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XVI.

Now, to all the world it is well known
How the Devil rides the wind by night:
Doing all the harm he can
In the absence of Heaven's light
To the world's well-order'd plan,
And with murrain, mildew, blight,
Or thunder blue, or hailstone white,
Marring the thrift of the honest man,
Which much doth move his spite.