The last seduced and least deformed of hell;

Half-white, and shuffled in the crowd I fell,

Desirous to repent and loath to sin,

Awkward in mischief, piteous of mankind;

My name is Philidel, my lot in air,

Where, next beneath the moon, and nearest heaven,

I soar, I have a glimpse to be received.

Vol. VIII. p. 135.

[116] Henry the Eighth's passion for Anna Bullen led the way to the Reformation.

[117] The marriage of the clergy, licensed by the Reformation.