Hudibras . the rest. 2 Luther, in liis book de Miss& private, says he was persuaded topreach against the mass by reasons suggested to him by the devil, in adisputation. Melchior Adamus says the devil appeared to Luther inhis own garden, in the shape of a black boar. And the Colloquia men-salia relate, that when Luther was in his chamber, in the castle atWurtsburgh, tlie devil cracked some nuts which he had in a box uponthe bed-post, tumbled empty barrels down stairs, &c. • In the beginning of the civil war in Flanders, the common peopleat Antwerp broke open the cathedral church, and destroyed
Hudibras . the rest. 2 Luther, in liis book de Miss& private, says he was persuaded topreach against the mass by reasons suggested to him by the devil, in adisputation. Melchior Adamus says the devil appeared to Luther inhis own garden, in the shape of a black boar. And the Colloquia men-salia relate, that when Luther was in his chamber, in the castle atWurtsburgh, tlie devil cracked some nuts which he had in a box uponthe bed-post, tumbled empty barrels down stairs, &c. • In the beginning of the civil war in Flanders, the common peopleat Antwerp broke open the cathedral church, and destroyed theornaments. Strada, in his book de Bcllo Bclgico, says, that several devils were seen to assist them; without whose aid it would have been impossible, in so short a time, to have done so much mis- chief. * Mascon is a town in Burgundy, where an imclcan devil, as he wascalled, played his pranks in the house of Mr. Ferreand, a reformedminister, ann. 1G12. Sometimes he sang psalms; at others bawdy. ^^; sculpT CANTO III.] HUDIBRAS. 11 Appear in divers shapes to Kelly, ^ And speak i th nun of Loudons belly ? ^ Meet with the parlaments committee, 165 At Woodstock, on a persnal treaty ? ^ verses. Mr. Perreand published a circumstantial account of him inFrench, which, at the request of Mr. Boyle, who had heard the matterattested by Perreand himself, was translated into English by Dr. Peterde Moulin. The poet calls them saints, because they were of the Ge-neva persuasion. See notes to lines 236-7-8. It may be proper to observe, that thepersons here instanced had made more than ordinary pretensions tosanctity, or bore some near relation to religion. On this circumstanceRalpho founds his argument for the lawfulness of the practice, thatsaints may converse with the devil. Dr. Casaubon informs us that Dee,who was associated with Kelly, employed himself in prayer and otheracts of devotion, before he entered upon his conversation with spirits. Oratione finite, et morS.
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