On this, with lofty looks, our Clerk began
His grave rebuke, as he assumed the man. -
“There is no devil,” said the hopeful youth,
“Nor prince of devils: that I know for truth.
Have I not told you how my books describe
The arts of priests, and all the canting tribe?
Your Bible mentions Egypt, where it seems
Was Joseph found when Pharoah dream’d his dreams:
Now in that place, in some bewilder’d head,
(The learned write) religious dreams were bred;