The next Day my Friend came to me, and talking of it in Confidence to me, I am afraid, _says he_, I am going to marry a She _Devil_, and so told me the Story; I took no Notice to him, but finding out his Mistress, and taking proper Measures, with some of my particular Skill, I soon found out that it was really so, that she was a mere _Apparition_; and had it not been for that accidental Disorder of her Passions, which discover'd her Inside, she might indeed have cheated any Man, for she was a lovely Devil as ever was seen; she talk'd like an Angel, sung like a Syren, did every thing, and said every thing that was taking and charming: But what then? it was all Apparition, for she was a mere _Devil_. It is true, my Friend marry'd her, and tho' she was a _Devil_ without doubt, yet either she behav'd so well, or he was so good, I never could hear him find Fault with her. These are particular Instances; but alas! I could run you a Length beyond all those Examples, and give you such a List of Devils among the gay Things of the Town, that would fright you to think of; and you would presently conclude, with me, that all the perfect Beauties are Devils, mere Apparitions; but Time and Paper fails, so we must only leave the Men the Caution, let them venture at their Peril. I return to the Subject. We have a great many charming _Apparitions_ of like kind go daily about the World in compleat Masquerade, and, tho' we must not say so, they are in themselves mere _Devils_, wicked dangerous murthering Devils, that kill various Ways, some, Basilisk-like, with their Eyes; some Syren-like, with their Tongues; all _Murtherers_, even from the _Beginning_: It is true, 'tis pity these pretty _Apparitions_ should be Devils, and be so mischievous as they are; but since it is so, I can do no less than to advertise you of it, that you may shun the Devil in whatever Shape you meet with him. Again, there are some half Devils, they say, like the _Sagittarii_, half Man, half Horse, or rather like the _Satyr_, who, _they say_, is half Devil, half Man; or, like my Lord Bishop, who, _they say_, was half-headed; whether they mean half-witted or no, I do not find Authors agreed about it: But if they had voted him such, it had been as kind a thing as any they cou'd say of him, because it would have clear'd him from the Scandal of being a Devil, or half a Devil, for we don't find the Devil makes any Alliance with F----ls. Then as to merry Devils, there's my Master _G------_, he may indeed have the Devil in him, but it must be said, to the Credit of Possession in general, that Satan would have scorn'd to have entred into a Soul so narrow that there was not room to hold him, or to take up with so discording a Creature, so abject, so scoundrel, as never made a Figure among Mankind greater than that of a Thief, a _Moroder_, moulded up into Quality, and a Raparee dress'd up _a-la-Masque_, with a _Robe_ and a _Coronet_.