CYPRIAN. Can you doubt it?
DEMON. Then command them
To retire, those two, your servants,
So that we remain here only.
CYPRIAN. Go: both leave me for the present.
MOSCON. I obey.
[Exit.
CLARIN. And I as well.--
[Aside, concealing himself.
Such a guest must be the devil.
CYPRIAN. They are gone.
DEMON [aside]. That Clarin's hiding,
Is to me of small concernment.
CYPRIAN. What more wish you now?
DEMON. First fasten
Well this door.
CYPRIAN. Yes; none can enter.
DEMON. For the possession of this woman,
With your lips you have asserted
You would give your soul.
CYPRIAN. 'Tis so.
DEMON. Then the contract is accepted.
CYPRIAN. What do you say?
DEMON. That I accept it.
CYPRIAN. How?
DEMON. So much have I effected
By my science, that I will teach you
How by it to get possession
Of the woman that you worship;
For I (though so wise and learned)
Have no other means to win her.
Let us now in writing settle
What we have resolved between us.
CYPRIAN. Do you wish by new pretences
To prolong the pains I suffer?
In my hand is what I tender,
But in yours is not the offer
That you make me; no, for never
Conjurations or enchantments
Can free will control or fetter.
DEMON. Give me, on the terms you spoke of,
Your signed bond.
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