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6 He went into a rich Booksellers shop Quoth he we are both of one College For I sat myself like a Cormorant once Hard by the tree of Knowledge
7 He saw a Cottage with a double coach house A Cottage of gentility And the devil grinn'd for his lasting vise Is Pride that apes Humility
8 As he walk'd through Cold bath fields he saw A solitary cell And the Devil was pleas'd for it gave him a For improving the Prisins in Hell
9 A pig came swimming with wind & tide Came swimming with great celerity And the Devil was tickled he saw all the whil[e] How it cut its own throat & he thought with a [smile] Of England's Commercial Prosperity