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musical instruments. The Devil is so slovenly, so melancholick, and so much an enemy to things neat, chearful, and clear, that when Christ entered into the region of Genezaret, St. Matthew recounteth how certain Devils met him in dead carcases which they had caught out of their graves, crying and saying, Jesus, thou son of David, what hast thou to do with us, that thou art come before hand to torment us? we pray thee, that if thou be to drive us out of this place where we are, thou wilt let us enter into that herd of swine which is yonder. For which reason the holy Scripture termeth them unclean Spirits.
Huarte, Eng. transl. P. 92. 94.
211. Valentine Gretrakes.
It is Henry More[1] who tells us of his civet-like odour of complection. He is
- ↑ See vol. I, p. 144, where I had supposed it was Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
