If he be not, 20
At all, why, are there Coniurers?
At all, why, are there Coniurers?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
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Their rauens wings, their lights, and _pentacles_,
With _characters_; I ha' ? eene all the? e. But--
Would I might ? ee the _Diuell_. I would giue 10
A hundred o' the? e pictures, to ? ee him
Once out of picture. May I proue a cuckold,
(And that's the one maine mortall thing I feare)
If I beginne not, now, to thinke, the Painters
Haue onely made him. 'Slight, he would be ? eene, 15
One time or other el? e. He would not let
An ancient gentleman, of a good hou? e,
As mo? t are now in _England_, the _Fitz-Dottrel's_
Runne wilde, and call vpon him thus in vaine,
As I ha' done this twelue mone'th.
If he be not, 20
At all, why, are there Coniurers? If they be not,
Why, are there lawes again? t 'hem? The be? t arti? ts
Of _Cambridge_, _Oxford_, _Middlesex_, and _London_,
_Essex_, and _Kent_, I haue had in pay to rai? e him,
The? e fifty weekes, and yet h'appeares not. 'Sdeath, 25
I ? hall ? u? pect, they, can make circles onely
Shortly, and know but his hard names. They doe ? ay,
H'will meet a man (of him? elfe) that has a mind to him.
If hee would ?
Their rauens wings, their lights, and _pentacles_,
With _characters_; I ha' ? eene all the? e. But--
Would I might ? ee the _Diuell_. I would giue 10
A hundred o' the? e pictures, to ? ee him
Once out of picture. May I proue a cuckold,
(And that's the one maine mortall thing I feare)
If I beginne not, now, to thinke, the Painters
Haue onely made him. 'Slight, he would be ? eene, 15
One time or other el? e. He would not let
An ancient gentleman, of a good hou? e,
As mo? t are now in _England_, the _Fitz-Dottrel's_
Runne wilde, and call vpon him thus in vaine,
As I ha' done this twelue mone'th.
If he be not, 20
At all, why, are there Coniurers? If they be not,
Why, are there lawes again? t 'hem? The be? t arti? ts
Of _Cambridge_, _Oxford_, _Middlesex_, and _London_,
_Essex_, and _Kent_, I haue had in pay to rai? e him,
The? e fifty weekes, and yet h'appeares not. 'Sdeath, 25
I ? hall ? u? pect, they, can make circles onely
Shortly, and know but his hard names. They doe ? ay,
H'will meet a man (of him? elfe) that has a mind to him.
If hee would ?