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CYPRIAN: / O memory! permit it not / That the tyrant of my thought / Be another soul that still / Holds dominion o'er the will, / That would refuse, but can no more, / To bend, to tremble, and adore. / Vain idolatry! -I saw, / And gazing, became blind with error; / Weak ambition, which the awe / Of her presence bound to terror! / So beautiful she was-and I, / Between my love and jealousy, / Am so convulsed with hope and fear, / Unworthy as it may appear; - / So bitter is the life I live, / That, hear me, Hell! I now would give / To thy most detested spirit / My soul, for ever to inherit, / To suffer punishment and pine, / So this woman may be mine. / Hear'st thou, Hell! dost thou reject it? / My soul is offered!
DAEMON (UNSEEN): / I accept it.