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The devil's most devilish when respectable.
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
The bane of all that dread the Devil!
The bane of all that dread the Devil!
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
 Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
 Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
  That fires the length of Ophiucus read more 
 Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
 Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge
   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair
    Shakes pestilence and war. 
 The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
 Modo he's called, and Mahu.  
 The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
 Modo he's called, and Mahu. 
Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.
 Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
 That shal ete with a feend.  
 Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
 That shal ete with a feend. 
 From morn
 To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
  A summer's day; and with the read more 
 From morn
 To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
  A summer's day; and with the setting sun
   Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.