But some may object and say. What, doth the devil walk
in Paul's then ? Why not, sir, as well as a sergeant, or a
ruffian, or a murderer ? May not the devil, I pray you,
walk in Paul's ? as well as the horse * go a' top of Paul's ?
for I am sure I was not far from his keeper. Pooh, I
doubt, where there is no doubt ; for there is no true critic
indeed that will carp at the devil

Now the hour posted onward to accomplish the eflfects
of my desire, to gorge every vice full of poison, that the
soul might burst at the last, and vomit out herself upon
blue cakes of brimstone. When returning home for the
purpose, in my captain's apparel of buff and velvet, I
struck mine hostess into admiration at my proper ^ ap-
pearance, for my polt-foot ^ was helped out with bumbast ;
a property which many worldlings use whose toes are
dead and rotten, and therefore so stuff out their shoes
like the comers of woolpacks.
^ Banks's curtal, Morocco, who is mentioned by almost every play-
wright of the time. Mr. Halliwell-Pbillipps, in his Memoranda on Lovers
Labour Lost^ has collected all available information about the marvel-
lous horse.
> Handsome.
» Club-foot.
