The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…

¹3. The Sermons differs as well as the Texts. 1. The Harlots dixit, verse 16. is thus amplified: Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of Secrecies is pleasant. Tullius, nor Tertullus, nor Hermes, the speaker in the Parliament of the Heathen gods, never moved so eloquent a tongue: she preaches (according to the palate of her audience) Placentia; nay, it is Placenta, a sweet Cake; whose flour is Sugar, and the humour that tempers it, Honey, sweet, pleasant. She cannot want auditors for such a Sermon: for as it is in Fairs, the Peddler, and the Ballad-monger have more throng, then the rich ⟨p. 3⟩Merchant: Vanity hath as many customers as she can turn to, when Verity hath but a cold market. 2. Solomons Sermon is opposed to it with a But: ²But he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her gh•sts are in the depth of Hell. A cross blow, that disarms the Devils Fencer: a flat conviction or Non-plus, given to the arguments of sin: a little Colliquintida, put into the swe•t-pot: that, as I have observed in some beguiling Pictures; look on it one way, and it presents to you a beautiful Damosel: go on the adverse side, and behold, it is a Devil, or some misshapen Stigmatic. Sin shows you a fair Picture: Stolen waters are sweet, &c. Suave & delicio sum; Pleasure and delight. Solomon takes you on the other side, and shows you the ugly visages of Death and Hell, the dead are there, &c. If Sin open her Shop of delicacies, Solomon shows the Trap-door and the Vault: if she boast her Olives, he points to the Prickles: if she discovers the green and gay flowers of delice, he cries to the Ingredients, Latet anguis in herba, the Serpent lurks there: Illa movet, iste monet; she charms, and he breaks her spells: as curious and proud as her House is, Solomon is bold to write, Lord have mercy on us, on the doors, and to tell us, the plague is there; Stolen waters are sweet, &c. But the dead are there, &c.

¹3. The Sermons differs as well as the Texts. 1. The Harlots dixit, verse 16. is thus amplified: Stollen waters are sweet, and the bread of Secrecies is pleasant. Tullius, nor Tertullus, nor Hermes, the speaker in the Parliament of the Heathen gods, neuer moued so eloquent a tongue: shee preaches (according to the palate of her audience) Placentia; nay, it is Placenta, a sweet Cake; whose floure is Sugar, and the humour that tempers it, Honey, sweet, pleasant. Shee cannot want auditours for such a Sermon: for as it is in Faires, the Pedler, and the Ballat-monger haue more throng, then the rich