BELFEGOR. Sutan. "But, Pug, since you do burn with such desire HE The Devil is an Ass. LONDON: MESSRS. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO MDCCCXXXVII. ADVERTISEMENT. The Author of the following trifle, as the reader will at once perceive, has taken the idea of his story, (if story it may be called) from the Novella di Belfegor, of the famous Nicolas Macchiavelli. BELFEGOR. SEARCHING of late the legends old Puffed out her candle unawares, Which God's bright angel in a fit St. Mildred. "Shee was so diligently garded with God's angell attending upon her, that when the divell (finding her at praiers) had put out the candall that was before her, the angell forthwith lighted it unto her again."—W. Lambard's Perambulation through Kent. 1570. B |