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Madness on these began to grow,
And bound him to his fiends a slave.
Though the wild thoughts had touch'd his brain,
Then was he free.—So, forth he ran;
To soothe or threat, alike were vain:
He spake of fiends; look'd wild and wan;
Year after year, the hurried man
Obey'd those fiends from place to place;
Till his religious change began