is the _Poets_ account of _Solomon's_ Supernatural Knowledge![144] Thus the wisest Prince is dwindled into a Gypsie! And the Glorious Miracle resolved into Dotage, and Figure-flinging! _Scandal_ continues his Banter, and says, the _wise Men of the East owed their Instruction to a Star; which is rightly observ'd by_ Gregory _the Great in favour of Astrology_. This was the Star which shone at our Saviour's Birth. Now who could imagine by the Levity of the occasion, that the Author thought it any better than an _Ignis Fatuus_, or _Sydrophel's_ Kite in _Hudibras_? Sr. _Sampson_ and the fine _Angelica_, after some lewd raillery continue the Allegory, and drive it up into Profaness. For this reason the Citation must be imperfect. _Sr._ Samps. Sampson'_s a very good Name for----your_ Sampsons _were strong Dogs from the Beginning_.[145] Angel. _Have a care----If you remember the strongest_ Sampson _of your Name, pull'd an old House over his Head at last_. Here you have the Sacred History burlesqu'd, and _Sampson_ once more brought into the House of _Dagon_, to make sport for the _Philistines_! To draw towards an end of this _Play. Tattle_ would have carried off _Valentine_'s Mistress. This later, expresses his Resentment in a most Divine manner! Tattle _I thank you, you would have interposed between me and Heaven, but Providence has laid Purgatory in your way_.[146] Thus Heaven is debas'd into an Amour, and Providence brought in to direct the Paultry concerns of the _Stage! Angelica_ concludes much in the same strain: _Men are generally Hypocrites And Infidels, they pretend to Worship, but have neither Zeal, nor Faith; How few like_ Valentine _would persevere unto Martyrdom? &c._[147] Here you have the Language of the _Scriptures_, and the most solemn Instances of Religion, prostituted to Courtship and Romance! Here you have a Mistress made God Almighty, Ador'd with Zeal and Faith, and Worship'd up to Martyrdom! This if 'twere only for the Modesty, is strange stuff for a Lady to say of her self. And had it not been for the profane Allusion, would have been cold enough in all Conscience. The _Provok'd Wife_ furnishes the Audience with a Drunken Atheistical Catch: 'Tis true this Song is afterwards said to be _Full of Sin and Impudence_.[148] But why then was it made? This Confession is a miserable _Salvo_; And the Antidote is much weaker than the Poyson: 'Tis just as if a Man should set a House in a Flame, and think to make amends by crying _Fire_ in the Streets. In the last _Act Rasor_ makes his Discovery of the Plot against _Belinda_ in _Scripture_ phrase. I'le give it the _Reader_ in the Authors Dialogue. Belind. _I must know who put you upon all this Mischief._[149] Rasor. _Sathan And his Equipage. Woman tempted me, Lust weaken'd,----And so the Devil overcame me: As fell_ Adam _so fell I_. Belind. _Then pray Mr._ Adam _will you make us acquainted with your_ Eve?