L.

_Nunc scimus te habere daemonium._ Joan. viii. 52.

Aut Deus, aut saltem daemon tibi notior esset,

Gens mala, quae dicis daemona habere Deum.

Ignorasse Deum poteras, o caeca; sed oro,

Et patrem poteras tam male nosse tuum?

_Now we know Thee to have a devil._

God or the devil by you

ought better to be known,

Ye wicked ones, who charge

your God a devil to own.

Ign'rant of God, indeed,

ye well might be; but O,

The devil, your own father,

how could ye fail to know? G.

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