Anto. With all my heart: Pray find her if you can;
’Twas my misfortune doubled to light here.
Capt. It might have prov’d so:
search the House.
[Exit Watch.
I’le tell your Lordship what I know of her.
Walking my Round one Night, who should I meet,
But (as I thought) two Devils, by their shapes;
An Old one, and a Young one, so they seem’d:
At first the sight amaz’d me, but at last
My Reason telling me, if they were Spirits,
The mischief they intended they might do,
Though I should run away: I bid my Guard
Stand, whilst my self advanc’d near these shapes,
Which as I did, the little Devil fled, th’ other seem’d
To turn it’s Eyes to fire, and glare upon me;
I still advanc’d, Arm’d with my former thoughts,
And as I nearer came, the fire grew duller,
Yet still it stood, for truly it could not run,
Proving, when I laid hold on’t, this Old Woman,
Cas’d in a Leopard’s skin; the fiery Eyes
Prov’d but two Lobster-shells: So she confessing,
That for a Living she did use these Cheats,
Helping poor People to their stolen Goods,
In Devils shapes to countenance the Trade.
And that the other was a little Boy,
Train’d up as her Familiar, whom she producing,
I only threaten’d them, and let them go.
Anto. A subtle Cheat it was, and very likely,
And you deserv’d Reward that did detect it.
Jasp. A Halter it should be, were I to give it.
[Aside.
Enter the Watch with one of the Devils Remarkable Habits, and a Viol.
1. Watch. We’ve search’d sufficiently, but all we find
Is a poor Devils skin, and a base Viol.
Capt. I, this is like the other, I’m glad ’twas found,
’Twill prove the story true I told your Lordship.