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If I have sinn'd, give me some other punishment:
Let me but look on her still, and double it!
O, whither, whither do you hurry me?[Carry him away

Peridor. Madam, you must in.130

Reginella. Ay me! what's this?
Must!———[Exit

Enter other Devils

1st Thief. We have had such sport! Yonder's the
rarest poet without, h'as made all his confession in blank
verse; not left a god nor a goddess in heaven, but fetch'd135
them all down for witnesses. H'as made such a description
of Styx and the Ferry, and verily thinks he has past
them! Enquires for the bless'd shades, and asks much
after certain British blades; one Shakespeare and Fletcher:
and grew so peremptory at last, he would be carried where140
they were.

2nd Thief. And what did you with him?

1st Thief. Mounting him upon a coal-staff, which
(tossing him something high) he apprehended to be
Pegasus. So we have left him to tell strange lies; which145
he'll turn into verse; and some wise people hereafter into
religion.[Exeunt

 

ACT IV
Scene I
Enter Samorat, Nassurat, and Pellegrin

Nassurat. Good faith, 'tis wondrous well. We have e'en done
Like eager disputers; and with much ado
Are got to be just where we were. This is
The corner of the wood.

Samorat. Ha! 'tis indeed!

Pellegrin. Had we no walking fire,5
Nor saucer-ey'd devil of these woods that led us?
Now am I as weary as a married man after the first week;
and have no more desire to move forwards than a post-
horse that has pass'd his stage.

Nassurat. 'Sfoot, yonder's the night too, stealing away10
with her black gown about her, like a kind wench that had
staid out the last minute with a man.

Pellegrin. What shall we do, gentlemen? I apprehend