Chapter 88

“_Pug._ Why any: Fraud, Or Covetousness, or lady Vanity, Or old Iniquity, _I’ll call him hither_.”

“The words in italics should probably be given to the master-devil, Satan.”—Whalley’s note.

That is, against all probability, and with a (for Jonson) impossible violation of character. The words plainly belong to Pug, and mark at once his simpleness and his impatience.

_Ib._ sc. 4. Fitz-dottrel’s soliloquy.

Compare this exquisite piece of sense, satire, and sound philosophy in 1616 with Sir M. Hale’s speech from the bench in a trial of a witch many years afterwards.