NOTE: _36 doting ignorance transcr.; ignorance and pride 1824.
MOSCON:
How happens it, although you can maintain
The folly of enjoying festivals,
That yet you go there?
CLARIN:
Nay, the consequence
Is clear:—who ever did what he advises
Others to do?—
MOSCON:
Would that my feet were wings, _45
So would I fly to Livia.
[EXIT.]
CLARIN:
To speak truth,
Livia is she who has surprised my heart;
But he is more than half-way there.—Soho!
Livia, I come; good sport, Livia, soho!
[EXIT.]
CYPRIAN:
Now, since I am alone, let me examine _50
The question which has long disturbed my mind
With doubt, since first I read in Plinius
The words of mystic import and deep sense
In which he defines God. My intellect
Can find no God with whom these marks and signs _55
Fitly agree. It is a hidden truth
Which I must fathom.
[CYPRIAN READS; THE DAEMON, DRESSED IN A COURT DRESS, ENTERS.]
NOTE: _57 Stage Direction: So transcr. Reads. Enter the Devil as a fine gentleman 1824.