This belike is the meaning of those Texts, _that God is good and Gracious, and slow to anger, and does not willingly afflict the Children of Men_! From expounding the Bible he goes to the _Common Prayer_. And as _Carlos_ interprets the _Office_ of _Matrimony_, For Better, for Worse, is _for Virgin for Whore_;[136] And that the Reference might not be mistaken, the Poet is careful to put the Words in _Italick_, and great Letters. And by the way, He falls under the _Penalty_ of the Statute for Depraving the _Common Prayer_.[137] _Sancho_ upon reading a Letter which he did not like, cries _Damn it, it must be all Orthodox_.[138] _Damn_ and _Orthodox_ clapt together, make a lively Rant, because it looks like Cursing the _Creeds_. The most extraordinary passage is behind; _Sancho_ was unhappily Married: _Carlos tells him, For your Comfort, Marriage they say is Holy. Sancho_ replies: _Ay, and so is Martyrdom as they say, but both of them are good for just nothing, but to make an end of a Mans Life_.[139] I shall make no Reflections upon This: There needs no Reading upon a Monster: 'Tis shown enough by its own Deformity. _Love for Love_ has a Strain like this, and therefore I shall put them together: _Scandal_ solicits Mrs. _Foresight_; She threatens to tell her Husband. He replys, _He will die a Martyr rather then disclaim his Passion_.[140] Here we have Adultery dignified with the stile of Martyrdom: As if 'twas as Honourable to perish in Defence of Whoring, as to dye for the Faith of Christianity. But these _Martyrs_ will be a great while in burning, And therefore let no body strive to grace the Adventure, or encrease the Number. And now I am in this _Play_ the Reader shall have more. _Jeremy_ who was bred at the University, calls the Natural Inclinations to Eating and Drinking, _Whoreson Appetites_. This is strange Language! The _Manicheans_ who made Creation the work of the Devil, could scarcely have been thus Coarse.[141] But the _Poet_ was _Jeremy's_ Tutor, and so that Mystery is at an end. Sr. _Samson_ carries on the Expostulation, rails at the Structure of Human Bodies, and says,[142] _Nature has been Provident only to Bears, and Spiders_; This is the Authors Paraphrase on the 139 _Psalm_; And thus he gives God thanks for the Advantage of his Being! The _Play_ advances from one wickedness to another, from the _Works_ of God, to the Abuse of his Word. Foresight _confesses 'tis Natural for Men to mistake_.[143] Scandal _replies, You say true, Man will err, meer Man will err----but you are something more----There have been wise Men; but they were such as you----Men who consulted the Stars, and, were observers of Omens_----Solomon _was wise but how?----by his judgment in Astrology._ 'Tis very well! _Solomon_ and _Foresight_ had their Understandings qualified alike. And pray what was _Foresight_? Why an _Illiterate Fellow_. _A pretender to Dreams, Astrology, Palmistry_ &c. This