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 Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as 
tiles on its roofs, I would read more 
 Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as 
tiles on its roofs, I would enter. 
 When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil 
drives.)  
 When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil 
drives.) 
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
 The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.  
 The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. 
 This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no 
long spoon.  
 This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no 
long spoon. 
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
 Are of imagination all compact.
  One sees more devils than read more 
 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
 Are of imagination all compact.
  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
       And as imagination bodies forth
        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
          A local habitation and a name.