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The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying / So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; / But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning, / And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning, / Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God, / I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load! "