Cardinal Carafa seems to have been the author of the above memorable
dictum. Dr. John Prideaux thus alludes to the circumstance:
"Cardinalis (ut ferunt) quidam [Greek: meta polles phantasias] Lutetiam
aliquando ingrediens, cum instant importunius turbae ut benedictionem
impertiret: _Quandoquidem_ (inquit) _hic populus vult decipi,
decipiatur in nomine Diaboli_."--_Lectiones Novem_, p. 54.: Oxoniae,
1625, 4to.