"1st Dev. Ay, we miss them here.
"Glee.
"What's a woman good for?
Rat me, sir, if I know.
* * * * *
She's a savor to the glass,
An excuse to make it pass.
* * * * *
"1st Dev. I fear we are like the wits above, who abuse women only because they can't get them,—and, after all, it must be owned they are a pretty kind of creatures.
"All. Yes, yes.
"Catch.
"'Tis woman after all
Is the blessing of this ball,
'Tis she keeps the balance of it even.
We are devils, it is true,
But had we women too,
Our Tartarus would turn to a Heaven!"
A scene in the Third Act, where these devils bring the prisoners whom they have captured to trial, is an overcharged imitation of the satire of Fielding, and must have been written, I think, after a perusal of that author's Satirical Romance, "A Journey from this World to the Next,"—the first half of which contains as much genuine humor and fancy as are to be found in any other production of the kind. The interrogatories of Minos in that work suggested, I suspect, the following scene:—
"Enter a number of Devils.—Others bring in LUDOVICO.
"1st Dev. Just taken, in the wood, sir, with two more.