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CANTO III.] Others with characters and words Catch 'em, as men in nets do birds; And some with symbols, signs, and tricks, Engrav'd in planetary nicks, With their own influences will fetch 'em Down from their orbs, arrest, and catch 'em; Make 'em depose, and answer to All questions, ere they let them go. Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks. Kelly did all his feats upon The Devil's looking-glass, a stone, Where, playing with him at bo-peep, He solv'd all problems ne'er so deep.