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The Demon.
DEMON. Abyss of hell prepare! / Thyself the region of thine own despair. -- / From out each dungeon's dark recess / Let loose the spirits of voluptuousness, / To rain and o'erthrow / Justina's virgin fabric pure as snow. / A thousand filthy phantoms with thee brought / So people her chaste thought / That all her maiden fancies may be filled / With their deceits; let sweetest notes be trilled / From every tuneful grove, / And all, birds, plants, and flowers, provoke to love. / Let nothing meet her eyes / But spoils of love's delicious victories, / Let nothing meet her ears / But languid sighs that listening passion hears: / That thus unguarded by the faith, and weak, / She here may Cyprian seek / Invoked by his strong spell, / And by my blinding spirit lured as well. / Begin, in silence I will here remain / Unseen, that you may now begin the strain. / [Exit.