Wizards and Jesuits differ but in name, Both demon's envoys, and their trade the same; Weak wills they lead, and vapour'd minds command, And play the game into each others' hand; Like spiritual jugglers at the cup and ball, Rising by foolish maids, that long to fall. Some into love they damn, and some they pray, For greensick minds are caught a different way; To the same end, tho' several paths, they run, Priests to undo and maids to be undone; Some blacker charms, some whiter spells cajole, As some lick wall and some devour a coal. Here ladies, strong in vapours, see men's faces Imprinted in the conjurer's dazzling glasses, There, when, in spring time, the too praying priest, Toasts, and does something better,--to the best A spouse is promised on next Baptist's[F] feast. First some young contrite rake's enjoined to marry, Lest--madam's forc'd to squeak for't--or, miscarry: In June, the lass does to the fields repair, Where good sir Domine just took the air. When, O strange wonder! near a plaintain root, She finds a coal--and so a spouse to boot. She longs to dream and to secure the sport That very day the youth design'd--must court, He does--she struck with rapture and delight. Bespeaks her fancy--strongly--dreams at night. The yielding fair, the ravish'd youth obtains, A maid she passes--so his child's free gains, He has the pleasure, yet is sav'd the pains. Thus when priest's wench--to cure the growing evil Poor St. John Baptist must forerun the devil. But if the ladies fall, at fall of leaf, Or in the winter--still there's fresh relief; Let her lace close four months, and if she can, St. Agnes[G] heals the breach and brings the man. Thus a lewd priest to vapour'd virgins cants, And into pimps reverts his vestal saints. O! dire effects of mask'd impiety! And shall they, Christian muse! have aids from thee; Wilt thou, like witty heathens, lewdly given, To a Gehenna metamorphose Heaven? Wilt thou?--O no--forbid th' unhallow'd song, Such profanations to Rome's bard belong. Let one, who gods and goddesses adores, Paint them like rakes and bullies, bawds, and whores.