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The Devil one day, coming up from the Pit, / All grimy with perspiration, / Applied to St. Peter and begged he'd admit / Him a moment for consultation.
The Saint showed him in where the Master reclined / On the throne where petitioners sought him; / Both bowed, and the Evil One opened his mind / Concerning the business that brought him: