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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
 The spirit that I have seen
 May be a devil, and the devil hath power
  T' assume read more 
 The spirit that I have seen
 May be a devil, and the devil hath power
  T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps
   Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
    As he is very potent with such spirits,
     Abuses me to damn me. 
 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. 
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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.
 It is Lucifer,
 The son of mystery;
  And since God suffers him to be,
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 It is Lucifer,
 The son of mystery;
  And since God suffers him to be,
   He, too, is God's minister,
    And labors for some good
     By us not understood. 
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he 
will flee from you.  
 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he 
will flee from you. 
 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it 
shall bring him to the king of terrors.  
 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it 
shall bring him to the king of terrors.