e greedy rogues bemaul

En efecto, agigantado,
Con negro manto talar,
Cornamenta singular,
Ufias largas y barbado.

A mighty giant, lo he comes.
Wrapped in a cloak of sable;
With horns, hoofs, nails, and beard yclad,
He jumped upon the table!

Un garrote enarbolado
Y brotando espuma y fuego,
Les dijo: _Yo devo al juego_
_Mi desgracia y este estado._

A cudgel of some seven years' growth
He brandished. Fire and smoke
Shot from his lips, while thus he spake;--
"I'll gripe you gambling folk.

_Los fulleros me han quitado_
_Con mi dinero, la vida,_
_Y pues que sois homicida_
_De todo hombre inocente!_

"To gaming my disgrace I owe,
With money went my wife;
'Tis such as you the murderers be,--
This night shall end your life!

_No quede vicho viviente,_
_En toda culta nacion,_
_Que ejerza la profesion_
_De fullero y vagamundo_.

"In every nation, called refined,
Or gamblers or their wives,
Or wealthy wight shall ne'er be found,
Who shakes the bones and thrives."

Y dando un grito profundo,
Su garrote descargando,
A todos fue despachando,
Sin dejar uno en el mundo.

With that a loud and horrid yell
He gave. And cudgel flew
Broadside amongst them; when, like vermin, he
Dispatched the hungry crew!

No extinguio, sin duda, el Duende,
Toda la mala semilla,
Pues hay muchos, como el Duende,
Sin camisa, y sin capilla.

But woe is me, they were not all destroyed.
For many still, by these cursed arts decoyed,
Shoeless and shirtless, miserable sinners,
Are seen, snuffing, with empty wind, their dinners!

In the _Dunske Folkesagen_ appear one or two circumstances relative to
the freaks of a _nis_, the goblin of the Danish popular creed, similar
to the pranks detailed in our Lancashire legend. Fancy, however sportive
and playful with materials already in her possession, is of a much less
creative character than is generally supposed, even by those most
susceptible to her influence. It is surprising how few are the original
conceptions that have sprung from the human mind. Popular
superstitions--the great mass of them spread over an immense variety of
surface, climate, manners, and opinions--might be supposed to exhibit a
corresponding difference in originality and invention. But here