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The Devil, I safely can aver, / Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting; / Nor is he, as some sages swear, / A spirit, neither here nor there, / In nothing-yet in everything.
He is-what we are; for sometimes / The Devil is a gentleman; / At others a bard bartering rhymes / For sack; a statesman spinning crimes; / A swindler, living as he can;