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present imagination, had served him, and 
been his cook, who was dead and buried 
some days before this apparition. ‘This 
fellow was as well mounted as the rest, 
and led an empty or spare horse by the 
bridle. 
‘¢ The centurion, being a man of un- 
daunted spirit, went up close to him, and 
demanded what he was; and whether he 
were the same cook who had lately 
served him, and whom he had seen 
coftined, and laid in the earth? Who an- 
swered him again, that, without any 
doubt or scruple, he was the self-same 
man. Lis master then asked him, what 
gentlemen, or rather noblemen, as ap- 
peared by their habit, were those that 
rid before; and to what. purpose he led 
that empty horse in his hand? To ‘all 
which he replied in order: that those 
horsemen were men of note and quality, 
naming to him divers whom he knew were 
deceased ; and that they were now upon 
a voyage to the Holy Land, whither he 
himself was likewise bound ; and that the 
spare horse was provided on purpose to 
do him service, if itso pleased him, and 
that he had any desire to see Jerusalem. 
The centurion made answer, that with 
great willingness he should find in his 
heart to see that city, and visit the holy 
sepulchre, whither, if means and leisure 
had favoured his purpose, he long since 
intended a pilgrimage. The other told 
him, now was the tame, his horse ready, 
no necessaries wanting, and he could not 
go in better company. 
*¢ At these words the bold centurion 
leapt into the empty saddle, and was 
presently hurried away from the sight of 
his servants in the twinkling of an ey@. 
“The next evening, at the eae ives 
and in the same place, |he was found by 
iis servants and trievds, who were there 
assembled, seeking and enquiring after 
him. To them he related his journey, 
and all he had seen in the holy city, de- 
scribing punctually every monument and 
place of remark ; which agreed with the 
relations of such travellers and pilgrims 
as had been there, and had brought certi- 
ficate and assured testimony from 
thence. He showed unto them likewise 
akerchief, which that cook his servant, or 
rather devil im his likeness, had given him, 
stained witn blood; but told him, if at 
any time it were foul or dirty he should 
cast it into the fire, for that was the ny 
way to make it elean.” 
The fifth book, entitled Haniel, or the 
Vertues; treats of the consonance, or 
Scarce Tracts, &e. 
Boh 
sympathy, between the angelic hierarchy 
and the planetary system, 
The sixth book 1s named Raphael, 
the Powers; and describes the fall of re 
cifer. Whe war of these angels differs 
from that of Milton’s. Our poet says; 
> Shall I now tell 
The weapons, engines, and artillery, 
Used in this great angelomachy ? 
No lances,swords,nor bombards, had they theng 
Or other weap absiey in use with men 3 
None of the least material substance made: 
Spirits by such give no offense or aid. 
Only spiritual arms to them were lent, 
And these were called affection and consent, 
Therefore this dreadful battle fought we 
find, 
By the two motions of the will and mind: 
Now both of these in Lucifer the devii, 
And his cemplies, immoderate were, and 
evil, 
that 
reign’d, 
And his good spirits, meekly were maintain’d. 
These in Michael the arch-angel 
The description of hell is quite as unlike 
that in the Paradise Lost: 
In hell is grief, pain, anguish, and annoy, 
All-threatening death, yet nothing can 
destroy. 
There’s ejulation, clamor, weeping, wailing, 
Cries, yells, howls, gnashes, curses never 
failing ; 
Sighs and suspires, woe and unpitied moans, 
Thirst, hunger, want, with lacerating 
groans : 
Of fire or light no comfortable beams, 
Heat not to be endur’d, cold in extreams : 
Torments in every artyre, nerve, and veing 
In every joint insufferable pain: 
In head, breast, stemach, and in all the 
senses, 
Each torture suiting to the foul offenses, 
But with more terror than the heart can 
V think, 
The sight with darkcness, and the smell with 
stink ; 
The taste with gall in bitterness extreme, 
The hearing with their curses that blase 
pheme ; 
The touch with snakes and toads crawling 
about them, 
Affl'cted both within them and without them. 
The seventh book, called Kamael, 
the Piincipates; imitates some cola 
of Dante about the rebel angels. 
. The eighth book, Michael ; treats of 
accel incubi, alastors, and j In gene- 
ral of *« Satan’s wiles and feats presti« 
gious.” - 
Now of those spirits whom Succube we call, 
I read what in Sicilia did befall, 
Rogero reigning there, a young man much 
Practis’d in swimming, for his skill was such 
That 
