DEVIL.
I called the devil, and he came,
And with wonder his form did I closely scan;
He is not ugly, and is not lame,
But really a handsome and charming man.
A man in the prime of life is the devil,
Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;
A diplomatist too, well skilled in debate,
He talks quite glibly of church and state.
Pictures of Travel: Return Home. H. HEINE.
The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.
Works, Bk. IV. F. RABELAIS.
He must needs go that the devil drives.
All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Paradise and the Peri. T. MOORE.