An Old _Woman_ and the _Devil_.
’Tis a Common Practice, when People draw Mischiefs upon their Own Heads,
to cry, _the Devil’s in’t_, and _the Devil’s in’t_. Now the _Devil_
happen’d to spy an _Old Woman_ upon on Apple-Tree. Look ye (says he)
You shall see that _Beldam_ Catch a Fall there by and by, and Break her
Bones, and then say ’twas all long of me. Pray Good People will you bear
me Witness, that I was none of her Adviser. The _Woman_ got a Tumble, as
the _Devil_ said she would, and there was she at it. _The Devil Ought
her a Shame, and it was the Devil that put her upon’t_: But the _Devil_
Clear’d himself by sufficient Evidence that he had no Hand in’t at all.