Excerpt from The Devil Upon Two Sticks: Translated From the Diable Boiteux
Take this opportunity of acquainting you, that that is publifhed a new edition of the devil upon two flicks: Notwithfianding the antipathy that all mankind have conceiyed, ever fince the. Original fin pf. Adam, againfi the race of fallen angels, every body'loves Afmodeus. He is read,. He is careflkd 5 never was devil fo fondled. True it is he might have appeared to Cleofas under a femewhat more gracious figure fuch as the poets reprefent'him, when she is introduced. Under the fpecious appellation of Cltpid. But he {corned to nfe any difguife to his deliverer, and fhewed him 5 original uglinefs, as a proof he had a mind to deal (mrely with him; and an inflame of fihcerjty it was not very common for how many lov¢ns are there, who never had once an opportunity of beholding the faces. Of their mi d'trefiies sully in their native, and without borrowed f shuns? Andoafter all, Inch 33 we &e* him, he appease more like the god of pleafure, than: in all thofc beauties and graces theanciems have hefiow ed upon him, when they equip him as the god fnf 10m; and his mantle, with its ingenious emf blame, becomes him better than the fillet, thegild-f ed wings. And the [candies quiver.
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