id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5282 La Fontaine, Jean de The Tales and Novels, v9: Belphegor and Others .txt text/plain 3074 270 91 NO hope of gaining such a charming fair, ONE, day, old Satan, sov'reign dread of hell; The monarch, as he passed, desired to know Some said--my HUSBAND; others WIFE replied; An art in which a demon should excel: No devil surely e'er was liked so well. said the demon, is a lady gained Honesta often times such noise would make, POOR Rod'rick now no other hope had got, Whose charms corporeal much our demon pleased; Thrice Matthew drove him out from belle and maid. Within her form, the wily demon thought He'd make the demon from the fair depart. For since Belphegor had obliged him thrice, But all in vain:--the man they took by force; THE demon was before our farmer placed; The demon was by Matthew often prayed; THE demon, with surprise, to Matthew cried; Sire, said the demon, it is clearly true, Said he, fair maid whene'er the heart's on fire, ./cache/5282.txt ./txt/5282.txt