
,
or
So
,
or
So.
In
the
middle
of
them
was
Cupid
,
a
little
beggarly
Rogue
,
and
as
naked
as
he
was
born
,
only
here
and
there
cover'd
with
an
odd
kind
of
Embroidery
;
but
whether
it
was
the
workmanship
of
the
Itch
,
Pox
,
or
Measles
,
I
could
not
perfectly
discover
;
and
●lose
by
him
was
this
Inscription
.
Many
a
good
Fortune
goes
to
wrack
;
And
so
does
many
an
able
b●ck
;
With
following
Whores
,
&
Cards
&
Dice
▪
We
're
Pox'd
and
beggar'd
in
a●trice
.
A
ha
!
(
said
I
)
by
these
Rimes
methinks
the
Poets
should
not
be
far
off
;
and
the
word
was
hardly
out
of
my
mouth
,
when
I
discovered
millions
of
them
through
a
Park-Pale
,
and
so
I
stopt
to
look
up●n
them
.
(
It
s●●ms
in
H●ll
they
are
not
call'd
Poets
now
,
but
Fools
)
One
of
them
shew'd
me
the
Women's
Quarter
there
hard
by
,
and
askt
me
what
I
thought
of
it
,
and
of
the
handsome
Ladies
in
it
.
Is
it
not
true
(
says
he
)
that
a
Buxome
Lass
is
a
kind
of
half-Chambermaid
to
a
man
?
when
she
has
stript
him
and
brought
him
to
Bed
,
she
has
done
her
business
,
and
never
troubles
her self
any
further
about
the
helping
him
up
again
,
and
dressing
him
.
How
now
(
said
I
?
)
have
ye
your
Quirks
and
Conceipts
in
Hell
?
In
troth
ye
are
pleasant
:
I
thought
your
edge
had
been
taken
off
.
With
that
,
out
stept
the
most
miserable
Wretch
of
the
whole
Company
laden
with
Irons
:
Ah!
(
quoth
he
)
I
would
to
God
the
first
Inventer
of
Rimes
and
Poetry
were
here
in
my
Place
,
and
then
he
went
on
with
this
following
and
sad
Complaint
.
A
Complaint
of
the
Poets
in
Hell
:
Oh
,
this
damn'd
trade
of
Versifying
Has
brought
us
all
to
Hell
for
lying
For
writing
what
we
do
not
think
,
Meerly
to
make
the
Verse
cry
clink
.
For
rather
than
abuse
the
meeter
,
Black
shall
be
white
,
Paul
shall
be
Peter
.
One
time
I
call'd
a
Lady
,
Whore
;
Which
in
my
Soul
she
was
no
more
Than
I
am
;
a
brave
Lass
,
no
Beggar
,
And
true
,
as
ever
man
laid
leg
o're
.
Not
out
of
malice
,
Iove's
my
witness
,
But
meerly
for
the
Verses
fitness
.
Now
we
're
all
made
,
said
I
,
if
luck
hold
,
And
then
I
call'd
a
fellow
Cuckold
;
Though
the
Wife
was
(
or
I
'll
be
hang'd
)
As
good
a
Wench
as
ever
twang'd
.
I
was
once
plaguely
put
to
't
;
This
would
not
hit
,
that
would
not
do
't
;
At
last
,
I
circumcis'd
(
't
is
true
)
A
Christian
,
and
baptiz'd
a
Iew.
Nay
I
've
made
Herod
Innocent
For
Riming
to
Long-Parliament
:
Now
to
conclude
,
we
are
all
damn'd
ho
,
For
nothing
but
a
game
at
Crambo
.
And
for
a
little
jingling
pleasure
,
Condemn'd
to
Torments
without
measure
:
Which
is
a
little
hard
in
my
sense
,
To
fry
thus
for
Poetick
Licence
.
'T
is
not
for
sin
of
Thought
or
Deed
,
But
for
bare
sounds
,
and
words
we
bleed
:
While
the
Cur
Cerberus
lies
growling
In
consort
with
our
catterwowling
.
So
soon
as
he
had
done
;
There
is
not
in
the
world
(
said
I
)
a
more
ridiculous
phrensie
,
than
yours
,
to
be
poetizing
in
Hell
.
The
humour
sticks
close
sure
,
or
the
fire
would
have
fetcht
it
out
.
Nay
(
cry'd
a
Devil
)
these
Versifiers
are
a
strange
Generation
of
Buffons
.
The
time
that
others
spend
in
Tears
and
Groans
for
their
sins
and
follies
;
these
Wretches
employ
in
Songs
and
Madrigals
;
and
if
they
chance
to
light
upon
the
critical
minute
,
and
get
a
snap
at
a
Lady
,
all
's
worth
nothing
,
unless
the
whole
Kingdom
ring
of
it
,
in
some
miserable
Sing-song
or
other
,
under
the
name
forsooth
of
Phillis
,
Chloris
,
Sylvia
,
or
the
like
:
and
the
goodly
Idol
must
be
deckt
and
drest
up
with
Diamond
,
Pearl
,
Rubies
,
Musque
,
and
Amber
,
and
both
the
Indies
are
too
little
to
furnish
Eyes
,
Lips
,
and
Teeth
for
this
Imaginary
Goddess
.
And
yet
after
all
this
magnificence
and
bounty
,
it
would
put
the
poor
Devil's
credit
upon
the
stretch
,
to
take
up
an
Old
Petty-coat
in
Long-Lane
,
or
a
pair
of
Cast-shooes
,
at
the
next
Coblers
.
Beside
;
we
can
give
no
Account
either
of
their
Countrey
,
or
Religion
.
They
have
Christian
Names
,
but
most
Heretical
Souls
;
They
are
Arabians
in
their
Hearts
:
and
in
their
Language
,
Gentiles
;
but
to
say
the
Truth
,
they
fall
short
of
the
right
Pagans
in
their
Manners
.
If
I
stay
here
a
little
longer
,
(
said
I
to
my self
)
This
spiteful
Devil
will
hit
me
over
the
Thumbs
e're
I
'm
aware
;
for
I
was
half
Jealous
,
that
he
took
me
already
for
a
piece
of
a
Poet.
For
fear
of
being
Discover'd
,
I
went
my
way
,
and
my
Next
Visit
was
to
the
Impertinent
Devotes
;
whose
very
Prayers
are
made
up
of
Impiety
,
and
Extravagance
.
Oh!
what
Sighing
was
there
,
and
Sobbing
!
Groning
,
and
Whining
!
Their
Tongues
were
ty'd
up
to
a
perpetual
Silence
;
Their
Souls
,
Drooping
;
and
their
Ears
condemn'd
to
hear
eternally
the
hideous
cryes
and
Reproaches
of
a
wheasing
Devil
,
greeting
them
after
this
manner
.
Oh
,
Ye
Impudent
and
Profane
Abusers
of
Prayer
,
and
Holy
Duties
!
that
treat
the
Lord
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
in
His
own
house
,
with
le●●
respect
then
ye
would
do
a
Merchant
upon
the
Change
,
sneaking
into
a
Corner
with
your
Execrable
Petitions
,
for
fear
of
being
over-heard
by
your
Neighbours
;
and
yet
without
any
scruple
at
all
,
ye
can
Expose
,
and
offer
them
up
to
that
Eternal
Purity
!
shameless
Wretches
that
ye
are
!
Lord
,
(
says
one
)
take
the
Old
man
,
my
Father
,
to
thy self
,
I
beseech
Thee
,
that
I
may
have
his
Office
and
Estate
.
Oh
,
that
this
Vncle
of
mine
would
but
march
off
!
There
's
a
Fat
Bishoprick
,
and
a
good
Deanery
;
I
would
the
Devil
had
the
Incumbent
so
I
had
the
Dignity
.
Now
for
a
lusty
Pot
of
Guinneys
,
or
a
Lucky
hand
at
Dice
if
it
be
thy
pleasure
,
and
then
I
would
not
doubt
of
good
Matches
for
my
Children
.
Lord
,
make
me
His
Majesties
Favourite
and
Thy
Servant
;
that
I
may
get
what
's
Convenient
,
and
keep
what
I
have
gotten
.
Grant
me
This
,
and
I
do
here
engage
my self
,
to
entertain
six
Blew-Coats
,
and
Bind
them
out
to
good
Trades
;
to
set
up
a
Lecture
for
every
day
of
the
Week
;
to
give
one
Third
part
of
my
clear
gains
to
Charitable
Vses
;
and
another
,
toward
the
Repairing
of
Pauls
;
and
to
pay
all
honest
Debts
,
so
far
as
may
stand
with
my
Private
Convenience
.
Blind
and
Ridiculous
Madness
!
for
Dust
and
Ashes
thus
to
reason
and
Condition
with
the
Almighty
!
for
Beggars
to
talk
of
Giving
,
and
obtrude
their
Vain
and
unprofitable
Offerings
upon
the
Inexhaustible
fountain
of
Riches
and
Bounty
!
To
Pray
for
Those
things
as
Blessings
,
which
are
commonly
showr'd
down
upon
us
for
our
Confusion
and
Punishment
.
And
then
in
Case
your
Wishes
take
effect
;
what
becomes
of
all
the
Sacred
Vows
and
Promises
ye
made
,
in
storms
,
(
perhaps
)
Sickness
,
or
Adversity
?
so
soon
as
ye
have
gain'd
your
Port
,
recover'd
your
Health
;
or
Patch'd
up
a
Broken
Fortune
,
you
shew
your selves
,
all
of
ye
,
a
pack
of
Cheats
;
Your
Vows
,
and
Promises
are
not
worth
so
many
Rushes
:
They
are
forgotten
with
your
Dreams
;
and
to
keep
a
Promise
upon
Devotion
,
that
you
made
out
of
Necessity
,
is
no
Article
of
your
Religion
.
Why
do
ye
not
ask
for
Peace
of
Conscience
?
Encrease
of
Grace
?
The
Aid
of
the
Blessed
Spirit
?
But
you
are
too
much
taken
up
with
the
Things
of
this
World
,
to
attend
those
spiritual
Advantages
and
Treasures
;
and
to
consider
,
that
the
most
acceptable
Sacrifices
and
Oblations
you
can
make
to
the
Almighty
,
are
Purity
of
Mind
,
an
humble
Spirit
,
and
a
Fervent
Charity
.
The
Almighty
takes
delight
to
be
often
call'd
upon
,
that
He
may
often
pour
down
his
Blessings
upon
his
Pe●itioners
.
But
such
is
the
Corruption
of
Humane
Nature
,
that
Men
seldom
think
of
him
,
unless
under
affliction
;
and
therefore
it
is
,
that
they
are
often
Visited
;
for
by
Adversity
,
they
are
brought
to
the
Knowledg
,
and
Exercise
of
their
Duty
.
I
would
now
have
you
consider
,
how
little
Reason
there
is
in
your
Ordinary
Demands
.
Put
Case
you
have
your
Asking
;
what
are
you
the
better
for
the
Grant
?
since
it
fails
you
at
last
;
because
you
did
not
ask
aright
.
When
you
die
,
your
Estate
goes
to
your
Children
;
and
for
their
parts
,
you
are
scarce
cold
,
before
you
are
forgotten
.
You
are
not
to
expect
they
should
bestow
much
upon
Works
of
Charity
;
for
if
nothing
went
that
way
while
you
were
living
:
They
'l
live
after
your
Example
when
you
are
Dead
.
And
beside
;
there
's
no
Merit
in
the
Case
.
At
this
word
some
of
the
poor
Creatures
were
about
to
Reply
;
but
the
Devils
had
put
Barnacles
upon
their
Lips
,
that
Hindred
them
.
From
thence
,
I
went
to
the
Witches
and
Wizards
;
such
as
pretend
to
cure
Man
and
Beast
by
Charms
,
Words
,
Amulets
,
Characters
:
and
These
were
all
burning
alive
.
These
(
says
a
Devil
)
are
a
Company
of
Cousening
Rogues
;
the
most
accursed
Villains
in
Nature
.
If
they
help
one
man
,
they
kill
another
,
and
only
remove
the
Disease
from
a
worse
to
a
Better
:
And
yet
there
's
no
great
Clamour
against
them
neither
;
for
if
the
Patient
recover
,
hee
's
well
enough
content
,
and
the
Doctor
Gets
both
Reputation
and
Reward
for
his
Pains
.
If
He
dyes
,
his
mouth
is
stop't
,
and
forty
to
one
the
next
Heir
does
him
a
good
turn
for
the
Dispatch
.
So
that
,
Hit
,
or
Miss
;
All
is
well
at
last
.
If
you
enter
into
a
Debate
with
them
about
their
Remedies
,
They
'll
tell
you
,
they
learn't
the
Mystery
of
a
certain
Iew
;
and
There
's
the
Original
of
the
Secret
.
Now
to
hear
these
Quacks
give
you
the
History
of
their
Cures
,
is
beyond
all
the
Playes
and
Farces
in
the
World
.
You
shall
have
a
fellow
tell
you
of
fifteen
people
that
were
run
clean
through
the
Body
,
and
glad
for
a
matter
of
three
dayes
to
carry
their
Puddings
in
their
Hands
;
that
in
four
and
twenty
hours
he
made
them
as
whole
as
Fishes
,
and
no
so
much
as
a
Scar
for
a
Remembrance
of
the
Orifice
.
Ask
him
,
when
and
where
?
you
'l
find
it
some
Twelve
Hundred
Leagues
off
,
in
a
Terra
Incog●ita
,
by
the
Token
,
that
at
that
time
he
was
Physician
in
Ordinary
to
a
great
Prince
that
dy'd
about
five
and
twenty
years
ago
.
Come
,
Come
;
(
Cry'd
a
Devil
)
make
an
End
of
this
Visit
,
and
you
shall
see
those
now
,
that
Iudas
told
you
were
ten
times
Worse
then
himself
.
I
went
along
with
him
,
and
he
brought
me
to
a
Passage
into
a
great
Hall
,
where
there
was
a
Damn'd
smell
of
Brimstone
,
and
a
Company
of
Match-makers
,
as
I
thought
at
first
;
but
they
prov'd
afterward
to
be
Alchymists
,
and
the
Devils
examining
them
upon
Interrogatories
,
who
were
filthily
put
to
't
,
to
understand
their
Gibbrish
.
Their
Talk
was
much
of
the
Planetary
Mettals
;
Gold
they
call'd
Sol
;
Silver
,
Luna
;
Tin
,
Iupiter
;
Copper
,
Venus
.
They
had
about
them
,
their
Fornaces
,
Crucibles
,
Coal
,
Bellows
,
Clay
,
Minerals
,
Dung
,
Man's
Bloud
,
Powders
,
and
Alimbecks
.
Some
were
Calcining
;
Others
Washing
;
Here
Purifying
;
There
Separating
.
Fixing
what
was
Volatile
,
in
one
place
;
and
Rarifying
what
was
Fix
in
another
.
Some
were
upon
the
Work
of
Transmutation
,
and
Fixing
of
Mercury
with
Monstrous
Hammers
,
upon
an
Anvile
.
And
after
they
had
resolv'd
the
Viscous
matter
,
and
sent
out
the
subtler
parts
,
that
they
came
to
the
Coppel
,
All
went
away
in
Fume
.
Some
again
were
in
a
hot
dispute
,
What
Fuel
was
best
;
and
whether
Raymund
Lullius
his
Fire
,
and
no
Fire
,
could
be
any
thing
else
then
Lime
;
or
otherwise
to
be
understood
of
the
Light
Effective
of
Heat
,
and
not
of
the
Effective
Heat
of
Fire
.
Others
were
making
their
Entrance
upon
the
Great
Work
,
after
the
Hermetical
Method
.
Here
they
were
watching
the
Progress
of
their
Operations
,
and
making
their
Observations
upon
Proportions
,
and
Colour
.
While
all
the
rest
of
these
blind
Oracles
lay
waiting
for
the
Recovery
of
the
Materia
Prima
:
till
they
brought
themselves
to
the
last
Cast
both
of
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
:
and
instead
of
turning
Base
Mettals
and
Materials
into
Gold
,
as
they
pretended
;
they
made
the
Contrary
Inversion
,
and
were
glad
at
length
to
take
up
with
Beggarly
Fools
,
and
False
Coiners
.
What
a
stir
was
there
,
with
crying
out
,
ever
and
anon
!
Look
ye
,
Look
ye
!
The
old
Father
is
got
up
again
;
Down
with
him
,
Down
with
him
;
What
Glossing
,
and
Commenting
upon
the
o●d
Chymical
Text
,
that
says
;
Blessed
be
Heaven
,
That
has
order'd
the
most
Excellent
thing
in
Nature
out
of
the
Vilest
.
If
so
,
(
quoth
one
)
let
's
try
,
if
we
can
fetch
the
Philosophers
Stone
out
of
a
Common
Strumpet
,
which
is
of
all
Creatures
undoubtedly
the
Vilest
.
And
the
Word
was
no
sooner
out
,
but
a
matter
〈◊〉
Three
and
Twenty
Whores
went
to
Pot
,
but
the
Flesh
was
so
Cursedly
Mawmish
and
Rotten
,
that
they
soon
gave
over
the
Thought
of
that
Projection
.
And
then
they
entred
upon
a
fresh
Consultation
,
and
concluded
,
Nemine
Contradicente
,
that
the
Mathematicians
,
by
that
rule
,
were
the
only
fit
matter
to
work
upon
;
as
being
most
damnably
dry
,
(
to
say
nothing
of
their
Divisions
,
among
,
and
against
themselves
)
so
that
with
one
Voice
,
they
call'd
for
a
parcel
of
Mathematicians
,
to
the
Fornace
,
to
begin
the
Experiment
.
But
a
Devil
came
in
just
in
the
God-speed
,
and
told
them
;
Gentlemen
Philosophers
,
(
says
he
)
if
you
would
know
the
Wretched'st
,
and
most
contemptible
thing
in
the
World
;
It
is
an
Alchymist
:
and
we
are
of
Opinion
,
that
you
'l
make
as
Good
Philosopher's
stones
,
as
the
Mathematicians
.
However
,
for
Curiosity's
sake
,
wee
'l
try
for
Once
;
and
so
he
threw
them
all
together
into
a
great
Caldron
;
and
to
say
the
Truth
,
the
poor
Snakes
suffer'd
very
contentedly
;
out
of
a
desire
I
suppose
,
to
help
on
toward
the
perfecting
of
the
Operation
.
On
the
other
side
,
we●e
a
Knot
of
Astrologers
,
and
one
among
the
rest
that
had
study'd
Chiromancy
or
Palmestry
;
who
took
all
the
Damn'd
by
the
Hands
,
one
after
another
.
One
he
told
,
that
it
was
as
plain
as
the
Nose
on
his
Face
,
that
he
was
to
go
to
the
Devil
,
for
he
perceiv'd
it
by
the
Mount
of
Saturn
.
You
(
says
he
to
another
)
have
been
a
Swindging
Whore-master
in
your
Days
;
I
see
that
by
the
Mount
of
Venus
here
,
and
by
her
Girdle
;
and
in
short
;
every
Man's
Destiny
he
read
in
his
Fist.
After
him
advanced
another
,
Creeping
upon
all
four
;
with
a
pair
of
Compasses
betwixt
his
Teeth
;
his
Spheres
and
Globes
about
him
;
his
Iacob's
staffe
before
him
;
and
his
Eyes
upon
the
Stars
,
as
if
he
were
taking
a
Height
,
or
making
an
Observation
.
When
he
had
gazed
a
while
,
up
he
starts
of
a
sudden
,
and
wringing
his
Hands
,
Good
Lord
(
says
he
)
What
an
Vnlucky
Dog
was
I
!
If
I
had
come
into
the
World
,
but
one
half
quarter
of
an
hour
sooner
,
I
had
been
sav'd
;
for
Just
then
Saturn
shifted
,
and
Mars
was
lodg'd
in
the
house
of
Life
.
One
that
follow'd
him
,
bad
his
Tormentors
be
sure
he
was
Dead
,
for
(
says
he
)
I
am
a
little
doubtful
of
it
my self
;
in
regard
that
I
had
Iupiter
for
my
Ascendent
,
and
Venus
in
the
House
of
Life
,
and
no
Malevolent
Aspect
to
cross
me
.
So
that
by
the
Rules
of
Astrology
,
I
was
to
live
,
precisely
,
a
hundred
years
and
one
;
Two
Months
,
Six
days
,
four
Hours
,
and
Three
Minutes
.
The
next
that
came
up
was
a
Geomancer
;
one
that
reduced
all
his
Skill
to
Certain
little
points
,
and
by
them
would
tell
you
,
as
well
things
past
,
as
to
come
:
These
points
he
bestow'd
at
a
Venture
,
among
several
unequal
lines
;
some
long
,
others
shorter
,
like
the
Fingers
of
a
Man's
Hand
;
and
then
with
a
certain
Ribble-Rabble
of
Mysterious
Words
,
he
proceeds
to
his
Calculation
,
upon
Even
,
or
Odd
,
and
challenges
the
whole
world
to
allow
him
the
most
learned
,
and
Infallible
of
the
Trade
.
There
were
Divers
great
Masters
of
the
Science
that
follow'd
him
.
As
Haly
,
Gerard
,
Bart'lemew
of
Parma
,
and
one
Toudin
;
a
familiar
Friend
,
and
Companion
of
the
Great
Cornelius
Agrippa
,
the
famous
Conjurer
:
who
though
he
had
but
one
Soul
,
was
yet
burning
in
four
Bodies
.
(
I
mean
the
four
Damnable
Books
he
left
behind
him
.
)
There
was
Trithemius
too
,
with
his
Polygraphy
,
and
Stenography
:
that
had
Devils
now
,
his
Belly
full
,
though
in
his
Life
time
his
Complaint
was
,
that
He
could
never
have
enough
of
their
Company
:
Over
against
him
was
Cardan
;
but
they
could
not
set
their
horses
together
,
because
of
an
old
Quarrel
;
whether
was
the
more
Impudent
of
the
Two
.
And
there
I
saw
Misaldus
,
tearing
his
Beard
,
in
Rage
,
to
find
himself
Pumpt
dry
;
and
that
he
could
not
fool
on
,
to
the
End
of
the
Chapter
.
Theophrastus
was
there
too
,
bewailing
himself
for
the
Time
he
had
spent
at
the
Alchymists
Bellows
.
There
was
also
the
Unknown
Author
of
Clavicula
Solomonis
,
and
The
Hundred
Kings
of
Spirits
;
with
the
Composer
of
the
Book
,
Adversus
Omnia
pericula
Mundi
.
Taysnerus
too
,
with
his
Book
of
Physiognomy
,
and
Chiromancy
;
and
He
was
doubly
punish't
,
first
for
the
Fool
he
was
;
and
then
for
those
he
had
made
▪
Though
to
give
the
Man
his
Due
,
He
knew
himself
to
be
a
Cheat
,
and
that
he
that
gives
a
Judgment
upon
the
Lines
of
a
Face
,
takes
but
a
very
uncertain
aim
.
There
were
Magicians
,
Necromancers
,
Sorcerers
,
and
Enchanters
innumerable
,
beside
divers
private
Boxes
that
were
kept
for
Lords
and
Ladies
;
and
other
Personages
of
great
quality
,
that
put
their
trust
in
these
Disciples
of
the
Devil
,
and
go
to
Strand-Bridge
or
Billeter-Lane
,
for
resolution
in
cases
of
Death
,
Love
,
or
Marriage
,
and
now
and
then
to
recover
a
Gold
Watch
or
a
Pearl
Neck-lace
.
Not
far
from
these
,
were
a
company
of
handsome
Women
,
that
were
tormented
in
the
quality
of
Witches
;
which
griev'd
my
very
heart
to
see
it
:
but
to
comfort
me
,
What
?
(
says
a
Devil
)
Have
you
so
soon
forgot
the
roguery
of
these
Carrions
?
Have
you
not
had
tryal
enough
yet
of
them
?
they
are
the
very
poyson
of
life
,
and
the
only
dangerous
Magicians
that
corrupt
all
our
senses
,
and
disturb
the
faculties
of
your
soul
;
these
are
they
that
cousen
your
Eyes
with
false
appearances
,
and
set
up
your
wills
in
opposition
to
your
Vnderstanding
and
Reason
.
'T
is
right
,
said
I
,
and
now
you
mind
me
of
it
,
I
do
very
well
remember
,
that
I
have
found
them
so
;
but
let
's
go
on
and
see
the
rest
.
I
was
scarce
gone
three
steps
further
,
but
I
was
got
into
so
hideous
a
dark
place
,
that
it
was
e'en
a
mercy
we
knew
where
we
were
.
There
was
first
at
the
entrance
,
Divine
Iustice
,
which
was
most
dreadful
to
behold
;
and
a
little
beyond
stood
Vice
,
with
a
countenance
of
the
highest
pride
and
insolence
imaginable
:
There
was
Ingratitude
,
Malice
,
Ignorance
,
obstinate
and
incorrigible
Infidelity
,
brutish
and
head-strong
Disobedience
,
rash
and
imperious
Blasphemy
,
with
Garments
dipt
in
bloud
,
Eyes
sparkling
,
and
a
hundred
pair
of
Chops
,
barking
at
Providence
,
and
vomiting
rage
and
poyson
.
I
went
in
(
I
confess
)
with
fear
and
trembling
)
and
there
I
saw
all
the
Sects
of
Idolaters
and
Hereticks
,
that
ever
yet
appeared
upon
the
stage
of
the
Universe
:
And
at
their
feet
,
in
a
glorious
array
,
was
lascivious
Barbara
,
second
Wife
to
the
Emperor
Sigismund
,
and
the
Queen
of
Harlots
:
One
that
agreed
with
Messalina
in
This
,
that
Virginity
was
both
a
burden
and
a
folly
;
and
that
in
her
whole
life
she
was
never
either
wearied
or
satisfy'd
;
but
herein
she
went
beyond
her
;
in
that
she
held
the
mortality
as
well
of
the
Soul
as
of
the
Body
;
but
she
was
now
better
instructed
,
and
burnt
like
a
bundle
of
Matches
.
Passing
forward
still
,
I
spy'd
a
fellow
in
a
corner
,
all
alone
,
with
the
flames
about
his
ears
,
gnashing
his
teeth
,
and
blaspheming
through
fury
and
despair
.
I
askt
him
what
he
was
,
and
he
told
me
he
was
Mahomet
.
Why
then
(
said
I
)
thou
art
the
damn'dest
Reprobate
in
Hell
,
and
hast
brought
more
Wretches
hither
than
half
the
World
beside
:
and
Lucifer
has
done
well
to
allot
thee
a
Quarter
here
by
thy self
,
for
certainly
thou
hast
well
deserv'd
the
first
place
in
his
Dominions
.
But
since
every
man
chuses
to
talk
of
what
he
loves
,
I
prethee
good
Imposter
tell
me
,
What
's
the
reason
that
thou
hast
forbidden
Wine
to
all
thy
Disciples
?
Oh
(
says
he
)
I
have
made
them
so
drunk
with
my
Alchoran
they
need
no
Tipple
.
But
why
hast
thou
forbidden
them
Swines-flesh
too
(
said
I
?
)
because
(
says
he
)
I
would
not
affront
the
Iambon
;
for
Water
upon
Gammon
,
would
be
false
Heraldry
.
And
beside
I
never
lov'd
my
people
well
enough
to
afford
them
the
pleasure
,
either
of
the
Grape
or
the
Spare-Rib
.
Nay
,
and
for
fear
they
should
chance
to
grope
out
the
way
to
Heaven
,
I
have
establisht
my
power
and
my
Dominion
by
force
of
Arms
;
without
subjecting
my
Laws
to
idle
disputes
and
discourses
of
reason
.
Indeed
there
is
little
of
Reason
in
my
Precepts
,
and
I
would
have
as
little
in
their
obedience
.
A
world
of
Disciples
I
have
,
but
I
think
they
follow
me
more
out
of
appetite
than
Religion
,
or
for
the
miracles
I
work
.
I
allow
them
Liberty
of
Conscience
;
they
have
as
many
Women
as
they
please
,
and
do
what
they
list
,
provided
they
meddle
not
with
the
Government
.
But
look
about
ye
now
,
and
you
'l
find
that
there
are
more
Knaves
than
Mahomet
.
I
did
so
,
and
found
my self
presently
surrounded
with
a
Ring
of
Hereticks
,
and
their
Adherents
;
many
of
which
were
ready
to
tear
out
the
Throats
of
their
Leaders
.
One
among
the
rest
was
beset
with
a
brace
of
Devils
,
and
either
of
them
a
pair
of
Bellows
,
puffing
into
each
ear
Fire
instead
of
Air
,
which
made
him
a
little
hot-headed
.
There
was
another
,
that
;
as
I
was
told
,
was
a
kind
of
a
Symoniac
,
and
had
taken
up
his
seat
in
a
Pestilential
Chair
;
but
it
was
so
dark
I
could
not
well
discern
whether
it
was
a
Pope
or
a
Presbyter
.
By
this
time
I
had
enough
of
Hell
,
and
began
to
wish
my self
out
again
;
but
as
I
was
looking
about
for
a
Retreat
,
I
stumbled
upon
a
Long
Gallery
before
I
was
aware
:
and
there
I
saw
Lucifer
himself
with
all
his
Nobility
about
him
,
male
and
female
.
(
For
let
marry'd
men
say
their
pleasure
,
there
are
she-Devils
too
)
I
should
have
been
at
a
damn'd
loss
what
to
do
,
or
how
to
behave
my self
among
so
many
strange
faces
,
if
one
of
the
Vshers
had
not
come
to
me
,
and
told
me
,
that
being
a
stranger
,
it
was
his
Majesties
pleasure
,
I
should
enter
and
have
free
liberty
of
seeing
what
was
there
to
be
seen
.
We
exchang'd
a
couple
or
two
of
Complements
,
and
then
I
began
to
look
about
me
,
but
never
did
I
see
a
Palace
so
furnisht
,
nor
indeed
comparable
to
it
.
Our
Furniture
at
the
best
is
but
a
choice
collection
of
dead
and
dumb
Statues
,
or
paintings
without
life
,
sense
,
or
motion
:
But
there
,
all
the
pieces
were
animated
,
and
no
trash
in
the
whole
Inventory
.
There
was
hardly
any
thing
to
be
seen
,
but
Emperors
and
Princes
,
with
some
few
(
perhaps
)
of
their
choicest
Nobility
and
Privados
.
The
first
Banque
was
taken
up
by
the
Ottoman
Family
;
and
after
them
sate
the
Roman
Emperors
,
in
their
order
;
and
the
Roman
Kings
down
to
Tarquin
the
proud
;
beside
Highnesses
and
Graces
,
Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal
innumerable
.
My
Lungs
began
now
to
call
for
a
little
fresh
air
,
and
I
desired
my
Guide
to
shew
me
the
way
out
again
.
Yes
,
yes
,
with
all
my
heart
(
says
he
)
follow
me
then
:
And
so
he
carry'd
me
away
by
a
back
passage
into
Lucifer's
House
of
Office
,
where
there
was
I
know
not
how
many
Tun
of
Sr
Reverence
,
and
Bales
of
flattering
Panegyricks
,
not
to
be
number'd
;
all
of
them
Licens'd
,
and
Enter'd
according
to
Order
.
I
could
not
but
smile
at
this
provision
of
Tail-Timber
,
and
my
Guide
took
notice
of
it
;
who
was
a
good
kind
of
a
damn'd
Droll
.
But
I
call'd
still
to
be
gone
,
and
at
length
he
led
me
to
a
little
hole
like
the
vent
of
a
Vault
,
and
I
crept
through
it
as
nimbly
as
if
the
Devil
himself
had
given
me
a
lift
at
the
Crupper
;
when
to
my
great
wonder
,
I
found
my self
in
the
Park
again
,
where
I
begun
my
story
:
not
without
an
odd
medly
of
Passions
,
partly
reflecting
upon
what
others
endur'd
,
and
in
part
,
upon
my
own
condition
of
ease
and
happiness
,
that
had
deserv'd
,
perhaps
,
the
contrary
as
well
as
they
.
This
thought
put
me
upon
a
resolution
of
leading
such
a
course
of
life
,
for
the
future
,
that
I
might
not
come
to
feel
these
torments
in
Reality
,
which
I
had
now
only
seen
in
Vision
.
And
I
must
here
entreat
the
Reader
to
follow
my
example
,
without
making
any
further
experiment
;
and
likewise
not
to
cast
an
ill
construction
upon
a
fair
meaning
.
My
design
is
to
discredit
,
and
discountenance
the
works
of
darkness
,
without
scandalizing
of
Persons
;
and
since
I
speak
only
of
the
damn'd
,
I
'm
sure
no
honest
man
alive
will
reckon
this
discourse
a
Satyre
.
The
end
of
the
sixth
Vision
.
THE
SEVENTH
VISION
OF
HELL
REFORM'D
.
THere
happen'd
lately
so
terrible
an
Vproar
,
and
Disorder
in
Hell
,
that
(
though
it
be
a
place
of
perpetual
Outrage
,
and
Confusion
)
the
oldest
Devil
there
never
knew
the
Fellow
of
it
;
and
the
Inhabitants
expected
nothing
less
then
an
absolute
Topsy-Turvy
,
and
Dissolution
of
their
Empire
.
The
Devils
fell
upon
the
Damn'd
;
and
the
Damn'd
fell
upon
the
Devils
,
without
knowing
One
from
t'other
:
and
all
running
helter-skelter
,
to
and
again
,
like
Mad
;
for
in
fine
,
it
was
no
other
then
a
general
Revolt
.
This
Hurly-Burly
lasted
a
good
while
,
before
any
Mortal
could
imagine
the
meaning
of
it
;
but
at
length
,
there
came
certain
Intelligence
of
a
Monstrous
Talker
;
A
Pragmatical
,
Medling
Vndertaker
,
and
an
old
Bawd
of
a
Gouvernante
,
that
had
knock't
off
their
Shackles
,
and
made
all
this
Havock
:
Which
may
give
the
Reader
to
Vnderstand
what
kind
of
Cattel
These
are
,
that
could
make
Hell
it self
more
Dangerous
,
and
Vnquiet
.
Lucifer
,
in
the
Mean
time
,
went
Yelping
up
and
down
,
and
Bawling
,
for
Chains
,
Hand-Cuffes
,
Bolts
,
Manacles
,
Shackles
,
Fetters
,
to
tye
up
his
Pris'ners
again
;
when
,
in
the
Middle
of
his
Carriere
,
He
and
the
Babler
,
or
Talker
,
I
told
ye
of
,
met
full-butt
;
and
after
a
little
staring
one
Another
in
the
Face
,
upon
the
Encounter
,
the
Babler
open'd
.
Prince
mine
;
(
says
he
)
you
have
a
pack
of
Lazy
,
Droning
Devils
in
your
Dominions
,
that
look
after
Nothing
,
but
sit
with
their
Arms
and
Legs
across
,
and
leave
all
your
affairs
at
Six
and
Seven
,
And
you
have
divers
abroad
too
,
upon
Commission
,
that
have
staid
out
their
Time
,
and
yet
give
you
no
Accompt
of
their
Employment
.
The
Gouvernante
,
that
had
been
blowing
the
Coal
,
and
Whispering
Sedition
from
one
to
another
,
chanc'd
to
pass
by
in
the
Interim
▪
and
stopping
short
,
address'd
her self
to
Lucifer
:
Look
to
your self
;
(
she
cry'd
)
there
is
a
Desperate
plot
upon
your
Diabolical
Crown
,
and
Dignity
.
There
are
Two
Tyrants
in
't
;
Three
Parasites
;
A
world
of
Physicians
,
and
whole
Legions
of
Lawyers
,
and
Atturneys
.
One
word
more
in
your
Ear.
There
is
among
them
,
a
mungrel
Priest
(
a
kind
of
a
Lay-Elder
)
that
will
go
near
to
sit
upon
your
Skirts
,
if
you
have
not
a
care
of
him
.
At
the
very
name
of
Priest
,
and
Lay-Elder
,
Lucifer
look't
as
Pale
as
Death
;
stood
stone-still
;
as
mute
as
a
Fish
;
and
in
his
very
looks
,
discover'd
his
Apprehensions
.
After
a
little
pause
,
he
rous'd
himself
,
as
out
of
a
Trance
;
A
Priest
do
ye
say
?
a
Lay-Elder
?
Tyrants
?
Lawyers
?
Physicians
?
A
Composition
(
he
cryes
)
to
poyson
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
and
purge
their
very
Guts
out
.
With
that
,
away
he
went
to
visit
the
Avenues
,
and
set
his
Guards
,
and
who
should
he
meet
next
,
but
the
Medler
?
in
a
monstrous
hast
,
and
hurry
.
Nay
then
(
says
he
)
here
is
the
Forerunner
of
Ill-Luck
.
But
what
's
the
Matter
?
The
Matter
?
cry'd
the
Medler
;
And
then
with
a
huge
deal
of
tedious
,
and
Impertinent
Circumstance
,
he
up
,
and
told
him
,
that
a
great
many
of
the
Damn'd
had
Contriv'd
an
Escape
;
and
that
there
was
a
Design
to
call
in
four
or
five
Regiments
of
Hypocrites
,
and
Vsurers
,
under
colour
forsooth
of
Establishing
a
better
Intelligence
betwixt
Earth
,
and
Hell
,
with
a
Hundred
other
Fopperies
;
and
had
gone
on
till
this
time
,
if
Lucifer
would
have
found
Ears
.
But
he
had
other
Fish
to
fry
;
for
Neck
and
All
was
now
at
Stake
;
and
so
he
went
about
his
Business
of
putting
all
in
a
posture
,
and
strengthening
his
Guards
.
And
for
the
further
Security
of
his
Royal
Person
,
he
entertain'd
into
his
own
Immediate
Regiment
,
several
Reformadoes
of
the
Society
,
that
he
particularly
knew
to
be
no
Flinchers
.
He
began
his
Survey
in
the
Vaults
,
and
Dungeons
,
among
his
Iaylers
,
and
Pris'ners
.
The
Make-Bate
Babler
March't
in
the
Van
,
breathing
an
Air
that
kindled
,
and
Enflam'd
wherever
he
past
,
without
giving
any
Light
(
setting
People
together
by
the
Ears
,
they
know
not
why
)
In
the
second
Place
the
Gouvernante
,
as
full
of
News
,
and
Tittle-Tattle
as
she
could
hold
,
and
telling
her
tale
all
the
way
she
went
.
In
the
Breech
of
her
,
follow'd
the
Medler
,
learing
as
he
past
along
,
first
on
one
side
,
then
on
the
Other
,
without
ever
moving
his
Head
,
and
making
fair
with
every
Soul
He
saw
in
's
way
.
He
gave
One
,
a
Bowe
;
T'
other
,
a
Kiss
;
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
to
a
Third
;
Can
I
serve
you
Sir
to
a
Fourth
:
But
every
Complement
was
worse
to
the
poor
Creatures
,
then
the
Fire
it self
.
Ah
Traytor
!
says
one
;
For
Pity
's
sake
,
away
with
this
new
Tormenter
!
crys
another
.
This
Fellow
is
Hell
upon
Hell
,
says
a
Third
.
As
he
trudg'd
on
,
there
was
a
Rabble
of
Rascals
,
got
together
;
and
in
the
Middle
of
the
Crowd
,
a
most
Eminent
Knight
of
the
Post
,
(
a
great
Master
of
his
Trade
)
that
was
reading
a
Lecture
to
that
Venerable
Assembly
,
of
the
Noble
Mystery
of
Swearing
and
Lying
;
and
would
have
taught
any
man
in
one
Quarter
of
an
hour
,
to
prove
any
thing
upon
Oath
,
that
he
never
saw
,
nor
heard
of
in
his
life
.
This
Doctor
had
no
sooner
cast
his
Eye
upon
the
Intermedler
,
but
up
he
started
in
a
Fright
.
How
no
?
says
he
;
Is
that
Devil
here
?
I
came
hither
on
purpose
t●
avoid
him
;
and
if
I
could
but
have
dream't
,
hee
'd
have
been
in
Hell
,
beyond
all
Dispute
,
I
'd
have
gone
my self
to
Paradise
.
As
He
was
speaking
,
we
heard
a
great
,
and
a
confused
Noise
of
Arms
,
Blows
,
and
Out-cryes
;
and
presently
we
discover'd
several
Persons
falling
one
upon
Another
like
lightning
;
and
in
short
with
such
a
Fury
,
that
't
is
not
for
any
Tongue
,
or
Pen
to
Des●ribe
the
Battle
.
One
of
them
appear'd
to
be
an
Emperour
;
for
he
was
crown'd
with
Lawrel
,
and
surrounded
with
a
grave
sort
of
People
,
that
look't
like
Counsellors
or
Senators
;
and
had
all
the
Old
Statutes
,
and
Records
at
their
Fingers
End
:
by
which
they
endeavour'd
to
make
it
out
;
That
a
King
might
be
kill'd
in
his
Personal
Capacity
,
and
his
Politick
Capacity
never
the
worse
for
't
.
And
upon
this
point
,
were
they
at
Daggers
Drawn
with
the
Emperour
.
Lucifer
came
then
roundly
up
to
him
,
and
with
a
Voice
that
made
Hell
quake
;
what
are
you
Sir
,
(
says
he
)
that
take
upon
you
thus
in
my
Dominions
?
I
am
the
Great
Iulius
Caesar
,
(
says
he
)
that
in
this
general
Tumult
,
thought
to
have
reveng'd
my self
upon
Brutus
,
and
Cassius
,
for
Murthering
me
in
the
Senate
,
under
colour
(
forsooth
)
of
asserting
the
Common
Liberty
:
Whereas
these
Traytors
did
it
merely
out
of
Envy
,
Avarico
,
and
Ambition
.
It
was
the
Emperour
not
the
Empire
they
hated
.
They
pretended
to
destroy
Me
,
for
Introducing
a
Monarchy
;
But
did
they
overthrow
the
Monarchy
it self
?
No
;
but
on
the
Contrary
,
they
confirm'd
it
;
and
did
more
Mischief
,
in
taking
away
my
life
,
than
I
did
in
dissolving
their
Republick
.
However
,
I
dy'd
an
Emperour
,
and
these
Villains
carry'd
only
the
Infamy
,
and
Brand
of
Regicides
,
to
their
Grav●s
,
and
the
World
has
ever
since
,
ador'd
my
Memory
,
and
abhorr'd
theirs
.
Tell
me
(
quoth
he
)
ye
cursed
Bloud-Hounds
;
(
turning
towards
them
)
Whether
was
your
Government
better
,
think
ye
?
in
the
●ands
of
your
Senators
;
a
Company
of
talking
Gown-men
,
that
knew
not
how
to
keep
it
;
Or
in
the
hands
of
a
Souldier
,
that
won
it
by
his
Merit
?
It
is
not
the
Drawing
of
a
Charge
,
or
the
making
of
a
fine
Oration
,
that
fits
people
for
Government
;
nor
will
a
Crown
sit
well
upon
the
Head
of
a
Pedant
;
but
let
him
wear
it
that
deserves
it
.
He
is
the
true
Patriot
that
advances
the
Glory
of
his
Country
,
by
Actions
of
Bravery
and
Honour
.
Which
has
more
right
to
Rule
,
think
ye
,
he
that
only
knows
the
Laws
,
or
He
that
Maintains
them
?
The
one
only
studies
the
Government
;
The
other
Protects
it
.
Wretched
Republick
!
Thou
call'st
it
Freedom
,
to
obey
a
Divided
Multitude
,
and
slavery
,
to
serve
a
single
Person
;
and
when
a
Company
of
Covetous
little
Fellows
are
got
together
,
they
must
be
stil'd
Fathers
of
their
Countrey
,
forsooth
;
And
shall
one
Generous
Person
take
up
with
the
Name
of
Tyrant
?
Oh!
how
much
better
had
it
been
for
Rome
to
have
preserv'd
that
one
Son
that
made
her
Mistress
of
the
World
,
than
that
Multitude
of
Fathers
,
who
by
so
many
Intestine
Wars
,
render'd
her
but
a
Step-mother
to
her
own
Children
.
Barbarous
,
and
Cruel
that
you
are
!
so
much
as
to
mention
the
name
of
a
Common-wealth
,
considering
that
since
the
people
tasted
of
Monarchy
,
they
have
prefer'd
even
the
worst
of
Princes
,
as
Nero
,
Tiberius
,
Caligula
,
Heliogabalus
,
&c.
before
your
Tribe
of
Senators
.
This
discourse
of
Caesars
struck
Brutus
with
exceeding
shame
and
confusion
;
but
at
length
with
a
feeble
and
trembling
voice
,
he
deliver'd
himself
to
this
effect
.
Gentlemen
of
the
Senate
(
say's
he
)
do
ye
not
hear
Caesar
?
or
will
ye
adde
sin
to
sin
,
and
suffer
all
the
blame
to
be
cast
upon
the
Instruments
,
when
you
your selves
were
the
Contrivers
of
the
Villany
?
Why
do
ye
not
answer
?
for
Caesar
speaks
to
you
,
as
well
as
to
us
.
Cassius
and
my
self
were
but
your
Bravos
,
and
govern'd
by
your
perswasions
and
advice
,
little
dreaming
of
that
insatiable
ambition
that
lay
lurking
under
the
gravity
of
your
long
Beards
and
Robes
.
But
't
is
the
practice
of
you
all
,
to
arraign
that
Tyranny
in
the
Prince
,
which
you
would
exercise
your selves
:
in
effect
,
when
you
have
gotten
Power
,
and
the
colour
of
Authority
in
your
hands
,
it
is
more
dangerous
for
a
Prince
not
to
comply
with
you
,
than
for
a
Vassal
to
rebel
against
his
Prince
.
To
what
end
serv'd
your
perfidious
and
ungrateful
Treason
?
Make
answer
to
Caesar.
But
for
our
parts
,
in
the
conscience
of
our
sin
,
we
feel
the
severity
of
our
Punishment
.
At
these
words
a
hollow-Ey'd
,
supercilious
Senator
(
that
had
been
of
the
Conspiracy
,
and
was
then
blazing
like
a
Pitcht
Barrel
)
rais'd
himself
,
and
with
a
faint
voice
,
askt
Caesar
what
reason
he
had
to
complain
?
For
Prince
(
says
he
)
if
King
Ptolomy
murther'd
Pompey
the
Great
,
upon
whose
score
he
held
his
Kingdom
:
why
might
not
the
Senate
as
well
kill
you
,
to
recover
what
you
had
taken
from
them
?
And
in
the
case
betwixt
Caesar
and
Pompey
,
let
the
Devils
themselves
be
Judges
.
As
for
Achillas
(
who
was
one
one
of
the
murtherers
)
what
he
did
,
was
by
Ptolomy's
command
,
and
then
he
was
but
a
Free-booter
neither
,
a
fellow
that
got
his
living
by
Rapine
and
Spoil
:
but
Caesar
was
undoubtedly
the
more
infamous
of
the
two
.
'T
is
true
,
you
wept
at
the
sight
of
Pompey's
head
,
but
such
tears
as
were
more
treacherous
than
the
Steel
that
kill'd
him
.
Ah
cruel
compassion
and
revengeful
piety
!
that
made
thee
a
more
barbarous
Enemy
to
Pompey
,
dead
than
living
.
Oh
that
ever
two
Hypocrite
Eyes
should
creep
into
the
first
Head
of
the
World
!
To
conclude
,
the
death
of
Caesar
,
had
been
the
Recovery
of
our
Republick
,
if
the
multitude
had
not
call'd
in
others
of
his
Race
to
the
Government
,
which
render'd
thy
fall
the
very
Hydra
of
the
Empire
.
We
had
had
another
skirmish
upon
these
words
,
if
Lucifer
had
not
commanded
Caesar
to
his
Cell
again
,
upon
pain
of
Death
;
and
there
to
abide
such
correction
as
belong'd
to
him
,
for
slighting
the
warnings
he
had
of
his
Disaster
.
Brutus
and
Cassius
too
were
turn'd
over
to
the
politick
Fools
:
and
the
Senators
were
dispatch'd
away
to
Minos
and
Rhadamanthus
,
and
to
sit
as
Assistants
in
the
Devils
Bench.
After
this
I
heard
a
murmuring
noise
,
as
of
people
talking
at
a
distance
,
and
by
degrees
I
made
it
out
that
they
were
wrangling
and
disputing
still
lowder
and
lowder
,
till
at
length
it
was
but
a
word
and
a
blow
;
and
the
nearer
I
came
the
greater
was
the
clamour
.
This
made
me
mend
my
pace
;
but
before
I
could
reach
them
,
they
were
all
together
by
the
Ears
in
a
bloudy
fray
:
They
were
persons
of
great
quality
all
of
them
,
as
Emperors
,
Magistrates
,
Generals
of
Armies
.
Lucifer
,
to
take
up
the
Quarrel
,
commanded
them
Peace
and
Silence
,
and
they
all
obey'd
,
but
it
vext
them
to
the
hearts
to
be
so
taken
off
in
the
full
carriere
of
their
Fury
and
Revenge
.
The
first
that
open'd
his
mouth
,
was
a
fellow
so
martyr'd
with
wounds
and
scars
,
that
I
took
him
at
first
for
an
indigent
Officer
;
but
it
prov'd
to
be
Clitus
(
as
he
said
himself
)
And
one
at
his
Elbow
told
him
,
he
was
a
saucy
Companion
,
for
presuming
to
speak
before
his
time
;
and
so
desir'd
Audience
of
Lucifer
,
for
the
high
and
mighty
Alexander
,
the
Son
of
Jupiter
,
and
the
Emperor
and
Terror
of
the
World
:
He
was
going
on
with
his
Qualities
and
Titles
;
but
an
Officer
gave
the
word
,
Silence
,
and
bad
Clitus
begin
;
which
he
took
very
kindly
,
and
told
his
story
.
If
it
may
please
your
Majesty
(
says
he
)
I
was
the
first
Favourite
of
this
Emperor
;
who
was
then
Lord
of
all
the
known
World
;
bare
the
Title
of
the
King
of
Kings
,
and
Boasted
himself
for
the
son
of
Iupiter
Hammon
;
and
yet
after
all
this
Glory
,
and
Conquest
,
he
was
himself
a
slave
to
his
Passions
:
He
was
Rash
,
and
Cruel
,
and
consequently
,
Incapable
either
of
Counsel
,
or
Friendship
.
While
I
liv'd
,
I
was
near
him
,
and
serv'd
him
faithfully
;
but
it
seems
,
He
did
not
Entertain
me
,
so
much
for
my
Fidelity
,
as
to
augment
the
Number
of
his
Flatterers
:
But
I
found
my self
too
honest
for
a
Base
Office
;
and
still
as
he
ran
into
any
foul
Excesses
,
I
took
a
Freedom
with
all
possible
Modesty
,
to
shew
him
his
Mistakes
.
One
day
,
as
he
was
talking
slightly
of
his
Father
Philip
(
that
brave
Prince
,
from
whom
he
receiv'd
as
well
his
Honour
,
as
his
Being
)
I
told
him
frankly
what
I
thought
of
that
Ingratitude
,
and
Vanity
,
and
desired
him
to
treat
his
Dead
Father
with
more
Reverence
,
as
a
Prince
Worthy
of
Eternal
Honour
,
and
Respect
.
This
Commendation
of
Philip
,
so
enflam'd
him
,
that
presently
he
took
a
Partisan
and
struck
me
Dead
in
the
place
with
his
own
Hand
.
After
this
;
pray'e
where
was
his
Divinity
,
when
he
gave
Abdolominus
,
(
a
poor
Garden-Weeder
)
the
Kingdome
of
Sidonia
:
which
was
not
,
as
the
World
would
have
it
,
out
of
any
Consideration
of
his
Virtue
,
but
to
Mortify
,
and
take
down
the
Pride
,
and
Insolence
of
the
Persians
.
Meeting
him
here
just
now
in
Hell
,
I
askt
him
what
was
become
of
his
Father
Iupiter
now
;
that
he
lay
so
long
by
't
;
and
whether
he
were
not
yet
convinc'd
that
all
his
Flatterers
were
a
Company
of
Rascals
,
who
with
their
Incense
,
and
Altars
,
would
perswade
him
that
He
was
of
Divine
Extraction
,
and
Heir
apparent
to
the
Throne
,
and
Thunder
of
Iupiter
.
This
now
was
the
Ground
of
our
Quarrel
.
Invectives
apart
;
who
but
a
Tyrant
would
have
put
a
Loyal
Subject
to
Death
,
only
for
his
Affection
,
and
Regards
to
the
Memory
of
his
Dead
Father
?
how
barbarously
did
he
treat
his
Favourites
,
Parmenio
,
Philotas
,
Calisthenes
,
Amintas
,
&c.
so
that
good
or
bad
is
all
a
case
,
for
't
is
crime
enough
to
be
the
Favourite
of
a
Tyrant
:
As
in
the
course
of
humane
life
,
every
man
dies
because
he
is
mortal
,
and
the
disease
is
rather
the
pretext
of
his
death
,
than
the
cause
of
it
.
You
find
now
(
says
Satan
)
that
Tyrants
will
shew
their
people
many
a
Dog-trick
,
when
the
humour
takes
them
.
The
good
,
they
hate
,
for
not
being
wicked
;
and
the
bad
,
because
they
are
no
worse
.
How
many
Favourites
have
you
ever
seen
come
to
a
fair
and
timely
end
?
Remember
the
Emblem
of
the
Sponge
,
and
that
's
the
use
that
Princes
make
of
their
Favourites
:
they
let
them
suck
and
fill
,
and
then
squeeze
them
for
their
own
profit
.
At
that
word
there
was
heard
a
lamentable
cry
,
and
at
the
same
time
a
venerable
old
man
,
as
pale
as
if
he
had
no
bloud
in
his
veins
,
came
up
to
Lucifer
,
and
told
him
,
that
his
Emblem
of
the
Sponge
came
very
pat
to
his
Case
;
For
(
says
he
)
I
was
a
great
Favourite
,
and
a
great
horder
of
Treasure
:
a
Spaniard
by
birth
,
the
Tutor
and
Confident
of
Nero
;
and
my
name
is
Seneca
.
Indeed
his
bounties
were
to
excess
,
he
gave
me
without
asking
,
and
in
taking
I
was
never
covetous
but
obedient
.
It
is
in
the
nature
of
Princes
,
and
it
befits
their
quality
,
to
be
liberal
where
they
take
a
liking
,
both
of
Honour
and
Fortunes
:
and
't
is
hard
for
a
Subject
to
refuse
,
without
some
reflection
upon
the
generosity
or
discretion
of
his
Master
.
For
't
is
not
the
merit
,
or
modesty
of
the
Vassal
,
but
the
glory
of
the
Prince
that
is
in
question
:
and
he
is
the
best
Subject
,
that
contributes
the
most
to
the
splendor
and
reputation
of
his
Sovereign
.
Nero
indeed
gave
me
as
much
as
such
a
Prince
could
bestow
;
and
I
manag'd
his
liberalities
with
all
the
moderation
imaginable
:
yet
all
too
little
,
to
preserve
me
from
the
strokes
of
envious
and
malicious
tongues
;
which
would
have
it
,
that
my
philosophizing
upon
the
contempt
of
the
World
,
was
nothing
else
but
a
meer
imposture
,
that
with
less
danger
and
notice
I
might
feed
and
entertain
my
avarice
,
and
with
the
fewer
Competitors
.
Finding
my
credit
with
my
Master
declining
,
it
stood
me
upon
to
provide
some
way
or
other
for
my
quiet
,
and
to
withdraw
my self
from
being
the
mark
of
of
a
publick
envy
.
So
I
went
directly
to
Nero
,
and
with
all
possible
respect
and
humility
made
him
a
Present
back
again
of
his
own
●●unties
.
The
truth
is
,
I
had
so
great
a
p●ssion
for
his
service
,
that
neither
the
severity
of
his
Nature
,
nor
the
debauchery
of
his
Manners
could
ever
deter
me
from
exhorting
him
to
nobler
courses
,
and
paying
him
all
the
duties
of
a
Loyal
Subject
.
Especially
in
cases
of
cruelty
and
bloud
,
I
laid
it
perpetually
home
to
his
conscience
,
but
all
to
little
purpose
;
for
he
put
his
mother
to
death
,
laid
the
City
of
Rome
in
ashes
,
and
indeed
depopulated
the
Empire
of
honest
men
.
And
this
drew
on
Piso's
Conspiracy
,
which
was
better
laid
than
executed
:
for
upon
the
discovery
,
the
prime
instruments
lost
their
lives
;
and
by
Divine
Providence
this
Prince
was
p●eserv'd
,
in
order
(
as
one
would
have
th●ught
)
to
his
repentance
and
change
of
life
.
But
upon
the
issue
,
the
Conspiracy
was
prevented
,
and
Nero
never
the
better
.
At
the
same
time
he
put
Lucan
to
death
,
only
for
being
a
better
Poet
than
himself
.
And
if
he
gave
me
my
choice
what
death
to
die
,
it
was
rather
cruelty
than
pity
:
for
in
the
very
deliberation
which
death
to
chuse
,
I
suffer'd
all
even
in
the
terror
and
apprehension
that
made
me
refuse
the
rest
.
The
election
I
made
,
was
to
bleed
to
death
in
a
Bath
,
and
I
finisht
my
own
dispatches
hither
;
where
to
my
further
affliction
,
I
have
again
encountred
this
infamous
Prince
,
studying
new
cruelties
,
and
instructing
the
very
Devils
themselves
in
the
Art
of
tormenting
.
At
that
word
Nero
advanc'd
,
with
his
ill-favour'd
face
and
shrill
voice
.
It
is
very
well
(
says
he
)
for
a
Princes
Favourite
,
or
Tutor
to
be
wiser
than
his
Master
;
but
let
him
manage
that
advantage
then
with
respect
,
and
not
like
a
rash
and
insolent
Fool
make
proclamation
presently
to
the
world
,
that
he
's
the
wiser
of
the
two
.
While
Seneca
kept
himself
within
those
,
bounds
,
I
lodg'd
him
in
my
bosome
,
and
the
love
I
had
for
that
man
was
the
glory
of
my
Government
;
but
when
he
came
to
publish
once
(
what
he
should
have
dissembled
or
conceal'd
)
that
it
was
not
Nero
,
but
Seneca
that
rul'd
the
Empire
,
nothing
less
than
his
bloud
could
make
satisfaction
for
so
intolerable
a
scandal
,
and
from
that
hour
I
resolv'd
his
ruine
.
And
I
had
rather
suffer
what
I
do
a
hundred
times
over
,
than
entertain
a
Favourite
that
should
raise
his
credit
upon
my
dishonour
.
Whether
I
have
reason
on
my
side
or
no
,
I
appeal
to
all
this
Princely
Assembly
:
Draw
neer
I
beseech
ye
,
as
many
as
are
here
,
and
speak
freely
,
my
Royal
Brethren
;
Did
ye
ever
suffer
any
Favourite
to
scape
unpunisht
,
that
had
the
impudence
to
write
[
I
and
my
King
]
to
make
a
Stale
,
of
Majesty
,
and
to
publish
himself
a
better
Statesman
than
his
Master
?
No
,
no
,
(
they
cry'd
out
all
with
one
voice
)
it
never
was
,
and
never
shall
be
endured
,
while
the
world
lasts
:
For
we
have
left
our
Successors
under
an
Oath
,
to
have
a
care
on
't
.
'T
is
true
,
a
wise
Counsellor
at
a
Prince's
elbow
,
is
a
Treasure
,
and
ought
to
be
so
esteem'd
,
while
he
makes
it
his
business
to
cry
up
the
abilities
and
justice
of
his
Sovereign
:
but
in
the
instant
that
his
vanity
transports
him
to
the
contrary
;
away
with
him
to
the
dogs
,
and
down
with
him
,
for
there
's
no
enduring
of
it
.
All
this
(
cry'd
Sejanus
)
does
not
yet
concern
me
;
for
though
I
had
indeed
more
brains
than
Tiberius
,
yet
I
so
order'd
it
,
that
he
had
the
credit
in
publick
of
all
my
private
Advices
.
And
so
sensible
he
was
of
my
services
,
that
he
made
me
his
Partner
and
Companion
in
the
Empire
:
he
caus'd
my
Statues
to
be
erected
,
and
invested
them
with
sacred
Privileges
.
Let
Sejanus
live
,
was
the
daily
cry
of
the
People
;
and
in
truth
,
my
well-being
was
the
joy
of
the
Empire
;
and
far
and
neer
there
were
publick
Prayers
and
Vows
offer'd
up
for
my
health
.
But
what
was
the
end
of
all
?
when
I
thought
my self
surest
in
my
Master's
Arms
and
favour
;
he
let
me
fall
,
nay
he
threw
me
down
,
caus'd
me
to
be
cut
in
pieces
,
delivering
me
up
to
the
fury
of
a
barbarous
and
enraged
Multitude
,
that
drag'd
me
along
the
Streets
,
and
happy
was
he
that
could
get
a
piece
of
my
flesh
to
carry
upon
a
Javelins
point
in
triumph
.
And
it
had
been
well
if
this
inhumane
cruelty
had
stopt
here
;
but
it
extended
to
my
poor
Children
,
who
,
though
unconcern'd
in
my
crimes
,
were
yet
to
partake
in
my
fate
.
A
Daughter
I
had
,
whom
the
very
Law
exempted
from
the
stroke
of
Iustice
,
because
of
her
Virginity
;
but
to
clear
that
scruple
,
she
was
condemn'd
first
to
be
ravisht
by
the
Hangman
,
and
then
to
be
beheaded
,
and
treated
as
her
Father
.
My
first
failing
was
upon
temerity
and
pride
:
I
would
out-run
my
destiny
;
defie
fortune
:
and
for
Divine
Providence
I
lookt
upon
it
as
a
ridiculous
thing
.
When
I
was
once
out
of
the
way
,
I
thought
doing
worse
was
somewhat
in
order
to
being
better
;
and
then
I
began
to
fortifie
my self
by
violence
,
against
craft
and
malice
.
Some
were
put
to
death
,
others
banisht
,
till
in
fin●
,
all
the
Powers
of
Heaven
and
Earth
declar'd
themselves
against
me
.
I
had
recourse
to
all
sorts
of
ill
people
,
and
means
.
I
had
my
Physician
for
poysoning
;
my
Assassins
for
revenge
;
I
had
my
false
Witnesses
and
corrupt
Iudges
;
and
in
truth
,
what
Instruments
of
wickedness
had
I
not
?
And
all
this
not
upon
choice
or
inclination
;
but
purely
out
of
the
necessity
of
my
condition
.
When
ever
I
should
come
to
fall
,
I
was
sure
to
be
forsaken
both
of
good
and
bad
;
and
therefore
I
shun'd
the
better
sort
,
as
those
that
would
only
serve
to
accuse
me
;
but
the
lewd
and
vicious
I
frequented
,
to
encrease
the
number
of
my
Complices
,
and
make
my
party
the
stronger
.
But
after
all
;
if
Tiberius
was
a
Tyrant
,
I
'le
swear
he
was
never
so
by
my
advice
:
But
on
the
contrary
;
I
have
suffer'd
more
from
him
for
plain
dealing
and
disswading
him
,
than
the
very
subjects
of
his
severity
have
commonly
suffer'd
by
him
.
I
know
,
't
is
charg'd
upon
me
,
that
I
stirr'd
him
up
to
cruelty
,
to
render
him
odious
,
and
to
ingratiate
my self
to
the
people
.
But
who
was
his
Adviser
I
pray'e
,
in
this
butcherly
p●oceeding
against
me
?
Oh
Lucifer
,
Lucifer
!
you
know
very
well
that
〈◊〉
the
practice
of
Tyrants
,
when
they
do
amiss
themselves
,
and
set
their
people
a
grumbling
,
to
lay
all
the
blame
(
and
punishment
too
)
upon
the
Instrument
;
and
hang
up
the
Minister
for
the
Masters
fault
.
This
is
the
end
of
all
Favourites
,
cries
one
;
Not
a
half-penny
matter
if
they
were
all
serv'd
so
,
says
another
.
And
every
Historian
has
his
saying
upon
this
Catastrophe
,
and
sets
up
a
Buoy
to
warn
after-ages
of
the
Rock
of
Court-favours
.
The
greatness
of
a
Favourite
I
must
confess
,
proclaims
the
greatness
of
his
Maker
;
and
the
Prince
that
maintains
what
he
has
once
rais'd
,
does
but
justifie
the
prudence
of
his
own
choice
:
and
when
ever
he
comes
to
undo
what
he
has
done
,
publishes
himself
to
be
light
and
unconstant
,
and
does
as
good
as
declare
himself
(
even
against
himself
)
of
the
Enemies
party
.
Up
stept
Plantian
then
,
(
Severus
his
Favourite
)
he
that
was
toss'd
out
of
a
Garret
Window
to
make
the
people
sport
.
My
condition
in
the
World
(
says
he
)
was
perfectly
like
that
of
a
Rocket
or
Fire-work
:
I
was
carry'd
up
to
a
Prodigious
Height
in
a
Moment
,
and
all
peoples
Eyes
were
upon
me
,
as
a
Star
of
the
first
Magnitude
;
but
my
Glory
was
very
short-liv'd
;
and
down
I
fell
,
into
Obscurity
,
and
Ashes
.
After
him
,
appear'd
a
number
of
other
Favorites
;
and
all
of
them
hearkening
to
Bellisarius
the
Favorite
of
Iustinian
;
who
Blind
as
he
was
,
had
already
knock't
twice
with
his
staff
,
and
shaking
his
Head
,
with
a
weak
and
complaining
Voice
,
desir'd
Audience
;
which
was
at
length
granted
him
,
Silence
commanded
;
And
he
said
,
as
follows
.
Princes
(
said
he
)
before
they
destroy
the
Creatures
they
have
rais'd
,
and
chosen
,
should
do
well
to
Consider
,
that
Cruelty
,
and
Inconstancy
is
much
a
greater
Infamy
to
a
Prince
,
then
the
Worst
effects
of
it
can
be
to
a
Favorite
.
For
my
own
part
,
I
serv'd
an
Emperour
,
that
was
both
a
Christian
,
and
a
great
Lover
,
and
Promoter
of
Iustice
.
And
yet
after
all
the
services
I
ha●
done
him
,
in
several
Battles
,
and
Adventures
,
(
insomuch
that
He
was
effectually
become
my
Debter
,
for
the
very
glory
of
his
Empire
)
My
Reward
,
in
the
End
,
was
to
have
my
Eyes
put
out
,
and
(
with
a
Dog
and
a
Bell
)
to
be
turn'd
a
begging
from
Door
to
Door
.
Thus
was
That
Belizarius
treated
,
whose
very
Name
formerly
was
Worth
an
Army
,
and
he
was
the
Soul
of
his
Friends
,
as
well
as
the
Terror
of
his
Enemies
.
But
a
Prince's
Favour
,
is
like
Quick-silver
,
Restless
,
and
Slippery
,
never
to
be
fix'd
;
never
secured
.
Force
it
,
and
it
spends
it self
in
Fumes
:
Sublime
it
,
and
't
is
a
Mortal
Poyson
.
Handle
it
only
,
and
it
works
it self
into
the
very
Bones
;
and
all
that
have
to
do
with
it
,
Live
and
Dye
,
Pale
,
and
Trembling
.
At
these
Words
,
the
whole
Band
of
Favorites
,
set
up
a
Hideous
,
and
a
Heavy
Grone
,
trembling
like
Aspen-leaves
,
and
at
the
same
time
,
reciting
several
passages
out
of
the
Prophet
Habbacuck
,
against
Careless
,
and
Wicked
Governors
.
By
which
Threatnings
,
is
given
to
understand
,
that
the
Almighty
,
when
he
has
a
Mind
to
destroy
a
Wicked
Ruler
,
does
not
always
punish
one
Potentate
by
Another
,
and
bring
his
Ends
about
by
a
Tryal
of
Arms
,
or
the
Event
of
a
Battle
:
but
many
times
makes
use
of
things
the
most
Abject
,
and
Vile
,
to
Confound
the
Vanity
,
and
Arrogance
of
the
Mighty
;
and
makes
even
Worms
,
Flyes
,
Caterpillars
,
and
Lice
to
serve
him
●s
the
Ministers
of
his
Terrible
Iustice
:
Nay
,
the
Stone
in
the
Wall
,
and
the
Beam
in
the
house
,
shall
rise
in
Iudgment
against
them
.
This
Discourse
might
have
gone
further
,
but
that
the
Company
presently
parted
,
to
know
the
Meaning
of
a
sudden
Noise
,
and
Clatter
they
heard
,
●hat
half
deafen'd
the
Auditory
.
And
what
was
it
at
last
?
but
a
Scuffle
between
the
Gown-men
,
and
the
Brothers
of
the
Blade
;
And
there
were
Persons
of
great
Honour
,
and
Learning
,
Young
,
and
Old
,
engag'd
in
the
Fray
:
The
Men
of
War
were
at
it
dashing
with
their
Swords
,
and
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Long
Robe
,
fencing
,
some
with
Tostatus
,
O●hers
with
huge
Pandects
,
that
with
their
old
Wainscot
Covers
were
as
good
as
Bucklers
,
and
would
now
and
then
give
the
Foe
a
Heavy
Rebuke
,
over
and
above
.
The
Combate
had
certainly
been
very
Bloudy
,
if
one
of
Lucifer's
Constables
had
not
commanded
them
in
the
King's
name
to
keep
the
Peace
;
which
made
it
a
Drawn
Battle
.
And
with
That
,
one
of
the
Combatants
with
his
best
Leg
forward
,
said
aloud
;
If
Ye
knew
(
Gentlemen
)
either
Vs
,
or
our
Quarrel
,
you
'd
say
we
had
reason
,
and
perhaps
side
with
us
.
At
that
Instant
,
there
appear'd
Domitian
,
Commodus
,
Caracalla
,
Phalaris
,
Heliogabalus
,
Alcetes
,
Andronicus
,
Busiris
,
and
old
Oliver
,
with
a
World
of
great
Personages
more
;
which
when
Lucifer
saw
,
he
dispos'd
himself
to
treat
so
Majestical
an
Appearance
,
and
as
much
to
their
satisfaction
as
was
Possible
.
And
then
came
up
a
grave
Ancient
man
,
with
a
great
Train
at
his
Heels
,
all
Bloudy
,
and
full
of
the
Marks
they
had
receiv'd
under
the
Persecution
of
these
Tyrants
.
You
have
here
before
ye
,
(
quoth
the
Old
Man
)
Solon
;
and
these
are
the
Seven
Sages
,
Native
of
Greece
,
but
renown'd
throughout
the
Vniverse
.
He
there
in
the
Mortar
,
is
that
Anaxarchus
that
was
pounded
to
Death
by
Command
of
Nicocreon
.
He
with
the
Flat
Nose
,
is
Socrates
;
The
little
Crump-shoulder'd
Wretch
,
was
the
Famous
Aristotle
:
and
T'other
there
,
the
Divine
Plato
.
Those
in
the
Corner
,
are
all
of
the
same
Profession
too
;
Grave
▪
and
Learned
Philosophers
;
that
have
displeas'd
Tyrants
with
their
writings
:
and
in
fine
,
the
World
is
stor'd
with
their
works
,
and
Hell
with
the
Authours
.
To
come
to
the
point
,
(
most
mighty
Lucifer
)
we
are
all
of
us
Dealers
in
Politicks
;
Great
Writers
,
and
Deep-read-men
in
the
Maxims
of
State
,
and
Government
.
We
have
digested
Policy
into
a
Method
,
and
laid
down
Certain
Rules
,
by
which
Princes
may
make
themselves
Great
,
and
Belov'd
.
We
have
advis'd
them
,
Impartially
to
administer
Iustice
;
To
reward
Virtue
,
as
well
Military
,
as
Civil
;
to
Employ
able
Men
,
Banish
Flatterers
;
To
put
men
of
Wisdom
,
and
Integrity
in
Places
of
Trust.
To
reward
,
or
Punish
,
without
Passion
;
and
according
to
the
Merits
of
the
Cause
,
as
God's
Vice-gerents
.
And
This
now
is
our
offence
.
We
name
no
Body
;
We
design
no
body
;
but
't
is
Crime
enough
to
wish
well
to
the
way
,
and
to
the
Lovers
of
Virtue
.
With
that
,
turning
toward
the
Tyrants
.
Oh
most
Unjust
Princes
;
(
said
he
)
Those
Glorious
Kings
,
and
Emperours
from
whom
we
took
the
Model
of
ou●
Laws
,
and
Instructions
,
are
now
in
a
state
of
Rest
,
and
Comfort
,
while
you
are
tormented
.
Numa
is
now
a
Star
in
the
Firmament
,
and
Tarquin
a
Fire-brand
in
Hell
.
And
the
Memory
of
Augustus
and
Trajan
is
still
fresh
and
fragrant
,
when
the
Names
of
Nero
,
and
Sardanapalus
are
more
Putrid
,
and
Odious
then
their
Bodies
.
When
Dionysius
the
Tyrant
heard
this
,
(
with
his
Companions
about
him
)
Flesh
and
Bloud
could
hold
no
longer
;
and
He
cry'd
out
in
a
Rage
,
That
Roguy
Philosopher
has
told
a
Thousand
Lyes
.
Legislators
,
with
a
Pox
?
Yes
,
yes
;
they
are
sweet
Legislators
;
and
Princes
have
many
a
fair
Obligation
to
them
.
No
,
no
,
Sirrah
,
(
says
he
to
Solon
)
You
are
all
of
yea
Company
of
Quacks
;
Ye
prate
,
and
speculate
of
things
ye
don't
understand
;
and
with
your
damn'd
Moralities
set
the
People
agog
upon
Liberty
;
cry
up
the
Doctrine
of
Free-born
Subjects
,
and
then
our
Portion
,
is
persecution
in
one
World
,
and
Infamy
in
t'other
.
We
shall
have
a
fine
time
on
't
,
my
most
Gracious
Prince
(
cry'd
Iulian
the
Apostate
,
staring
Lucifer
in
the
face
)
when
these
Dunghil
Pedants
,
A
Company
of
Cock-brain'd
,
Ridiculous
,
Mortify'd
,
Ill-bred
,
Beggerly
Tatterdemallions
,
shall
come
to
erect
a
Committee
for
Politicks
,
and
pass
Sentence
upon
Governors
,
and
Governments
;
stiling
themselves
(
forsooth
)
the
Supporters
of
both
;
without
any
more
skill
then
my
Horse
in
what
belongs
to
either
.
Tell
me
(
says
he
)
if
a
Brave
Prince
had
not
better
be
Damn'd
,
then
subject
himself
to
hear
one
of
these
Turdy-Facy-Paty-Nasty-Lowsy-Fartical
Rascals
,
with
a
Scabb'd
Head
,
and
a
Plantation
of
Lice
in
his
Beard
;
and
his
Eyes
crept
into
the
Nape
of
his
Neck
,
pronouncing
for
an
Aphorisme
;
That
A
Prince
that
looks
only
to
One
,
is
a
Tyrant
;
and
that
a
True
King
is
the
Shepherd
,
and
Servant
of
his
People
.
Ah
,
Rash
,
and
besotted
Coxcombs
!
If
a
King
looks
only
to
others
,
who
shall
look
to
him
?
As
if
Princes
had
not
Enemies
enough
abroad
;
without
being
so
to
themselves
too
.
But
you
may
write
your
Hearts
out
▪
and
never
the
nearer
.
Where
's
our
Soveraignty
?
if
we
have
not
our
Subjects
Lives
,
and
Estates
at
our
Mercy
.
And
where
's
our
Absolute
Power
?
if
we
submit
to
the
Counsels
of
our
Vassals
.
If
we
have
not
to
satisfy
our
Appetites
,
Avarice
,
and
Revenge
,
we
want
power
to
discharge
the
Noblest
Ends
of
Government
.
These
Contemplative
Ideots
,
would
have
us
make
Choice
of
Good
Officers
,
to
keep
the
Bad
in
Order
;
which
were
a
Madness
,
in
our
Condition
.
Let
them
be
Complaisant
,
and
no
matter
for
any
other
Merit
,
or
Virtue
.
A
Parcel
of
Good
Offices
,
handsomely
dispos'd
among
a
Pack
of
Cheats
,
and
Atheists
,
will
make
us
a
party
another
Day
;
whereas
all
is
lost
that
's
bestow'd
upon
honest
men
;
for
they
're
our
Enemies
;
Speak
Truth
then
all
of
ye
,
and
shame
the
Devil
:
for
the
Butcher
fats
his
Sheep
only
for
the
Shambles
.
I
have
said
enough
,
I
suppose
,
to
stop
your
Mouths
,
but
here
's
an
Orator
will
read
you
another-gates
Lecture
of
Politicks
,
then
any
you
have
deliver'd
,
if
you
'l
give
him
the
Hearing
.
Photinus
,
advance
,
(
said
Iulian
)
and
speak
your
Mind
;
whereupon
,
there
appear'd
a
Brazen-fac'd
fellow
,
with
a
hanging
look
,
and
twenty
other
marks
of
a
Desperate
Villain
:
who
with
a
Hellish
Yell
,
and
three
or
four
wry
mouths
for
a
Prologue
,
brake
into
his
Discourse
.
The
Wicked
Advice
of
one
of
Ptolomy's
Courtiers
,
about
the
Killing
of
Pompey
:
taken
out
of
Lucan's
Pharsalia
.
Lib.
8.
MEthinks
,
under
favour
,
(
most
Renowned
Ptolomy
)
we
are
now
slipt
into
a
debate
,
a
little
beside
the
business
.
The
question
is
,
whether
Pompey
should
be
deliver'd
up
to
Caesar
,
or
no.
That
is
to
say
,
whether
in
reason
of
State
,
it
ought
to
be
done
▪
and
we
are
formalizing
the
matter
,
whether
in
point
of
equity
and
justice
it
may
be
done
.
Bodies
Politique
have
no
Souls
;
and
never
did
any
great
Prince
turn
a
Council
of
State
,
into
a
Court
of
Conscience
,
but
he
repented
it
.
Kingdoms
are
to
be
govern'd
by
Politicians
,
not
by
Casuists
;
and
there
is
nothing
more
contrary
to
the
true
interest
of
Crowns
and
Empires
,
then
in
publick
cases
,
to
make
a
scruple
of
private
duties
.
The
Argument
is
this
;
Pompey
is
in
distress
:
and
Ptolomy
under
an
Obligation
;
so
that
it
were
a
violation
of
Faith
and
Hospitality
,
not
to
relieve
him
.
Now
give
me
leave
to
reason
it
the
other
way
.
Pompey
is
forsaken
,
and
persecuted
by
the
Gods
;
Caesar
upon
the
Heels
of
him
,
with
victory
and
success
.
Shall
Ptolomy
now
ruine
himself
,
to
protect
a
Fugitive
,
against
both
Heaven
,
and
Caesar
?
I
must
confess
▪
where
honesty
,
and
profit
are
both
of
a
side
,
't
is
well
;
but
where
they
disagr●e
,
the
Prince
that
does
not
quit
his
Religion
,
for
his
convenience
,
falls
into
a
direct
conspiracy
against
himself
.
He
shall
lose
the
Hearts
of
his
Souldiery
,
and
the
reputation
of
his
power
.
Whereas
on
the
contrary
,
the
most
hateful
Tyrant
in
the
world
shall
be
able
to
keep
his
head
above
water
,
let
him
but
give
a
general
License
to
commit
all
sorts
of
Wickedness
:
you
'l
say
't
is
Impious
:
but
I
say
,
what
if
it
be
?
who
shall
call
you
to
accompt
?
These
deliberations
are
only
for
Subjects
,
that
are
under
Command
;
and
not
for
Soveraign
Princes
,
whose
will
is
a
Law
.
Exeat
Aulâ
Qui
volet
esse
pius
.
He
was
never
cut
out
For
a
Court
,
that
's
devout
.
In
fine
,
since
either
Pompey
or
Ptolomy
must
suffer
,
I
am
absolutely
for
the
saving
of
Ptolomy
,
and
the
presenting
of
Pompey's
head
,
without
any
more
ado
,
to
Caesar.
A
dead
Dog
will
never
bite
.
Photinus
had
no
sooner
made
an
end
,
but
Domitian
appear'd
in
a
monstrous
Rage
,
and
lugging
of
poor
Suetonius
after
him
,
like
a
Bear
to
the
stake
.
There
is
not
in
nature
(
says
he
)
so
damn'd
a
Generation
of
Scribling
Rogues
,
as
these
Historians
.
We
can
neither
be
quiet
for
them
,
Living
,
nor
Dead
:
for
they
haunt
us
in
our
very
Graves
;
and
when
they
have
vented
the
Humour
,
and
Caprice
of
their
own
Brains
,
that
forsooth
must
be
call'd
,
The
life
of
such
an
Emperour
.
And
for
an
Instance
,
I
'll
shew
ye
what
this
Impertinent
Chronicler
says
of
my self
.
He
had
squander'd
away
his
treasure
(
says
he
)
in
expensive
Buildings
,
Comedies
,
and
Donatives
to
the
Souldiers
.
Now
would
I
fain
know
which
way
it
could
have
been
better
employ'd
.
In
another
place
,
he
says
,
that
Domitian
had
some
thoughts
of
easing
himself
in
his
Military
charges
,
by
reducing
the
number
;
but
that
he
durst
not
do
,
for
fear
some
of
his
Neighbours
should
put
an
affront
upon
him
.
So
that
to
lick
himself
whole
,
he
fell
to
raking
and
scraping
what
ever
he
could
get
,
either
from
Dead
,
or
Living
;
and
any
Rascals
Testimony
was
proof
enough
for
a
Confifcation
:
for
there
needed
no
more
to
undo
an
honest
man
,
then
to
tell
a
Tale
at
Court
,
that
such
a
one
had
spoken
ill
of
the
Prince
.
Is
this
the
way
of
treating
Majesty
?
what
could
this
impudent
Pedant
have
said
worse
,
if
he
had
been
speaking
of
a
Pick-pocket
or
a
Pirate
?
But
Princes
and
Thieves
are
all
one
to
them
.
He
says
further
,
that
Domitian
made
seizure
of
several
Estates
,
without
any
sort
of
right
whatsoever
;
and
there
went
no
more
to
his
Title
,
than
for
a
false
Witness
to
depose
,
that
he
heard
the
Defunct
declare
,
before
he
dy'd
,
that
he
made
Caesar
his
Heir
.
He
set
such
a
Tax
upon
the
Jews
,
that
many
of
them
deny'd
their
Religion
to
avoid
it
;
and
I
remember
that
when
I
was
a
young
fellow
,
I
saw
an
old
man
of
fourscore
and
ten
taken
upon
suspicion
by
one
of
Domitian's
spies
,
and
turn'd
up
in
a
publick
Assembly
,
to
see
if
he
were
circumcised
.
Be
you
now
Judges
,
Gentlemen
of
the
Black-Guard
,
if
this
be
not
a
most
intolerable
indignity
.
Am
I
to
answer
for
the
actions
of
my
inferior
Officers
?
it
amazes
me
that
my
Successors
should
ever
endure
these
scandalous
reports
to
be
publisht
,
especially
against
a
Prince
that
had
laid
out
so
much
money
in
repairng
the
Libraries
that
were
burnt
.
It
is
very
true
(
said
Suetonius
in
a
doleful
tone
)
and
I
have
not
forgotten
to
make
mention
of
it
to
your
Honour
.
But
what
will
you
say
,
if
I
shew
you
in
a
Warrant
under
your
hand
,
this
execrable
and
impious
Blasphemy
?
It
is
the
Command
of
your
Lord
and
God
.
And
in
fine
,
if
I
speak
nothing
but
truth
,
where
's
your
cause
of
complaint
?
I
have
written
the
Lives
too
of
the
great
Iulius
Caesar
,
and
the
divine
Augustus
,
and
the
world
will
not
say
but
I
have
done
them
right
.
But
for
your self
,
and
such
as
you
,
that
are
effectually
but
so
many
incarnate
and
crowned
Plagues
,
what
fault
have
I
committed
in
setting
before
your
eyes
those
Tyrannies
,
which
Heaven
and
Earth
cannot
but
look
upon
with
Dread
and
Horrour
?
This
discourse
of
Suetonius
was
interrupted
by
the
Babbler
or
Boutefeu
,
that
rounded
Lucifer
in
the
Ear
,
and
told
him
,
Look
ye
Sir
(
says
he
,
pointing
with
his
finger
)
that
limping
Devil
there
,
that
looks
as
if
he
were
surbated
with
beating
the
Hoof
,
has
been
abroad
in
the
world
,
this
twenty
year
,
and
is
but
just
now
come
back
again
.
Come
hither
Sirrah
,
crys
Lucifer
;
and
so
the
poor
Cur
went
wrigling
and
gloting
up
toward
his
Prince
.
You
are
a
fine
Rogue
to
be
s●nt
of
an
Errand
,
are
ye
not
?
(
●●ys
Lucifer
)
to
stay
twenty
year
out
,
and
come
back
again
e'en
as
wise
as
ye
went
:
What
souls
have
ye
b●o●ght
now
?
or
what
news
from
t'other
world
?
Ha!
Your
Highness
(
quoth
the
D●vil
)
has
too
much
honour
and
justice
to
condemn
me
unheard
.
Wherefore
be
pleased
to
remember
,
that
at
my
going
out
,
you
gave
me
charge
of
a
certain
Merchant
;
It
cost
me
the
first
ten
year
of
my
time
to
make
him
a
Thief
,
and
ten
more
to
keep
him
from
turning
honest
again
,
and
restoring
what
he
had
stolen
.
A
fine
fetch
for
a
Devil
this
,
is
it
not
?
cry'd
Lucifer
.
But
Hell
is
no
more
the
Hell
it
was
when
I
knew
it
first
,
than
Chalk
is
Cheese
:
And
the
Devils
now
adays
are
so
damn'dly
insipid
and
dry
,
they
're
hardly
worth
the
roasting
.
A
sensl●s●
Puppy
to
come
back
to
me
with
a
story
of
Waltham
's
Calf
,
that
went
nine
mile
to
suck
a
Bull.
But
he
's
not
Master
of
his
Trade
yet
:
and
with
that
Lucifer
bad
one
of
his
Officers
take
him
away
and
put
him
to
School
again
;
for
I
perceive
he
's
a
Rascal
,
says
he
,
and
he
has
e'en
been
roguing
at
a
Play-house
,
when
he
should
have
been
at
Church
.
In
that
instant
,
from
behind
a
little
hill
,
a
great
many
men
came
running
as
hard
as
they
could
drive
after
a
company
of
Women
:
The
Men
crying
out
,
Stop
,
Stop
;
and
the
Women
crying
for
Help
.
Lucifer
commanded
them
all
to
be
seiz'd
,
and
askt
what
was
the
matter
.
Alas
,
alas
!
(
cry'd
one
of
the
men
,
quite
out
of
breath
)
These
Carrions
have
made
us
Fathers
,
though
we
never
had
Children
.
Govern
your
Tongue
,
Sirrah
(
cry'd
a
Devil
of
Honour
,
that
had
a
kindness
for
the
Ladies
)
and
speak
truth
:
for
't
is
utterly
impossible
you
should
be
Fathers
without
Children
.
Pardon
me
,
said
the
Fellow
,
we
were
marry'd
men
,
and
honest
men
,
and
good
House-keepers
,
and
have
born
Offices
in
the
Parish
,
and
have
Children
that
call
us
Fathers
:
But
't
is
a
strange
thing
,
we
have
been
abroad
some
of
us
by
the
seven
year
together
;
Others
,
as
long
Bed-rid
;
and
so
impotent
,
that
the
Civilians
would
have
put
us
inter
frigidos
&
maleficiatos
;
and
yet
our
Wives
have
brought
us
every
year
a
Child
,
which
we
were
such
Fools
as
to
keep
and
bring
up
,
and
give
our selves
to
the
Devil
at
last
to
get
them
Estates
;
out
of
a
charitable
perswasion
(
forsooth
)
they
might
yet
be
our
own
,
though
for
a
twelve-month
together
(
perhaps
)
we
never
so
much
as
examin'd
whether
our
Wives
were
Fish
or
Flesh.
But
now
since
the
Mothers
are
dead
,
and
the
Children
grown
up
,
we
have
found
the
Tools
that
made
them
.
One
has
the
Coach-mans
Nose
;
another
the
Gentleman-Vsher's
Legs
;
a
third
a
Cousin-german's
Eyes
.
And
some
we
are
to
presume
,
conceiv'd
purely
by
strength
of
imagination
,
or
else
by
the
Ears
like
Weazels
.
Thereupon
appear'd
a
little
Remnant
of
a
man
;
a
dapper
Spaniard
,
with
a
kind
of
a
Besome-beard
,
and
a
Voice
not
unlike
the
Yapping
of
a
foysting
Cur.
As
he
came
neer
the
Company
,
he
set
up
his
throat
,
and
call'd
out
:
Ah
Jade
!
says
he
,
I
shall
now
take
ye
to
task
,
ye
Whore
you
,
for
making
me
Father
my
Negro's
Bastard
,
and
for
the
Estate
I
setled
upon
him
.
I
did
ever
misdoubt
foul
play
,
but
should
never
have
dreamt
of
That
ugly
Toad
,
when
there
was
such
choice
of
handsome
,
lusty
young
Fellows
about
us
;
but
it
may
be
she
had
them
too
.
I
curst
the
Monks
many
and
many
a
time
,
I
remember
,
to
the
Pit
of
Hell
,
Heaven
forgive
me
for
't
▪
for
the
Strumpet
would
be
perpetually
gadding
abroad
,
under
colour
of
going
to
Confession
,
and
in
sooth
,
I
was
never
any
great
Friend
to
Penance
and
Mortification
.
And
then
would
I
be
easing
my
mind
ever
and
anon
to
this
cursed
Moor.
I
cannot
imagine
(
said
I
)
where
this
Mistress
of
thine
should
commit
all
the
sins
that
she
goes
every
hour
of
the
day
to
confess
at
yonder
Monastery
.
And
then
would
this
Dog-Moor
answer
me
.
Alas
good
Lady
!
I
would
e'en
venture
my
Soul
with
hers
with
all
my
heart
;
she
spends
all
her
time
you
see
in
holy
Duties
.
I
was
at
that
time
so
innocent
,
that
I
suspected
nothing
more
,
than
a
pure
Respect
and
Civility
to
my
Wife
;
but
I
have
learnt
better
since
,
and
that
effectually
his
Soul
and
hers
were
commonly
ventur'd
in
the
same
Bottom
;
yes
and
their
Bodies
too
,
as
I
perceive
by
their
Magpy
Issue
,
for
the
Bastards
take
after
both
Father
and
Mother
.
So
that
at
this
rate
,
cry'd
the
adopted
Fathers
,
the
Husband
of
a
Whore
has
a
ple●sant
time
on
't
.
First
,
he
's
subjected
to
all
the
Pukings
,
Longings
,
and
peevish
importunities
,
that
a
breeding
Woman
gives
those
about
her
till
she
's
Laid
;
and
then
comes
the
squalling
of
the
Child
,
and
the
Twittle-twattle-Gossippings
of
the
Nurse
and
Midwife
,
that
must
be
well
treated
too
,
well
lodg'd
,
and
well
paid
.
A
sweet
Baby
,
says
one
(
to
the
Jade
the
Mother
on
't
)
't
is
e'en
as
like
the
Father
as
if
he
had
spit
it
out
on
's
mouth
:
It
has
the
very
Lips
,
the
very
Eyes
of
him
,
when
't
is
no
more
like
him
,
than
an
Apple
is
like
an
Oyster
.
And
in
conclusion
,
when
we
have
born
all
this
,
and
twenty
times
more
in
t'other
World
with
a
Christian
Patience
,
we
are
hurry'd
away
to
Hell
,
and
here
we
lie
a
Company
of
damn'd
Cuckolds
of
us
;
and
here
we
are
like
to
lie
,
for
ought
I
see
,
in
Saecula
Saeculorum
:
which
is
very
hard
,
and
in
truth
out
of
all
reason
.
I
cut
this
Visit
short
,
to
see
what
news
in
a
deep
Vault
neer
at
hand
,
where
we
heard
a
great
bustle
and
contest
betwixt
divers
Souls
and
the
Devils
.
There
were
the
Presumptuous
,
the
Revengeful
,
and
the
Envious
,
gaping
and
crying
out
as
they
would
break
their
hearts
.
Oh
,
that
I
could
but
be
born
again
!
says
one
;
Oh
,
that
I
might
back
into
the
world
again
!
says
another
;
Oh
,
that
I
were
but
to
die
once
more
!
crys
a
third
.
Insomuch
that
they
put
the
Devils
out
of
all
Patience
,
with
their
impertinent
and
unprofitable
Wishes
and
Exclamations
.
Hang
your selves
,
cry'd
they
,
for
a
pack
of
cousening
,
bawling
Rascals
:
You
live
again
?
and
be
born
again
?
and
what
if
you
might
do
't
a
thousand
times
over
?
You
would
only
die
at
last
a
thousand
times
greater
Villains
,
than
now
you
are
,
and
there
would
be
no
clearing
Hell
of
you
with
a
Dog-whip
.
However
,
to
try
you
,
and
make
you
know
your selves
;
we
have
Commission
to
let
you
Live
again
and
Return
.
Vp
then
ye
Varlets
,
go
,
be
born
again
:
Get
ye
into
the
World
again
.
Away
,
cry'd
the
Devils
,
with
a
lusty
lash
at
every
word
,
and
thrust
hard
to
have
got
them
out
.
But
the
poor
Rogues
hung
an
Arse
,
and
were
struck
with
such
a
Terrour
,
to
hear
of
Living
again
,
and
Returning
,
that
they
slunk
into
a
Corner
,
and
lay
as
quiet
upon
't
,
as
Lambs
.
At
length
,
one
of
the
Company
that
seem'd
to
have
somewhat
more
Brain
,
and
Resolution
then
his
Fellows
,
enter'd
very
gravely
upon
the
Debate
,
whether
they
should
go
out
,
or
no.
If
I
should
now
,
says
he
,
at
my
Second
Birth
,
come
into
the
World
a
Bastard
;
The
shame
would
be
mine
,
though
my
Parents
committed
the
fault
;
and
I
should
carry
the
Scandal
,
and
the
Infamy
of
it
to
my
Grave
.
Now
put
Cale
,
my
Mother
should
be
honest
,
(
for
that
's
not
Impossible
)
and
that
I
came
into
the
World
,
Legitimate
;
how
many
Follies
,
Vices
,
and
Diseases
are
there
that
run
in
a
Bloud
!
who
knows
,
but
I
should
be
Mad
,
or
Simple
?
Swear
,
Lye
,
Cheat
,
Whore
;
Nay
if
I
came
off
,
with
a
Little
Mortification
of
my
Carcass
,
as
the
Stone
,
the
Scurvy
,
or
the
Noble
Pox
,
I
were
a
happy
Man
.
But
oh
the
Lodging
,
the
Diet
,
and
the
Cookery
that
I
am
to
expect
for
a
matter
of
Nine
Months
in
my
Mother's
belly
:
and
then
the
Butter
and
Beer
that
must
be
spent
to
sweeten
me
,
when
I
change
my
Quarter
.
I
must
come
Crying
into
the
World
,
and
live
in
ignorance
even
of
what
Life
is
,
till
I
dye
;
and
then
as
ignorant
of
Death
too
,
till
't
is
past
.
I
Phansy
my
Swadling-Clouts
,
and
Blankets
to
be
worse
then
my
Winding-sheet
;
My
Cradle
represents
my
Tomb.
And
then
who
knows
,
whether
my
Nurse
shall
be
sound
,
or
No
?
Shee
'l
over-lay
me
perhaps
;
leave
me
some
four
and
twenty
hours
,
it
may
be
,
without
clean
Clouts
,
and
a
Pin
or
Two
all
the
while
perchance
,
up
to
the
Hilts
in
my
back-side
.
And
then
follows
Breeding
of
Teeth
,
and
Worms
;
with
all
the
Gripes
,
and
Disorders
that
are
caus'd
by
Vnwholesome
Milk
.
These
Miseries
are
Certain
,
and
why
should
I
run
them
over
again
?
If
it
happen
that
I
pass
the
state
of
Infancy
,
without
the
Pox
,
or
Meazils
:
I
must
be
then
pack't
away
to
School
,
to
get
the
Itch
;
a
Scal'd
Head
,
or
a
pair
of
Kib'd
Heels
.
In
Winter
,
't
is
ten
to
one
you
find
me
always
with
a
Snotty
Nose
;
and
perpetually
under
the
Lash
,
if
I
either
miss
my
Lesson
,
or
go
late
to
Shool
.
So
that
Hang
him
for
my
Part
that
would
be
born
again
;
for
any
thing
I
see
yet
.
When
I
come
up
toward
Man
;
the
Women
will
have
me
as
sure
as
a
Gun
,
for
they
have
a
Thousand
Ginnes
,
and
Devices
to
catch
Wood-cocks
;
and
if
ever
I
come
to
set
eye
upon
a
Lass
that
understands
Dress
,
and
Raillery
,
I
'm
gone
,
if
there
were
no
more
Lads
in
Christendom
.
But
for
my
part
I
am
as
sick
as
a
Dog
,
of
Powdering
,
Curling
,
and
playing
the
Lady-bird
.
I
would
not
for
all
the
world
be
in
the
Shoomakers
stocks
,
and
choak
my self
over
again
in
a
streight
Doublet
;
only
to
have
the
Ladies
say
,
Look
,
what
a
Delicate
shape
,
and
foot
that
Gentleman
has
.
And
I
should
take
as
little
pleasure
to
spend
six
hours
,
of
the
four
and
twenty
,
in
picking
Grey
hairs
out
of
my
Head
,
or
Beard
;
or
turning
White
into
Black
:
To
stand
half
ravish't
in
the
contemplation
of
my
own
shadow
:
To
dress
fine
,
and
go
to
Church
only
to
see
handsome
Ladies
:
To
correct
the
Midnight
Air
with
ardent
sighs
,
and
Ejaculations
;
and
to
keep
company
with
Owls
,
and
Batts
,
like
a
Bird
of
Evil
Omen
:
To
walk
the
round
of
a
Mistress
lodging
,
and
play
at
Bo-peep
at
the
corner
of
every
street
:
To
adore
her
imperfections
,
(
or
as
the
song
says
,
—
for
her
Vgliness
,
and
for
her
want
of
Coin
)
To
make
Bracelets
of
her
Locks
,
and
truck
a
Pearl
Necklace
for
a
Shoo-string
.
At
this
rate
,
I
say
,
Cursed
again
and
again
be
he
,
for
my
part
,
that
would
live
over
again
so
Wretched
a
Life
.
Being
come
now
to
write
full
Man
;
If
I
have
an
Estate
,
how
many
Cares
,
Suits
and
Wrangles
go
along
with
it
!
If
I
have
None
,
what
Murmuring
,
and
Regret
,
at
my
Misfortunes
!
By
this
Time
,
the
Sins
of
my
Youth
are
gotten
into
my
Bones
;
I
grow
Sowre
,
and
Melancholy
;
Nothing
pleases
me
;
I
curse
old
Age
to
Ten
thousand
Devils
,
and
the
Youth
which
I
can
never
recover
in
my
Veins
,
I
endeavour
to
fetch
out
of
the
Barber's
Shops
,
from
Perruques
,
Razors
,
and
Patches
,
to
conceal
,
or
at
least
disguise
all
the
Marks
and
Evidences
of
Nature
in
her
Decay
.
Nay
,
when
I
shall
have
never
an
Eye
to
see
with
,
nor
a
Tooth
left
in
my
head
;
Gowty
Legs
;
Wind-mills
in
my
Crown
;
my
Nose
running
like
a
Tap
,
and
Gravel
in
my
Reins
,
by
the
Bushel
;
then
must
I
make
Oath
that
all
this
is
nothing
but
mere
Accident
,
gotten
by
Lying
in
the
Field
,
or
the
like
,
and
out-face
the
Truth
in
the
very
Teeth
of
so
many
undeniable
Witnesses
.
There
is
no
Plague
Comparable
to
this
Hypocrisy
of
the
Members
.
To
have
an
Old
Fop
shake
his
Heels
,
when
he
's
ready
to
fall
to
pieces
;
and
cry
,
These
Legs
would
make
a
shift
yet
to
play
with
the
best
Legs
in
the
Company
;
and
then
with
a
lusty
Thump
on
's
Breast
,
fetch
ye
up
a
Hem
,
and
cry
,
Sound
at
Heart
Boy
,
and
a
Thousand
other
Fooleries
of
the
like
Nature
.
But
all
this
is
Nothing
,
to
the
Misery
of
an
Old
fellow
in
Love
;
especially
if
he
be
put
to
Gallant
it
against
a
Company
of
Young
Gamesters
.
Oh
the
Inward
shame
,
and
Vexation
,
to
see
himself
scarce
so
much
as
Neglected
.
It
happens
sometimes
times
that
a
Iolly
Lady
,
for
want
of
better
Entertainment
,
may
content
her self
with
one
of
these
Reverend
Fornicators
,
instead
of
a
Whetstone
;
but
alack
,
alack
!
the
poor
Man
i●
weak
,
though
willing
;
and
after
a
whole
Night
spent
,
in
cold
,
and
frivolous
Pretences
,
and
Excuses
,
away
he
goes
with
Torments
of
Rage
,
and
Confusion
about
him
,
not
to
be
exprest
;
and
many
a
heavy
Curse
is
sent
after
him
for
keeping
a
poor
Lady
from
her
Natural
Rest
,
to
so
little
purpose
.
How
often
must
I
be
put
to
the
Blush
too
,
when
every
old
Toast
shall
be
calling
me
Old
Acquaintance
,
and
telling
me
,
Oh
Sir
,
't
is
many
a
fair
Day
since
you
and
I
knew
one
Another
first
.
I
think
't
was
in
the
four
and
thirtieth
of
the
Queen
,
that
we
were
School-fellows
.
How
the
World
's
alter'd
since
!
&c.
And
then
must
my
head
be
turn'd
to
a
Memento
Mori
:
My
flesh
,
dissolv'd
into
Rheums
;
My
Skin
,
Wither'd
,
and
Wrinkl'd
;
with
a
staff
in
my
Hand
,
knocking
the
Earth
at
every
trembling
step
,
as
if
I
call'd
upon
my
Grave
to
receive
me
:
walking
,
like
a
Moving
Phantosme
;
my
Life
little
more
then
a
Dream
;
My
Reins
,
and
Bladder
turn'd
into
a
Perfect
Quarry
;
and
the
Vrinal
,
or
Piss-pot
my
whole
Study
.
My
next
heir
,
watching
,
every
Minute
,
for
the
long-look't-for
,
and
happy
hour
of
my
Departure
;
And
in
the
mean
time
,
I
'm
become
the
Physicians
Revenue
;
and
the
Surgeons
Practice
,
with
an
Apothecaries
shop
in
my
Guts
;
and
every
old
Iade
calling
me
Grandsire
.
No
no
▪
I
'l
no
more
Living
again
,
I
thank
ye
:
One
Hell
rather
then
two
Mothers
.
Let
us
now
consider
the
Comforts
of
Life
:
The
Humours
,
and
the
Manners
.
He
that
would
be
Rich
,
must
play
the
Thief
,
or
the
Cheat
;
He
that
would
rise
in
the
World
,
must
turn
Parasite
,
Informer
,
or
Projecter
.
He
that
Marries
,
Ventures
fair
for
the
Horn
,
either
before
,
or
after
.
There
is
no
Valour
,
without
Swearing
,
Quarrelling
or
Hectoring
.
If
ye
are
poor
,
No
body
Owns
ye
.
If
Rich
,
you
'l
know
No
body
.
If
you
dye
Young
,
what
pity
it
was
(
they
'l
say
)
that
he
should
be
cut
off
thus
in
his
Prime
.
If
Old
:
He
was
e'en
past
his
best
;
there
's
no
great
Mis●
of
him
.
If
you
are
Religious
,
and
frequent
the
Church
,
and
the
Sacrament
;
You
're
an
Hypocrite
;
And
without
this
,
y'
are
an
Atheist
,
or
an
Heretick
.
If
you
are
Gay
,
and
pleasant
,
you
pass
presently
for
a
Buffon
:
and
if
Pensive
,
and
reserv'd
,
you
are
taken
to
be
soure
,
and
Censorious
.
Courtesy
is
call'd
Colloguing
,
and
Currying
of
Favour
:
Downright
Honesty
,
and
plain-dealing
,
is
Interpreted
to
be
Pride
,
and
Ill
manners
.
This
is
the
World
;
and
for
all
that
's
in
't
,
I
would
not
have
it
to
go
over
again
.
If
any
of
ye
,
My
Masters
(
said
he
to
his
Camerades
)
be
of
another
Opinion
,
hold
up
your
hands
.
No
,
No
(
they
cry'd
all
Unanimously
)
No
more
Generation-work
,
I
beseech
ye
;
Better
the
Devils
,
then
the
Midwives
.
After
This
,
came
a
Testator
,
cursing
,
and
Raving
,
like
a
Bedlam
,
that
He
had
made
his
last
Will
,
and
Testament
.
Ah
Villein
!
(
said
he
)
for
a
Man
to
murder
himself
as
I
have
done
!
If
I
had
not
Seal'd
,
I
had
not
dy'd
.
Of
all
things
,
next
a
Physician
,
Deliver
me
from
a
Testament
.
It
has
kill'd
more
then
the
Pestilence
.
Oh
Miserable
Mortals
;
let
the
Living
take
warning
by
the
Dead
,
and
make
no
Testaments
.
It
was
my
hard
Luck
,
first
to
put
my
Life
into
the
Physicians
power
,
and
then
by
making
my
Will
,
to
sign
the
Sentence
of
Death
upon
my self
,
and
my
Own
Execution
.
Put
your
Soul
,
and
your
Estate
in
Order
,
(
says
the
Doctor
)
for
there
's
no
hope
of
Life
;
And
the
Word
was
no
sooner
out
,
but
I
was
so
wise
and
Devout
(
forsooth
)
as
to
fall
immediately
upon
the
Prologue
of
my
Will
,
with
an
In
Nomine
Domini
,
Amen
,
&c.
And
when
I
came
to
dispose
of
my
Goods
and
Chattels
I
pronounc'd
these
Bloody
Words
(
I
would
I
had
been
Tongue-ty'd
when
I
did
it
)
I
make
and
Constitute
my
Son
,
my
Sole
Exec'tor
.
Item
,
to
my
Dear
Wife
,
I
give
and
Bequeath
all
my
Playes
,
and
Romances
,
and
all
the
Furniture
in
the
Rooms
upon
the
Second
Story
.
To
my
very
good
Friend
T.
B.
my
large
Tankard
,
for
a
Remembrance
.
To
my
Foot-boy
Robin
,
five
pound
to
bind
him
Prentice
:
To
Betty
that
tended
me
in
my
sickness
,
my
little
Candle-Cup
.
To
Mr.
Doctor
,
my
fair
Table-Diamond
,
for
his
Care
of
me
in
my
Illness
.
After
Signing
,
and
Sealing
,
the
Ink
was
scarce
dry
upon
the
Paper
,
but
methought
the
Earth
open'd
as
if
it
had
been
hungry
to
devour
me
.
My
Son
and
my
Legatees
were
presently
Casting
it
up
,
how
many
hours
I
might
yet
hold
out
.
If
I
call'd
for
the
Cordial
Iulep
,
or
a
little
of
Dr.
Gilbert's
Water
;
my
Son
was
taking
Possession
of
my
Estate
:
My
Wife
so
busy
about
the
Beds
,
and
Hangings
,
that
she
could
not
intend
it
.
The
Boy
,
and
the
Wench
could
understand
Nothing
but
about
their
Legacies
.
My
very
good
Friend's
Mind
was
wholly
upon
his
Tankard
.
My
kind
〈◊〉
I
must
confess
took
Occasion
now
and
then
,
to
handle
my
Pulse
,
and
see
whether
the
Diamond
were
of
the
right
Black
Water
,
or
no.
If
I
ask't
him
,
what
I
might
Eat
;
his
Answer
was
;
Any
thing
,
any
thing
,
E'en
what
you
please
your self
.
At
every
Grone
I
fetch
't
,
they
were
calling
for
their
Legacies
;
which
they
could
not
have
till
I
was
Dead
.
But
if
I
were
to
begin
the
World
again
,
I
think
I
should
make
another
kind
of
Testament
.
I
would
say
.
A
Curse
upon
him
that
shall
have
my
Estate
when
I
am
Dead
:
And
may
the
first
bit
of
Bread
he
eats
out
on
't
,
choak
him
.
The
Devil
in
Hell
take
what
I
cannot
carry
away
,
and
him
too
,
that
struggles
for
't
,
if
He
can
Catch
him
.
If
I
dye
,
let
my
Boy
Robin
have
the
Strappado
,
three
hours
a
day
,
to
be
duly
paid
him
during
Life
.
Let
my
Wife
dye
of
the
Pip
,
or
the
Mother
;
(
not
a
half
penny
matter
which
)
but
let
her
first
live
long
Enough
to
Plague
the
Damn'd
Doctor
,
and
Indite
him
for
poysoning
her
Poor
Husband
.
To
speak
sincerely
,
I
can
never
forgive
that
Dog-Leech
.
Was
it
not
enough
to
make
me
Sick
,
when
I
was
well
,
without
making
me
Dead
,
when
I
was
Sick
?
And
not
to
rest
there
neither
,
but
to
persecute
me
in
my
Grave
too
.
But
to
say
the
Truth
,
this
is
only
Neighbour's-fare
;
for
all
those
fools
that
trust
in
them
,
are
serv'd
with
the
same
Sawce
.
A
Vomit
,
or
a
Purge
is
as
good
a
Pass-port
into
the
other
World
,
as
a
man
would
wish
.
And
then
when
our
heads
are
laid
;
't
is
never
to
be
endured
,
the
Scandals
they
cast
upon
our
Bodies
,
and
Memories
!
Heaven
rest
his
Soul
(
crys
one
)
He
kill'd
himself
with
a
Debauch
.
How
is
't
possible
(
says
another
)
to
cure
a
man
that
keeps
no
Diet
?
He
was
a
Mad-man
;
(
crys
a
Third
)
a
Meer
Sot
,
and
would
not
be
govern'd
by
his
Physician
.
His
Body
was
as
Rotten
as
a
Pear
:
He
had
as
many
Diseases
as
a
Horse
:
and
it
was
not
in
the
Power
of
Man
to
save
him
.
And
truly
't
was
well
that
his
hour
was
come
,
for
he
had
better
a
great
deal
Dye
well
,
then
live
on
as
he
did
.
Thieves
and
Murtherers
that
ye
are
;
You
your selves
are
that
hour
ye
talk
of
.
The
Physician
is
only
Death
in
a
Disguise
,
and
brings
his
Patients
Hour
along
with
him
.
Cruel
People
!
Is
it
not
Enough
to
take
away
a
Man's
life
;
and
like
Common
Hang-men
to
be
paid
for
't
when
ye
have
done
:
but
you
must
blast
the
Honour
too
of
those
you
have
dispatch't
,
to
excuse
your
Ignorance
?
Let
but
the
Living
follow
my
Counsel
,
and
write
their
Testaments
after
This
Copy
,
they
shall
live
long
and
Happily
;
and
not
go
out
of
the
World
at
last
,
like
a
Rat
with
a
straw
in
his
Arse
(
as
a
learned
Author
has
it
)
or
be
cut
off
in
the
flower
of
their
days
,
by
these
Counterfeit
Doctors
of
the
faculty
of
the
Close-stool
.
The
dead
man
ply'd
his
discourse
with
so
much
Gravity
and
Earnestness
,
that
Lucifer
began
to
believe
what
he
said
.
But
because
all
Truths
are
not
to
be
spoken
,
especially
among
the
Devils
,
where
hardly
any
are
admitted
;
and
for
fear
of
mischief
,
if
the
Doctors
should
come
to
hear
what
had
been
said
,
Lucifer
presently
order'd
the
Fellow
should
be
Gagg'd
,
or
to
put
in
security
for
his
good
behaviour
.
His
mouth
was
no
sooner
stopt
,
but
another
was
open'd
;
and
one
of
the
damn'd
came
running
cross
the
Company
,
and
so
up
and
down
,
back
and
forward
(
like
a
Cur
that
had
lost
his
Master
)
bawling
as
if
he
had
been
out
of
his
Wits
,
and
crying
out
,
Oh!
Where
am
I
?
Where
am
I
?
I
am
abus'd
,
I
am
chous'd
:
What
's
the
meaning
of
all
this
?
Here
are
damning
Devils
;
tempting
Devils
;
and
tormenting
Devils
;
but
the
Devil
a
Devil
can
I
find
of
the
Devils
that
brought
me
hither
:
They
have
gotten
away
my
Devils
:
where
are
they
?
Give
me
my
Devils
again
.
It
might
well
make
the
Company
stare
,
to
see
a
Fellow
hunting
for
Devils
in
Hell
,
where
they
swarm
in
Legions
.
But
as
he
was
in
this
Hurry
,
a
Governante
caught
him
by
the
arm
,
and
gave
him
a
half
turn
,
and
stopt
him
.
Thou
art
a
Luckey-bird
(
says
she
)
if
thou
wantest
Devils
here
,
where
do'st
expect
to
find
them
?
He
knew
her
as
soon
as
he
saw
her
.
And
Art
thou
here
old
Beelzebub
in
a
Petticoat
?
(
said
he
)
the
very
Picture
of
Satan
;
The
Coupler
of
Male
and
Female
;
The
Buckle
and
Thong
of
Leachery
;
The
Multiplyer
of
sin
,
and
the
Guide
of
Sinners
;
The
Seasoner
of
Rotten
Mutton
;
The
Interpretress
betwixt
Whores
and
Knaves
;
The
Preface
to
the
Remedy
of
Love
,
and
the
Prologue
to
the
Critical
Minute
.
Speak
,
and
without
more
ado
,
tell
me
;
where
are
the
Devils
and
their
Dams
that
brought
me
hither
?
These
are
none
of
them
.
No
,
no
;
I
am
not
such
and
Awfe
as
to
be
Trepan'd
,
and
spirited
away
by
Devils
with
Tails
,
Horns
,
Bristles
,
Wings
,
that
smell
as
if
they
had
been
smoakt
in
a
Chimney-Corner
.
The
Devils
that
I
look
for
,
are
worse
than
these
.
Where
are
the
Mothers
that
play
the
Bawds
to
their
own
Daughters
?
and
the
Aunts
that
do
as
much
for
their
Neices
,
and
make
them
caper
and
sparkle
like
Wild-fire
?
The
black-ey'd
Girls
,
that
carry
fire
in
their
Eyes
,
and
strike
as
sure
as
a
Lance
from
the
Rest
of
a
Cavalier
?
Where
are
the
Flatterers
,
that
speak
nothing
but
pleasing
things
?
The
Make-bates
and
Incendiaries
,
that
are
the
very
Canker
of
Humane
Society
?
Where
are
the
Story-Mongers
?
The
Masters
of
the
faculty
of
Lying
?
That
Report
more
than
they
,
Hear
,
Affirm
more
than
they
Know
,
and
swear
more
than
they
Believe
.
Those
slanderous
Backbiters
,
that
like
Vultures
prey
only
upon
Carrion
?
Where
are
the
Hypocrites
that
turn
Devotion
into
Interest
,
and
make
a
Revenue
of
a
Commandment
?
That
pretend
Extasie
when
they
are
drunk
;
and
utter
the
Fumes
and
Dreams
of
their
Luxury
and
Tipple
for
Revelations
?
That
make
Ch●ppels
of
their
Parlours
;
Preachment
of
their
ordinary
Entertainments
;
and
every
thing
they
do
is
a
miracle
.
They
can
Divine
all
that
's
told
them
;
and
raise
people
to
life
again
,
that
counterfeit
sick
,
when
they
should
work
;
and
give
an
honest
man
to
the
Devil
with
a
Deo
gratias
.
These
are
the
Devils
I
would
be
at
:
These
are
they
that
have
damn'd
me
;
look
them
out
,
and
find
them
for
me
,
ye
impudent
Hag
,
or
I
shall
be
so
bold
as
to
search
your
French
Hood
for
them
.
And
with
that
word
,
he
fell
on
upon
the
poor
Governante
,
tore
off
her
Head-Geer
,
and
laid
about
him
so
furiously
,
that
there
were
would
have
been
no
getting
him
off
,
if
Lucifer
had
not
made
use
of
his
Absolute
Authority
to
quiet
him
.
Immediately
upon
the
composing
of
this
Fray
,
we
heard
the
shooting
of
Bars
and
Bolts
,
the
opening
of
Doors
and
Hinges
that
creakt
for
want
of
Grease
,
and
a
strange
humming
of
a
great
number
of
People
.
The
first
that
appear'd
,
were
a
company
of
Bold
,
Talkative
,
and
painted
old
Women
;
but
as
bonny
and
gamesome
,
tickling
and
toying
with
one
another
,
as
if
they
had
never
seen
Fifteen
;
and
carrying
it
out
with
an
Air
of
much
satisfaction
and
content
.
The
Babbler
was
somewhat
scandaliz'd
at
their
Behaviour
;
and
told
them
how
ill
they
did
to
be
so
merry
in
Hell
:
and
several
others
admir'd
it
as
much
,
and
askt
them
the
reason
of
it
,
considering
their
Condition
.
With
that
,
one
of
the
Gang
that
was
wretchedly
thin
and
pale
,
and
rais'd
upon
a
pair
of
Heels
that
made
her
legs
longer
than
her
Body
,
told
Lucifer
,
with
great
Respect
;
that
at
their
first
coming
,
they
were
as
sad
as
it
was
possible
for
a
company
of
damn'd
old
Iades
to
be
.
But
(
says
she
)
we
were
a
little
comforted
,
when
we
heard
of
no
other
Punishments
here
,
than
Weeping
and
Gnashing
of
Teeth
;
and
in
some
hope
to
come
off
upon
reasonable
terms
:
for
we
have
not
among
us
all
so
much
as
a
drop
of
moisture
in
our
bodies
,
nor
a
Tooth
in
our
Heads
.
Search
them
presently
(
cry'd
the
Intermedler
)
squeeze
the
Balls
of
their
Eyes
,
and
let
their
Gums
be
examin'd
,
you
'll
find
Snags
,
Stumps
,
or
Roots
;
or
enough
of
somewhat
or
other
there
to
spoil
the
Jest.
Upon
the
Scrutiny
,
they
were
found
so
dry
,
that
they
were
good
for
nothing
in
the
world
,
but
to
serve
for
Tinder
or
Matches
;
and
so
they
were
dispos'd
of
into
the
Devils
Tinder-boxes
.
While
they
were
casing
up
the
Old
Women
,
there
came
on
a
number
of
people
of
several
sorts
and
qualities
,
that
●all'd
out
to
the
first
they
saw
;
Pray'e
Gentlemen
(
said
they
)
before
we
go
any
further
,
will
ye
direct
us
to
the
Court
of
Rewards
?
How
's
That
?
(
cry'd
one
of
the
Company
)
I
was
afraid
we
had
been
in
Hell
;
but
since
you
talk
of
Rewards
,
I
hope
't
is
but
Purgatory
.
Good
,
Good
!
(
said
the
whole
Multitude
)
you
'l
quickly
find
where
you
are
:
Purgatory
!
(
cry'd
the
Intermedler
)
you
have
left
that
up
the
Hill
there
,
upon
the
Right
hand
.
This
is
Hell
,
and
a
Place
of
Punishment
;
Here
's
no
Registry
of
Rewards
.
Then
we
are
mistaken
(
said
he
that
spake
first
.
)
How
so
?
(
cry'd
the
Intermedler
)
You
shall
hear
(
said
the
other
)
We
were
in
the
other
world
intitled
to
the
Order
of
the
Squires
of
the
Pad
;
and
borrow'd
now
and
then
a
small
sum
upon
the
Kings
High-way
:
we
understood
somewhat
too
of
the
Cross-bite
,
and
the
use
of
the
frail
Dye
.
Some
of
our
conscientious
and
charitable
friends
,
would
fain
have
drawn
us
off
from
the
course
we
were
in
;
and
to
give
them
their
due
,
bestow'd
a
great
deal
of
good
counsel
upon
us
to
very
little
purpose
;
for
we
were
in
a
pretty
way
of
Thriving
,
and
had
gotten
a
habit
of
,
and
could
not
leave
it
.
We
askt
them
,
What
would
you
have
us
do
?
Money
we
have
none
,
and
without
it
,
there
's
no
living
:
should
we
stay
till
it
were
brought
,
or
came
alone
?
How
would
ye
have
a
poor
Individuum
Vagum
to
live
?
That
has
neither
Estate
,
Office
,
Master
,
nor
Friend
to
maintain
him
:
and
is
quite
out
of
his
Element
,
unless
he
be
either
in
a
Tavern
,
a
Bawdy-house
,
or
a
Gaming
Ordinary
.
Now
,
That
's
the
man
,
that
Providence
has
appointed
to
live
by
his
Wits
.
Our
Advisers
saw
there
was
no
good
to
be
done
,
and
went
their
way
,
telling
us
,
that
in
the
other
world
we
should
meet
with
our
Reward
.
They
would
tell
us
sometime
,
how
base
a
thing
it
was
to
defame
the
house
,
and
abuse
the
Bed
of
a
Friend
.
Our
Answer
was
ready
;
Well!
and
had
we
not
better
do
it
there
where
the
house
is
open
to
us
,
the
Master
and
Lady
kind
,
the
occasion
fair
and
easie
;
than
to
run
a
Catterwawling
into
a
Family
where
every
servant
in
the
house
is
a
spy
,
and
(
perhaps
)
a
Fellow
behind
every
door
in
the
house
with
a
Dagger
,
or
Pistol
in
his
hand
to
entertain
us
.
Upon
this
,
our
Grave
Counsellours
finding
us
so
resolute
,
e'en
gave
us
over
,
and
told
us
as
before
;
that
,
In
the
other
world
we
should
meet
with
our
Reward
.
Now
taking
This
to
be
the
other
World
these
honest
men
told
us
of
,
we
are
inquiring
after
the
Rewards
they
promis'd
us
.
Abominable
Scoundrels
!
said
an
Officer
of
Iustice
,
there
at
hand
;
How
many
of
your
reprobated
Companions
,
have
squander'd
away
their
Fortunes
upon
Whores
and
Dice
,
exposing
not
only
their
Wives
and
Children
,
but
many
a
Noble
Family
to
a
shameful
and
irreparable
Ruine
:
And
let
any
man
put
in
a
word
of
wholsome
advice
,
their
Answer
is
,
Tush
,
Tush
;
Our
Wives
and
Children
are
in
the
hands
of
Providence
;
and
let
him
provide
for
the
Rooks
,
that
feeds
the
Ravens
.
Then
was
it
toldye
,
you
should
find
your
Reward
in
the
other
World
;
and
the
time
is
now
come
,
wherein
ye
shall
receive
it
:
Vp
,
up
then
ye
cursed
Spirits
,
and
away
with
them
.
At
which
word
,
a
Legion
of
Devils
fell
on
upon
the
miserable
Caitiffs
,
with
Whips
and
Firebrands
,
and
gave
them
their
long
expected
Reward
;
And
at
every
lash
,
a
voice
was
heard
to
say
;
In
the
other
World
you
shall
receive
your
Reward
.
These
Wretches
in
the
mean
while
,
damning
and
sinking
themselves
to
the
pit
of
Hell
,
still
,
as
if
they
had
been
upon
Earth
,
and
vomiting
their
customary
and
execrable
Blasphemies
.
Just
as
this
storm
blew
over
,
there
drew
neer
a
multitude
of
Bayliffs
,
Serjeants
,
Catchpoles
,
and
other
Officers
of
Prey
,
with
the
Thieves
Devil
,
bound
hand
and
foot
,
and
a
foul
Accusation
against
him
.
Whereupon
Lucifer
with
a
fell
countenance
took
his
seat
in
a
flaming
Chair
,
and
call'd
his
Officers
about
him
.
So
soon
as
the
Prince
had
taken
his
place
,
a
certain
Officer
began
his
Report
.
Here
is
before
thee
(
quoth
he
)
a
Devil
(
most
mighty
Lucifer
)
that
stands
charg'd
with
Ignorance
in
his
Trade
;
and
the
shame
of
his
Quality
and
Profession
,
instead
of
damning
men
,
he
has
made
it
his
business
to
save
them
.
The
word
save
,
put
the
Court
in
such
a
Rage
,
that
they
bit
their
lips
,
till
the
bloud
started
,
and
the
fire
sparkled
at
their
Eyes
;
and
Lucifer
,
turning
about
to
his
Atturney
;
Who
would
ever
have
imagin'd
,
said
he
,
that
so
treacherous
a
Rascal
could
have
been
harbour'd
in
my
Dominions
?
It
is
most
certain
,
my
gracious
Lord
,
reply'd
the
Atturney
,
that
this
Devil
has
been
very
diligent
in
drawing
people
into
Thefts
and
Pilferies
,
and
then
when
they
come
to
be
discover'd
,
they
are
clapt
up
and
hang'd
,
or
some
mischief
or
other
.
But
still
before
Execution
,
the
Ordinary
calls
them
to
shrift
;
and
many
times
the
toy
takes
them
in
the
head
,
to
confess
and
repent
,
and
so
they
are
sav'd
.
Now
this
si●ly
Devil
thinks
,
that
when
he
has
brought
them
to
Steal
,
Murther
,
Coin
,
and
the
like
,
he
has
done
his
part
,
and
so
he
leaves
them
:
whereas
he
should
stick
close
to
them
in
the
Prison
;
and
be
tempting
of
them
to
despair
,
and
make
away
themselves
.
But
when
they
are
once
left
to
the
Priest
,
he
commonly
brings
them
to
a
sight
of
their
sins
,
and
they
'scape
.
Now
this
simple
Devil
was
not
aware
,
it
seems
,
that
many
a
soul
goes
to
Heaven
from
the
Gallows
,
the
Wheel
,
and
the
Faggot
:
and
this
failing
has
lost
your
Highness
many
a
fair
Purchase
.
Here
's
enough
(
cry'd
the
President
)
and
there
needs
no
more
Charge
against
him
.
The
poor
Devil
thought
it
was
high
time
to
speak
now
,
when
they
were
just
upon
the
point
of
passing
his
Sentence
:
and
so
he
cry'd
out
,
My
Lord
(
said
he
)
I
beseech
you
hear
me
;
for
though
they
say
the
Devil
is
deaf
,
it
is
not
meant
of
your
Greatness
:
so
there
was
a
general
silence
,
and
thus
he
proceeded
.
I
cannot
deny
(
my
Lord
)
but
Tyburn
is
the
way
to
Paradise
,
and
many
a
man
goes
to
Heaven
from
the
Gallows
.
But
if
you
will
set
those
that
are
damn'd
for
condemning
others
,
against
those
that
are
sav'd
from
the
Gallows
,
Hell
will
be
found
no
Loser
by
me
at
the
foot
of
the
Accompt
.
How
m●ny
Marshal's-me●
,
Turn-keys
,
and
Keepers
have
I
sent
ye
for
letting
a
Coiner
give
them
the
slip
now
and
then
,
with
his
false
Money
(
alwaies
provided
they
leave
better
Money
instead
on
't
)
How
many
false
Witnesses
,
and
Knights
of
the
Post
,
that
would
set
their
Consciences
like
Clocks
to
go
faster
or
slower
,
according
as
they
had
more
or
less
weight
,
and
swear
ex
tempore
,
at
all
Rates
and
Prices
!
How
many
Sollicitors
,
Atturneys
,
and
Clerks
,
that
would
draw
ye
up
a
Declaration
or
an
Inditement
so
slily
,
that
I
my self
could
hardly
discover
any
Errour
in
't
;
and
yet
when
it
came
to
the
Test
,
it
was
as
plain
as
the
nose
on
a
mans
face
(
that
is
to
say
again
,
Provided
they
were
well
paid
for
the
Fashion
)
How
many
Iaylers
that
would
wink
at
an
Escape
for
a
Lusty
Bribe
!
And
how
many
Atturneys
that
would
give
ye
Dispatch
or
Delay
thereafter
as
they
were
greas'd
!
Now
after
all
this
,
what
does
it
signifie
,
if
one
Thief
of
a
thousand
comes
to
the
Gallows
?
he
only
suffers
because
he
was
poor
,
that
there
may
be
the
better
Trading
for
the
Rich
,
and
without
any
design
in
the
world
to
suppress
stealing
.
Nay
It
often
falls
out
,
that
they
that
bring
the
Malefactor
to
the
Gibbet
,
are
the
worse
Criminals
of
the
two
.
But
they
are
never
lookt
after
;
or
if
they
should
be
,
they
have
tricks
and
fetches
enough
to
bring
themselves
off
;
so
that
it
fares
in
this
case
,
as
it
did
with
him
that
had
his
house
troubled
with
Rats
,
and
would
needs
take
in
a
company
of
Cats
to
destroy
them
:
The
Rats
would
be
nibbling
at
his
Cheese
,
his
Bacon
,
a
crust
of
Bread
,
and
now
and
then
a
Candles
End
:
But
when
the
Cats
came
,
down
went
a
Milk-bowl
,
away
goes
a
Brace
of
Partriges
,
or
a
Couple
of
Pigeons
;
and
the
poor
man
must
content
himself
to
go
supperless
to
Bed
.
In
the
Conclusion
,
the
Rats
were
troublesome
,
but
the
Cats
were
intolerable
.
And
then
there
's
This
in
't
:
suppose
One
poor
fellow
hangs
and
goes
to
Heaven
;
I
do
but
give
him
in
truck
for
two
hundred
at
least
,
that
deserve
to
be
hang'd
,
but
'scape
and
go
to
Hell
at
last
.
Beside
;
A
Thief
upon
a
Gibbet
,
is
as
good
as
a
Roasted-Dog
in
a
Pigeon-house
;
for
ye
sh●ll
immediately
have
two
or
three
thousand
Witches
about
him
,
for
s●ips
of
his
H●lter
,
an
Eye-Tooth
,
or
a
Collop
of
his
Fat
,
which
i●
of
Soveraign
use
in
many
of
their
Charms
.
But
in
fine
,
let
me
do
what
I
will
,
my
services
are
not
understood
.
My
Successor
,
it
may
be
,
will
discharge
his
Duty
Better
,
and
indeed
I
am
very
well
content
to
lay
down
my
Commission
;
for
,
(
to
say
the
Truth
)
I
am
in
Years
,
and
would
gladly
have
a
Little
Rest
now
,
in
my
old
age
,
which
I
rather
propose
to
my self
in
the
Service
of
some
Pretender
,
then
where
I
am
.
Lucifer
heard
him
with
great
Patience
,
and
in
the
End
,
gave
him
all
the
satisfaction
imaginable
;
strictly
charging
the
Evil
Spirits
that
had
abus'd
him
,
to
do
so
no
more
,
upon
hazard
of
Pain●
Corporal
,
and
Spiritual
:
And
they
desir'd
him
too
,
that
he
would
not
lay
down
his
Employment
,
for
he
was
strong
enough
yet
to
do
very
good
service
in
it
.
But
to
think
of
Easing
himself
,
by
going
to
a
Pretender
,
he
'd
find
himself
mistaken
,
for
't
was
a
Duty
he
'd
never
be
able
to
endure
.
Well!
(
says
he
)
ee'n
what
your
Highness
pleases
.
But
truly
I
th●ught
a
Devil
might
have
liv'd
very
Comfortably
in
that
Condition
;
for
he
has
no
more
to
do
,
that
I
can
see
,
then
to
keep
his
Ears
open
,
and
learn
his
Trade
.
For
put
Case
it
should
be
some
Pretender
to
a
Good
Office
,
or
a
fat
Bishoprick
(
though
the
Fathers
,
and
Counsels
are
against
Pretenders
in
This
Case
)
I
Phansy
to
my self
,
all
the
Pleasure
,
and
Divertisement
that
may
be
.
It
is
as
good
as
going
to
School
,
for
these
People
teach
the
Devils
their
A.
B.
C.
And
all
that
we
have
to
do
,
is
to
sit
still
,
and
learn
.
The
Vision
that
follow'd
this
,
was
the
Daemon
of
Tabacca
;
which
I
must
confess
did
not
a
little
surprize
me
.
I
have
indeed
,
often
said
to
my self
;
Certainly
These
Smokers
are
Possest
;
but
I
could
never
swear
it
till
now
.
I
have
(
said
the
Devil
)
by
bringing
this
Weed
into
Spain
,
reveng'd
the
Indians
upon
the
Spaniards
for
all
the
Massacres
and
Butcheries
they
committed
there
,
and
done
Them
more
Mischief
,
then
ever
Colon
,
Cortes
,
Almero
,
Pizarro
did
in
the
Indies
:
By
how
much
it
is
more
honourable
,
to
dye
upon
a
Sword
's
point
,
by
Gun-shot
,
or
at
the
Mouth
of
a
Cannon
;
then
for
a
man
to
Snivel
,
and
Sneeze
himself
into
another
World
;
or
to
go
away
in
a
Meagrim
,
or
a
Spotted-Feaver
,
perchance
;
which
is
the
Ordinary
effect
of
this
poysonous
Tabacca
.
It
is
with
Tobacconists
,
as
't
is
with
Demoniacs
under
an
Exorcism
;
They
fume
,
and
Vaper
,
but
the
Devil
sticks
to
them
still
.
Many
there
are
that
make
a
very
Idol
of
it
,
they
admire
,
they
adore
it
,
tempting
and
persecuting
all
people
to
take
it
,
and
the
bare
mention
of
it
,
puts
them
into
an
Extasie
.
In
the
Smoke
,
it
is
a
Probation
for
Hell
,
where
another
day
they
must
Endure
Smoking
;
Taken
in
Powder
,
at
the
Nose
,
it
draws
upon
Youth
the
Incommodities
of
old
age
,
in
the
perpetual
Annoyance
of
Rheum
,
and
Drivel
.
The
Devil
of
Subornation
came
next
,
which
was
a
good
complexion'd
,
and
a
well
timber'd
Devil
:
to
my
great
Amazement
I
must
acknowledg
,
for
I
had
never
seen
any
Devils
till
now
,
but
what
were
Extreme
Ugly
.
The
Air
of
his
face
was
so
familiar
to
me
,
that
methought
I
had
seen
it
in
a
Thousand
several
places
;
som●time
under
a
Veil
,
sometime
open
;
now
under
one
shape
,
and
then
under
another
.
One
while
he
call'd
himself
Child's-play
;
Another
while
,
Kind
Entertainment
;
Here
,
Payment
;
there
,
Restitution
;
and
in
a
third
place
,
Almes
:
but
in
fine
,
I
could
never
learn
his
right
Name
.
I
remember
in
some
places
I
have
heard
him
call'd
Inheritance
;
Profit
;
Good
Cheap
;
Patrimony
,
Gratitude
.
Here
he
was
call'd
Doctor
;
there
,
Batchelor
.
With
the
Lawyers
,
Solliciters
,
and
Atturneys
,
he
past
under
the
Name
of
Right
;
and
the
Confessers
call'd
him
Charity
.
He
was
well
accompany'd
,
and
stil'd
himself
Satan's
Lieutenant
:
but
there
was
a
Devil
of
Consequence
that
oppos'd
him
,
might
and
main
:
and
made
This
Proclamation
of
himself
.
Be
it
known
,
(
says
he
)
that
I
am
the
Great
Embroyler
,
and
Politick
Entangler
of
Affairs
.
The
Deluder
of
Princes
,
The
Pretext
of
the
Vnworthy
,
and
the
Excuse
of
Tyrants
.
I
can
make
Black
,
White
;
and
give
what
Colour
I
please
to
the
foulest
Actions
in
Nature
.
If
I
had
a
Mind
to
overturn
the
World
,
and
put
all
in
a
general
Confusion
,
I
could
do
it
;
for
I
have
it
in
my
Power
,
to
Banish
Order
and
Reason
out
of
it
:
To
turn
Sauciness
,
and
Importunity
into
Merit
;
Example
into
Necessity
;
To
give
Law
to
Success
;
Authority
to
Infamy
;
and
Credit
to
Insolence
.
I
have
the
Tongues
of
all
Counsellers
at
my
Girdle
,
and
they
shall
speak
neither
more
nor
less
then
just
as
I
please
.
In
short
,
That
's
Easie
to
me
which
others
account
Impossible
,
and
while
I
live
,
ye
need
never
fear
either
Virtue
,
Justice
or
Good
Government
in
the
World
.
This
Devil
of
Subornation
,
that
talks
of
his
Lieutenancy
,
what
could
he
ever
have
done
without
me
?
He
's
a
Rascal
that
no
Person
of
Quality
would
admit
into
his
Company
,
if
I
did
not
fit
him
with
Vizors
,
and
Disguises
.
Let
him
hold
his
Tongue
then
,
and
know
himself
;
and
let
me
hear
no
more
of
those
Disputes
about
the
Lieutenancy
of
Hell
,
for
I
have
Lucifer's
Broad
Seal
to
shew
for
my
Title
to
't
.
For
my
part
(
cry'd
another
Mutinous
Spirit
)
I
am
one
of
those
humble-minded
Devils
that
can
content
my self
to
hold
the
Door
,
upon
a
good
Occasion
;
or
knock
under
the
Table
,
and
play
at
small
Game
rather
then
stand
out
.
But
few
words
among
Friends
are
best
,
and
when
I
have
spoken
three
or
four
,
let
him
come
up
that
lists
.
I
am
then
(
says
he
)
the
Devil
Interpreter
,
and
my
business
is
to
Gloss
upon
the
Text
;
In
which
Case
,
the
Cuckolds
are
Exceedingly
beholden
to
me
;
for
I
have
much
to
say
for
the
Honour
of
the
Horn.
How
should
a
poor
fellow
that
has
a
handsome
Wench
to
his
Wife
,
and
never
a
penny
to
live
on
,
hold
up
his
Head
in
the
World
,
if
it
were
not
for
that
Quality
?
I
have
a
pretty
faculty
in
doing
good
Offices
for
Distressed
Ladies
,
at
a
time
of
Need
;
and
I
make
the
whole
Sex
sensible
how
great
a
Folly
,
and
Madness
it
is
to
neglect
those
sweet
opportunities
.
Among
other
Secrets
,
I
have
found
out
a
way
to
establish
an
Office
for
Thievery
,
where
the
Officers
shall
be
Thieves
and
Iustify
it
when
they
have
done
.
Here
he
stop't
.
There
was
a
short
Silence
,
and
then
there
appear'd
another
Devil
,
of
about
a
foot
and
a
half
long
.
I
am
(
says
he
)
a
Devil
but
of
a
small
size
,
and
perhaps
one
of
the
least
in
Hell
;
and
yet
the
Door
opens
to
me
as
well
as
to
another
;
for
I
never
come
Empty-handed
.
Why
,
what
have
you
brought
then
?
(
says
the
Intermedler
)
and
came
up
to
him
;
What
have
I
brought
?
(
quoth
he
)
I
have
brought
an
Eternal
Talker
,
and
a
Finical
Flatterer
:
They
are
two
pieces
,
that
were
in
high
Esteem
in
the
Cabinets
of
two
Great
Princes
;
and
I
have
brought
them
for
a
Present
to
Lucifer
.
With
That
,
Lucifer
cast
his
Eye
upon
them
,
and
with
a
Damn'd-Verjuice-face
,
as
if
he
had
bitten
a
Crab
,
You
do
well
(
says
he
)
to
say
ye
had
them
at
Court
;
and
I
think
you
should
do
well
to
carry
them
thither
again
;
for
I
had
as
live
have
their
Room
,
as
their
Company
.
After
him
,
follow'd
another
Dwarf-Devil
,
complaining
that
he
had
been
a
matter
of
six
years
about
so
infamous
a
Rascal
,
that
there
was
no
good
to
be
done
with
him
,
for
the
Bad
as
well
as
the
Better
sort
were
Scandaliz'd
at
his
Conversation
.
A
mighty
Piece
of
business
,
cry'd
the
Governante
.
And
could
you
not
have
gotten
him
a
handsome
Office
,
or
Employment
?
That
would
have
made
him
good
for
something
,
and
you
might
have
done
his
Business
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Babbler
went
whispering
up
and
down
,
and
finding
faults
,
till
at
length
he
came
to
a
huge
bundle
of
sleeping
Devils
in
a
Corn●r
,
that
were
fagotted
up
,
and
all
mouldy
and
full
of
Cobwebs
;
which
he
immediately
gave
notice
of
,
and
they
cut
the
band
to
give
them
Air.
With
much
ado
,
they
waked
them
,
and
askt
what
Devils
they
were
;
what
they
did
there
,
and
why
they
were
not
upon
Duty
.
They
fell
a
Yawning
,
and
said
,
that
they
were
the
Devils
of
Luxury
:
But
since
the
Women
have
taken
a
Phansie
to
prefer
Guinies
and
Iacobusses
,
before
their
Modesty
and
Honour
,
there
has
been
no
need
of
a
Devil
in
the
Case
to
tempt
them
:
for
't
is
but
shewing
them
the
merry
Spankers
,
they
'll
dare
like
Larks
,
and
fall
down
before
ye
,
and
then
ye
may
e'en
do
what
you
will
with
them
,
and
take
them
up
in
a
Purse-net
.
Gold
supplies
all
imperfections
;
it
makes
an
Angel
of
a
Crocodile
;
turns
a
Fool
into
a
Philosopher
;
and
a
Dressing-Box
well
lin'd
,
is
worth
twenty
thousand
Devils
.
So
that
there
is
no
temptation
like
a
Present
:
and
take
them
from
Top
to
Bottom
,
the
whole
Race
of
Woman
is
frail
,
and
one
thred
of
Pearl
will
do
more
with
them
than
a
million
of
fine
stories
.
Just
as
this
Devil
made
an
end
,
we
heard
another
snorting
;
and
't
was
well
he
did
so
,
for
we
had
trod
upon
his
belly
else
.
He
was
laid
hold
of
,
upon
suspicion
that
he
slept
Dog-sleep
,
or
rather
the
sleep
of
a
contented
Cuckold
,
that
would
spoil
no
sport
where
he
made
none
.
I
am
(
says
he
)
the
Nuns
Devil
,
and
for
want
of
other
employment
I
have
been
three
days
asleep
here
as
you
found
me
.
My
Mistresses
are
now
chusing
an
Abbess
,
and
always
when
they
are
at
that
work
,
I
make
Holy-day
:
For
they
are
all
Devils
themselves
then
;
There
is
such
Canvasing
,
Flattering
,
Importuning
,
Cajoling
,
making
of
Parties
;
and
in
a
word
so
general
a
Confusion
,
that
a
Devil
among
them
would
do
more
hurt
than
good
.
Nay
,
the
Ambitious
make
it
a
point
of
Honour
upon
such
an
occasion
,
to
shew
that
they
can
out-wit
the
Devils
.
And
if
ever
Hell
should
be
in
danger
of
a
Peace
,
It
is
my
Advice
,
that
you
presently
call
in
a
Convention
of
Nuns
to
the
Election
of
an
Abbess
;
which
would
most
certainly
reduce
it
to
its
ancient
state
of
Sedition
,
Mutiny
,
and
Confusion
,
and
bring
us
all
in
effect
to
such
a
pass
,
that
we
should
hardly
know
one
another
.
Lucifer
was
very
well
pleas'd
with
the
Advice
,
and
order'd
it
to
be
entred
upon
the
Register
,
as
a
sure
Expedient
to
suppr●ss
any
disorders
that
might
happen
for
the
future
to
the
disturbance
of
his
Government
:
after
which
he
commanded
the
issuing
out
of
a
Summons
to
all
his
Companies
and
Livery-men
,
who
forthwith
appear'd
in
prodigious
Multitudes
;
and
Lucifer
with
a
Hideous
Yell
deliver'd
himself
most
graciously
as
follows
.
The
Decree
of
Lucifer
.
TO
our
Trusty
and
Despairing
Legions
,
and
well-beloved
Subjects
,
lying
under
the
Condemnation
of
Perpetual
Darkness
,
that
liv'd
Pensioners
to
sin
,
and
had
Death
for
their
Pay-master
,
Greeting
.
This
is
to
let
you
understand
,
that
there
are
two
Devils
,
who
pretend
a
claim
to
the
honour
of
our
Lieutenancy
;
but
we
have
absolutely
refus'd
to
gratifie
either
the
One
or
the
Other
,
in
that
point
,
out
of
a
singular
Affection
and
Respect
to
Our
right
Trusty
and
Well-beloved
Cousin
,
a
certain
She-Devil
that
deserves
it
before
all
others
.
At
this
the
whole
Assembly
fell
to
whispering
and
muttering
,
and
staring
one
upon
another
;
till
at
last
Lucifer
observing
it
,
bad
them
never
trouble
themselves
to
guess
who
it
might
be
,
but
fetch
Good
Fortune
to
him
,
known
otherwise
by
the
name
of
Madam
Prosperity
;
who
presently
appear'd
in
the
tail
of
the
Assembly
,
and
with
a
proud
and
disdainful
Air
,
march'd
up
and
planted
her self
before
the
degraded
Seraphim
;
who
lookt
her
wistly
in
the
face
,
and
then
he
went
on
in
the
Tone
he
first
began
.
It
is
our
Will
,
Pleasure
,
and
Command
,
that
next
and
immediately
under
our
proper
Person
,
you
pay
all
Honour
and
Respect
to
the
Lady
Prosperity
,
and
obey
her
,
as
the
most
mighty
and
supreme
Governess
of
these
our
Dominions
.
Which
Titles
and
Qualities
,
we
have
conferr'd
upon
her
,
as
due
to
her
merit
;
for
she
hath
damn'd
more
Souls
than
all
you
together
;
She
it
is
that
makes
men
cast
off
all
fear
of
God
,
and
Love
of
their
Neighbour
.
She
it
is
,
that
makes
men
place
their
Sovereign
good
in
Riches
.
That
Engages
and
Entangles
mens
minds
in
Vanity
;
strikes
them
blind
in
their
Pleasures
;
Loads
them
with
Treasure
,
and
Buries
them
in
sin
.
Where
's
the
Tragedy
that
she
has
not
play'd
her
part
in
't
?
Where
's
the
Stability
and
Wisdom
that
she
has
not
stagger'd
?
Where
's
the
Folly
that
she
has
not
improv'd
and
augmented
?
She
takes
no
Counsel
,
and
fears
no
Punishment
.
She
it
is
that
furnishes
matter
for
Scandal
,
experience
for
Story
,
that
entertains
the
Cruelty
of
Tyrants
,
and
bathes
the
Executioners
in
Innocent
Bloud
.
How
many
Souls
,
that
liv'd
innocent
,
while
they
were
poor
,
have
fallen
into
impiety
and
reprobation
,
so
soon
as
ever
they
came
to
drink
of
the
inchanted
Cup
of
Prosperity
!
Go
to
then
,
be
Obedient
to
Her
,
we
charge
ye
all
,
as
to
Our Self
:
and
understand
,
that
They
that
stand
their
ground
against
Prosperity
are
none
of
your
Quarry
.
Let
them
e'en
alone
;
for
't
is
but
time
lost
to
attempt
them
.
Take
example
from
that
impertinent
Devil
,
that
got
leave
to
tempt
Iob
;
he
persecuted
him
,
begger'd
him
,
cover'd
him
all
over
with
Scabs
and
Vlcers
.
Sot
that
he
was
!
if
he
had
understood
his
business
,
he
would
have
gone
another
way
to
work
,
and
begg'd
leave
,
to
have
multiplyed
Riches
upon
him
;
and
to
have
possest
him
of
Health
and
Pleasures
.
That
's
the
Tryal
;
and
how
many
are
there
that
when
they
thrive
in
the
world
,
turn
their
backs
upon
Heaven
,
and
never
so
much
as
name
their
Creator
;
but
in
Oaths
,
and
then
too
,
without
thinking
on
him
?
Their
Discourse
is
all
of
Iollities
,
Banquets
,
Comedies
,
Purchases
,
and
the
like
.
Whereas
the
poor
man
has
God
perpetually
both
in
his
mouth
and
heart
.
Lord
(
says
he
)
be
mindful
of
me
,
and
have
mercy
upon
me
,
for
all
my
trust
is
in
thee
.
Wherefore
(
says
Lucifer
,
redoubling
his
accursed
clamour
)
let
it
be
Publisht
forthwith
throughout
all
our
Territories
,
that
,
Calamities
,
Troubles
,
and
Persecutions
are
our
mortal
Enemies
:
for
so
we
have
found
them
upon
Experience
:
they
are
the
Dispensations
of
Providence
,
the
Blessings
of
the
Almighty
,
to
fit
Sinners
for
himself
,
and
they
that
suffer
them
are
enrolled
in
the
Militia
of
Heaven
.
Item
;
For
the
better
administration
of
our
Government
,
It
is
our
Will
and
Pleasure
,
and
we
do
strictly
charge
and
command
,
that
our
Devils
give
constant
attendance
in
all
Courts
of
Iudicature
;
and
they
are
hereby
totally
discharged
from
any
further
care
of
Little
petty
Foggers
,
Flatterers
,
and
Envious
Persons
,
for
they
are
so
well
acquainted
with
Hell
Rode
,
that
they
'll
guide
one
another
,
without
the
help
of
a
Devil
to
bring
them
hither
.
Item
;
We
do
Ordain
and
Command
that
no
Devil
presume
for
the
future
to
entertain
any
Confident
,
but
Profit
;
for
That
's
the
Harbinger
that
provides
Vice
the
most
commodious
Quarter
,
even
in
the
straitest
Consciences
.
Item
;
We
do
Ordain
,
as
a
matter
of
great
importance
to
the
conservation
of
our
Empire
,
that
in
what
part
soever
of
our
Dominions
,
the
Devil
of
Money
shall
vouchsafe
to
appear
,
all
other
Devils
there
present
,
shall
rise
,
and
with
a
low
Reverence
▪
present
him
the
Chair
,
in
token
of
their
submission
to
his
Power
and
Authority
.
Item
;
We
do
most
expresly
Charge
and
Command
all
our
Officers
,
as
well
Civil
as
Military
,
to
employ
their
utmost
Diligence
and
Industry
,
for
the
establishing
a
General
Peace
throughout
the
World
.
For
that
's
the
time
for
wickedness
to
thrive
in
,
and
all
sorts
of
vices
to
prosper
and
flourish
;
as
Luxury
,
Gluttony
,
Idleness
,
Lying
,
Slandering
,
Gaming
,
and
Whoring
;
and
in
a
word
,
sin
is
upon
the
Encrease
,
and
Goodness
in
the
Wane
.
Whereas
in
a
state
of
War
,
men
are
upon
the
exercise
of
Valour
and
Virtue
;
calling
often
upon
Heaven
,
in
the
morning
,
for
fear
of
being
Knockt
on
the
Head
after
Dinner
:
and
honest
men
and
actions
are
rewarded
.
Item
;
We
do
from
this
time
forward
discharge
all
our
Officers
and
Agents
whatsoever
,
from
giving
themselves
any
further
trouble
of
tempting
Men
and
Women
to
sins
of
Incontinence
;
for
as
much
as
we
find
upon
Experience
,
that
Adultery
and
Fornication
will
never
be
left
,
till
the
old
Woman
scratches
the
stooll
for
her
backside
.
And
though
there
may
be
several
intervals
of
Repentance
,
and
some
faint
Purposes
of
giving
it
over
:
yet
the
Humour
returns
again
with
the
next
Tyde
of
Bloud
,
and
Concupiscence
is
as
Loyal
a
Subject
to
us
,
as
any
we
have
in
our
Dominions
.
Item
;
In
Consideration
of
the
Exemption
aforesaid
,
by
which
means
several
Devils
are
left
without
present
Employment
;
And
for
as
much
as
there
are
many
Merchants
and
Tradesmen
in
London
,
Paris
,
Madrid
,
Amsterdam
,
and
elsewhere
,
up
and
down
the
world
,
that
are
very
charitably
dispos'd
to
relieve
People
in
want
;
especially
young
Heirs
newly
at
Age
,
and
Spend-Thrifts
,
that
come
to
borrow
money
of
them
;
but
the
times
being
Dead
and
little
money
stirring
,
all
they
can
do
is
to
furnish
them
with
what
the
House
affords
;
and
if
a
hundred
pound
or
two
in
Commodity
will
do
them
any
good
,
't
is
at
their
service
(
they
say
.
)
This
the
Gallant
takes
up
at
an
excessive
Rate
,
to
sell
again
immediately
for
what
he
can
get
;
and
the
Merchant
has
his
friend
to
take
it
off
under-hand
,
at
a
third
part
of
the
Value
(
which
is
his
way
of
helping
men
in
distress
.
)
Now
out
of
a
singular
Respect
●o
the
said
Merchants
and
Tradesmen
,
and
for
their
better
Encouragement
;
as
also
,
to
the
end
that
the
Devils
aforesaid
may
not
run
into
lewd
Courses
,
for
want
of
business
;
We
Will
and
Require
that
a
Legion
of
the
said
Devils
,
shall
from
time
to
time
be
continually
aiding
and
assisting
to
the
said
Merchants
and
Tradesmen
,
in
the
Quality
of
Factors
,
to
be
reliev'd
monthly
by
a
fresh
Legion
,
or
oftner
if
occasion
shall
require
.
Item
;
We
Will
and
Command
that
all
our
Devils
,
of
what
Degree
,
or
Quality
soever
,
do
henceforth
Entertain
a
strict
Amity
and
Correspondence
with
Our
Trusty
,
and
well
belov'd
,
the
Usurers
,
the
Revengeful
,
the
Envious
,
and
all
Pretenders
to
great
Places
,
and
Dignities
:
And
above
all
Others
,
with
the
Hypocrites
,
who
are
the
most
Powerful
Impostors
in
Nature
,
and
so
Excellently
skill'd
in
their
Trade
,
that
they
steal
away
People's
Hearts
and
Souls
at
the
Eyes
,
and
Ears
,
insensibly
,
and
draw
to
themselves
Adoration
,
and
Reward
.
Item
;
We
do
further
Order
,
and
Command
,
that
all
Care
possible
be
taken
for
the
maintaining
of
Blabs
,
Informers
,
Incendiaries
,
and
Parasites
in
all
Courts
,
and
Palaces
,
for
thence
comes
Our
Harvest
.
Item
;
That
the
Bablers
,
Tale-Bearers
,
Make-Bates
and
Instruments
of
Divorces
,
and
Quarrels
,
be
no
longer
call'd
Fannes
,
but
Bellows
;
in
regard
that
they
draw
,
and
Inflame
,
without
giving
any
Allay
,
or
Refreshment
.
Item
;
That
the
Intermedlers
be
hereafter
call'd
,
and
Reputed
the
Devils
Body-Lice
,
because
they
fetch
Bloud
of
those
,
that
feed
,
and
Nourish
them
.
Lucifer
then
casting
a
Soure
Look
over
his
Shoulder
,
and
spying
the
Governante
:
I
'm
of
his
Mind
(
quoth
he
)
that
said
,
Let
God
dispose
of
the
Doüegnas
(
or
Governantes
)
as
he
pleases
:
for
I
'm
in
no
little
Trouble
,
how
to
dispose
of
these
Confounded
Carrions
.
Whereupon
,
the
Damn'd
cry'd
out
with
one
Voice
:
Oh!
Lucifer
,
let
it
never
be
said
,
that
it
rain'd
Doüegnas
in
thy
Dominions
.
Are
we
not
miserable
enough
without
this
new
Plague
of
being
baited
by
Haggs
?
Ah!
Cursed
Lucifer
;
(
cry'd
every
one
to
himself
)
stow
them
any
where
,
so
they
come
not
near
me
.
And
with
that
,
they
all
clapt
their
Tayls
between
their
Legs
,
and
drew
in
their
Horns
,
for
fear
of
this
new
Torment
.
Lucifer
,
finding
how
the
Dread
of
the
old
Women
wrought
upon
the
Devils
,
contented
himself
,
at
the
present
,
to
let
it
pass
only
,
in
Terrorem
;
but
withal
,
he
swore
,
by
the
honour
of
his
Imperial
Crown
,
and
as
he
hop'd
to
be
sav'd
;
that
what
Devil
,
Devil
s
Damme
,
or
Reprobate
soever
,
should
in
time
to
come
be
found
wanting
to
his
Duty
;
and
in
the
least
Degree
disobedient
to
his
Laws
,
and
Ordinances
:
All
,
and
every
the
said
Devil
,
or
Devils
;
their
Dams
,
and
Reprobates
so
offending
,
should
be
deliver'd
up
to
the
Torture
of
the
Doüegna
;
and
ty'd
Muzzle
to
Muzzle
;
so
to
remain
in
Secula
Seculorum
,
without
Relief
or
Appeal
;
or
any
Law
,
Statute
,
or
Vsage
to
the
Contrary
Notwithstanding
.
But
in
the
Mean
time
,
Cast
them
into
that
Dry
Ditch
,
(
says
he
)
that
they
may
be
ready
for
use
upon
any
Occasion
.
Immediately
,
upon
the
Pronouncing
of
this
Solemn
Decree
,
Lucifer
retir'd
to
his
Cell
;
The
Weather
clear'd
up
;
and
the
Company
disperst
in
a
fright
,
at
so
horrible
a
Menace
,
and
so
went
about
their
Business
:
When
a
Voice
was
heard
out
of
the
Clouds
,
as
the
Voice
of
an
Angel
,
saying
,
He
that
rightly
comprehends
the
Morality
of
this
Discourse
,
shall
never
repent
the
Reading
of
it
.
THE
END
.