You always take the two sides of one question. When night falls, veiling in its shadows wide MOSCON. How happens it, although you can maintain That yet you go there? Livia is she who has surprised my heart; But he is more than half way there.-Soho! Livia, I come; good sport, Livia, soho! [Exit. CYPRIAN. Now since I am alone, let me examine The question which has long disturbed my mind The words of mystic import and deep sense Can find no God with whom these marks and signs Fitly agree. It is a hidden truth Which I must fathom. Enter the DEVIL, as a fine Gentleman. DÆMON. [Reads. Search even as thou wilt, But thou shalt never find what I can hide. 'Tis a foreign gentleman. Even from this morning I have lost my way My way, and lost my servants and my comrades. CYPRIAN. 'Tis singular, that, even within the sight Of the high towers of Antioch, you could lose Your way. Of all the avenues and green paths Of this wild wood there is not one but leads, As to its centre, to the walls of Antioch; Take which you will you cannot miss your road. DEMON. And such is ignorance! Even in the sight DEMON. Many. CYPRIAN. Alas! Much pains must we expend on one alone, DÆMON. And with truth; For, in the country whence I come, sciences CYPRIAN. Oh, would I were of that bright country! for in this DÆMON. It is so true that I Had so much arrogance as to oppose That which you know best, and although I CYPRIAN. The offer gives me pleasure. I am now Of Plinius, and my mind is racked with doubt DÆMON. It is a passage, if I recollect it right, couched in these words: "God is one supreme goodness, one pure essence, One substance, and one sense, all sight, all hands.” CYPRIAN. 'Tis true. DÆMON. What difficulty find you here? CYPRIAN. I do not recognize among the Gods Is not supremely good; because we see Tainted with mortal weakness. In what manner Can supreme goodness be consistent with The passions of humanity? DEMON. The wisdom Of the old world masked with the names of Gods |