CLXIV.

_Deus, post expulsum daemonem mutum, maledicis Judaeis os obturat._ Luc.

xi. 14.

Una pene opera duplicem tibi daemona frangis:

Iste quidem daemon mutus; at ille loquax.

Scilicet in laudes, quae non tibi laurea surgit?

Non magis hic loquitur, quam tacet ille tuas.

_Upon the dumbe devill cast out, and the slanderous Jewes put to

silence._

Two devills at one blow Thou hast laid flat;

A speaking devill this, a dumbe one that.

Was't Thy full victorie's fairer increase,

That th' one spake, or that th' other held his peace? CR.

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