truth, which I
Tell, because God makes me tell it,
Much against my will, my practice
Not being great as a truth-teller.
[He falls swiftly, and sinks into the earth.
LIVIA. Oh! what horror!
FLORUS. What confusion!
LIVIA. What a prodigy!
MOSCON. What terror!
GOVERNOR. These are all but the enchantments
Which this sorcerer effected
At his death.
FLORUS. I am in doubt
To believe them or reject them.
LELIUS. The mere thought of them confounds me.
CLARIN. If magician, it is certain,
As I hold, he must have been
The magician then of heaven.
MOSCON. Leaving our partitioned love
In a rather odd dilemma,
For "The Wonderful Magician"
Ask the pardon of its errors.
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