Tho. In Truth, Polus was a very modest, religious Devil.

Ans. He was so, otherwise he might have been blamed for not observing a Decorum, but yet he heard the Priest’s Voice appointing him Satisfaction.

Tho. What was that?

Ans. That he should say the glorious 78th Psalm, three Times over, by which he conjectured he had had to do with her three Times that Night.

Tho. He was an irregular Regular.

Ans. They are but Men, and this is but human Frailty.

Tho. Well, proceed:  what was done after this?

Ans. Now Faunus more couragiously advances to the very Edge of the Circle, and challenges the Devil of his own Accord; but the Devil’s Heart failed him, and he fled back.  You have deceived me, says he, if I had been wise I had not given you that Caution:  Many are of Opinion, that what you have once confess’d is immediately struck out of the Devil’s Memory, that he can never be able to twit you in the Teeth for it.

Tho. What a ridiculous Conceit do you tell me of?

Ans. But to draw towards a Conclusion of the Matter:  This Dialogue with the Ghost held for some Days; at last it came to this Issue:  The Exorcist asking the Soul, If there was any Way by which it might possibly be delivered from its Torments, it answered, it might, if the Money that it had left behind, being gotten by Cheating, should be restored.  Then, says Faunus, What if it were put into the Hands of good People, to be disposed of to pious Uses?  The Spirit reply’d, That might do.  The Exorcist was rejoic’d at this; he enquires particularly, What Sum there was of it?  The Spirit reply’d, That it was a vast Sum, and might prove very good and commodious:  it told the Place too where the Treasure was hid, but it was a long Way off:  And it order’d what Uses it should be put to.

Tho. What were they?

Ans. That three Persons were to undertake a Pilgrimage; one to the Threshold of St. Peter; another to salute St. James at Compostella; and the third should kiss Jesus’s Comb at Tryers; and after that, a vast Number of Services and Masses should be performed in several great Monasteries; and as to the Overplus, he should dispose of it as he pleas’d.  Now Faunus’s Mind was fixed upon the Treasure; he had, in a Manner, swallowed it in his Mind.

Tho. That’s a common Disease; but more peculiarly thrown in the Priests Dish, upon all Occasions.