"You ought to give us notice, you can't have it to-day."
O then she wept most bitterly and told them her tale,
How the devil he would fetch her, or her money without fail,
Says the banker, "I will help you, though I beg you will be still,
And I'll apprehend the devil and send him to the tread-mill."
At Empsall a great thundering noise was heard again that night;
The devil down the chimney came with his long horns and a light,
Two men that were in readiness seized him in a trice,
And they held the devil just as fast, as if he'd been in a vice.
Next day great crowds of people went to see the devil there,