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The works of Lord Byron

A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero

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Here Michael interposed: “Good Saint! and Devil!
Pray, not so fast; you both outrun discretion.
Saint Peter! you were wont to be more civil:
Satan! excuse this warmth of his expression,

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And condescension to the vulgar's level:
Even Saints sometimes forget themselves in session.
Have you got more to say?”—“No.”—“If you please,
I'll trouble you to call your witnesses.”