Say that the devil never fails[96]
To eat a tiger, stuff’d with nails;
With claws and head and hair on, munching
The savage creature at a luncheon!
That one old woman, pain distracted,
This part of satan over acted;
In gulping tractors down, for med’cines,[97]
With such effect, that faith she’s dead since.
Then make it plain, by quoting Greek,
That this old hag, of whom we speak,