that old King of the Tinkers! . . The passage is curious in another respect, . . it may have suggested the name of Pandæmonium to Milton, who was a friend of Henry More's.
On Ida hill there stands a Castle strong,
They that it built call it Pantheothen;
Hither resort a rascal rabble throng
Of miscreant wights; but if that wiser men
May name that fort, Pandemoniothen
They would it cleep. It is the strongest delusion
That ever Dæmon wrought, the safest pen
That ere held silly sheep for their confusion.
Ill life and want of love, hence springs each false conclusion.
That rabble rout that in this Castle won
Is Irefull-Ignorance, Unseemly-Zeal,
Strong-self-conceit, Rotten Religion,
Contentious-reproach-gainst-Michael-
If-he-of-Moses'-body-aught-reveal-
Which-their-dull-skonses-cannot-easily-reach.
Love-of-the-carkass, an-inept-appeal-
T'-uncertain-papers, a-false-formal-fetch
Of-feigned-sighs. Contempt-of-poor-and-sinful-wretch.
Two more stanzas follow full of these
