The _Devil_ Refus’d to _Marry_.
A Certain Devil had the hap to live for some time in a State of Wedlock,
with a Spiteful, Vexatious Gipsy, that in Truth was too hard for him.
She Dy’d at last of the Pip, and the Breath was no sooner out of her
Body, but he fell to Blessing the Stars for his Deliverance; and so
bound himself by a Desperate Vow, that he would never Marry again. It
fell out some time after, that a Poor Man was Possess’d with this very
Devil, and that when an _Exorcist_ had try’d all the ways of Charm,
Prayer and Menace, to Remove him, and found him Proof against all manner
of _Exorcisms_, he Bawl’d it out, once for all, _Either come forth, or
Marry_. The Devil immediately cry’d out for Mercy, _I go Father_, says
he; _Any Hell but that of a Second Wife_.
The MORAL.
_Take this Droll by the Right Handle, and it gives to understand, that
some Women may as well fright the Devil out of a Man, as others Conjure
him up into one._