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Artifice.

Do you desire the applause
    of the worldly as well as the pious,

Picture licentiousness, but
    picture the Devil besides.[5]


Der Kunstgriff.

Wollt ihr zugleich den Kindern der Welt
    und den Frommen gefallen?

Malet die Wollust — nur
    malet den Teufel dazu.