I was talking of angels awhile since. Well,
Now I’ll change to a devil—ay, to a devil![1214]
You needn’t start; if a spirit of evil
Ever came to this world its hate to slake
On mankind, it came as a dukite snake,
Now, mark[1215] you, these dukites don’t go alone;
There’s another near when you see but one;
And beware you of killing that one you see
Without finding the other; for you may be
More than twenty miles from the spot that night,