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238 Agrippa kept a Stygian pug, I' th' garb and habit of a dog, That was his tutor, and the cur Read to th' occult philosopher, And taught him subt'ly to maintain All other sciences are vain. To this, quoth Sidrophello, Sir, Agrippa was no conjurer, Nor Paracelsus, no, nor Behmen; Nor was the dog a caco-dæmon, But a true dog that would show tricks For th' emperor, and leap o'er sticks; Would fetch and carry, was more civil Than other dogs, but yet no devil; And whatsoe'er he's said to do, He went the self-same way we go. As for the Rosy-cross philosophers, Whom you will have to be but sorcerers, What they pretend to is no more Than Trismegistus did before,