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Who have the inclination for all ill,
And courage lack to perfect it, content
To trail at the fringe of the Devil's draggled skirts,
Rather than make him do your bidding.
Madam Pomeroy:
Aye,
But that commits a body, so no pact!
When you, long years ago, did, half in jest,
Sign, seal, deliver, that wicked document,
Providing if ever you th' Elixir found
You render'd up your soul
Sylvester:
Where was it then?
Either in Rome or in high Germany.
Have I not first frequented, then forsook
Schools of Bologna, Paris, Padua,
Ferrara, Louvain, Baselhaving won
