But the Devil, as he is God of the World, has one particular Advantage, and that is, that when he has Work to do he very seldom wants Instruments; with this Circumstance also, that the Degeneracy of human Nature supplies him; as the late King of _France_ said of himself, when they told him what a Calamity was like to befal his Kingdom by the Famine: _Well_, says the King, then I shall not want Soldiers; _and it was so_, want of Bread supplied his Army with Recruits; so want of Grace supplied the _Devil_ with Reprobates for his Work. Another Reason why, I think, the _Devil_ has made more Bargains of that Kind we speak of, in this Age, is, because he seems to have laid by his Cloven-Foot; all his old Emissaries, the Tools of his Trade, the Engineers which he employ'd in his Mines, such as Witches, Warlocks, Magicians, Conjurers, Astrologers, and all the hellish Train or Rabble of human _Devils_, who did his Drudgery in former Days, seem to be out of Work: I shall give you a fuller Enumeration of them in the next Chapter. These, I say, seem to be laid aside; not that his Work is abated, or that his Business with Mankind, for their Delusion and Destruction is not the same, or perhaps more than ever; but the _Devil_ seems to have chang'd Hands; the Temper and Genius of Mankind is alter'd, and they are not to be taken by Fright and Horror, as they were then: The Figures of those Creatures was always dismal and horrible, and that is it which I mean by the _Cloven-Foot_; but now Wit, Beauty and gay Things, are the Sum of his Craft, he manages by the Soft and the Smooth, the Fair and the Artful, the Kind and the Cunning, not by the Frightful and Terrible, the Ugly and the Odious. When the _Devil_ for weighty Dispatches, Wanted Messengers cunning and bold, He pass'd by the beautiful Faces, And pick'd out the _Ugly_ and _Old_. Of these he made _Warlocks_ and _Witches_, To run of his Errands by Night, Till the over wrought Hag-ridden Wretches, Were as fit as the _Devil_, to fright. But whoever has been his Adviser, As his Kingdom encreases in Growth; He now takes his Measures much wiser, And Trafficks with Beauty and Youth. Disguis'd in the Wanton and Witty, He haunts both the Church and the Court, And sometimes he visits the City, Where all the best Christians resort. Thus dress'd up in full Masquerade, He the bolder can range up and down, For he better can drive on his Trade, In any one's Name than his own. CHAP. IX. _Of the Tools the_ Devil _works with,_ (viz.) _Witches, Wizards or Warlocks, Conjurers, Magicians, Divines, Astrologers, Interpreters of Dreams, Tellers of Fortunes; and above all the rest, his particular modern Privy-Counsellors call'd Wits and Fools._