I’ve a pretty good Footing, my Friends, in the Nation; }
And I’d have you go on with each learn’d Dissertation. }
For our firmest Adherents we commonly call
The Man who believes there’s no Devil at all;
And, as you so clearly convince your attendants 140
We’re nothing, and all our good Company send hence,
Your learned Opinion, I find as I read it,
Advances my Gain, whilst it shatters my Credit,
As Bankrupts who wilfully plunge into Shame,
To gain in their purse what they lose in their Fame.