[Footnote 1: When the Devil, banished from heaven, resolved on the
temptation of mankind, he loved to make use of music which had been
made known to him as a heavenly privilege when he still was a member of
the eternal hosts. But the Almighty deprived him of his memory, so he
could remember but a single strain, and this mysterious, bewitching
strain is still called in Arabia "The Devil's Strain--Asbein."--_Arabian
Legends_.]