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.