Of Cain and his brother Abel.

He saw an apothecary on a white horse,

Ride by on his avocations.

The Devil he smiled, for it put him in mind

Of Death in the Revelations.

He stept into a rich bookseller’s shop,

Said he, “We are both of one college,

For I myself sat, like a cormorant,[112] once,

Hard by the tree of knowledge.”

He saw school-boys acting prayers at morn,