By the evening curfew bell,

By the doleful dying knell,

O let this my direful spell,

Hob, hinder thy surprising!

"By the mandrake's dreadful groans,

By the lubrican's[[12]] sad moans,

By the noise of dead men's bones

In charnel-houses rattling;

By the hissing of the snake,

The rustling of the fire-drake[[13]],