Ready to cheat, seduce, deceive, devour.
"Me has the sly seducer oft withstood,"
Said pious Jachin,—"but he gets no good;
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I pass the house where swings the tempting sign,
And, pointing, tell him, 'Satan, that is thine;'
I pass the damsels pacing down the street,
And look more grave and solemn when we meet;
Nor doth it irk me to rebuke their smiles,
Their wanton ambling and their watchful wiles.