Religion
Book IV, 29: On dispossessing
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV
Religion
We read, A broyled Fishes heart will scare
A frighted Devil from a troubled brest:
We read againe, By Fasting, and by Prayre
The fierce Demoniack's only dispossest:
What this affirmes, that flatly does deny;
With reverence to the Text, The t'one's a Lye.
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