IX.) A sholt pause, while the devils make feints with their weapons then the soul's scale slowly sinks its condemnation is pronounced, and it is given over to the tormentors, who struggle over it, gnaw it with their teeth, and make believe to impale it on their tridents, snarling and squealing with fielndish joy the while. Ths chorus pronounces a short epilogue, and points a seasonable moral-" If you would escape the miser's doom,put your pennie& in the box." The play is over the miser rises in the sight of all, takes up his bed, and walks off with the rest ot the troupe to the next convenient spot. The performance is evidently got up with some care, and tne actors, especially the archangel, are not without dramatic power of a kind. The dialogue is in rhyming iambic catalectic tetra- meters (8,6,8,6 of our hymn-books), which is the regular Greek ballad metre but as the words themselves are preserved with some jealousy, it is not easy to get a copy of them. ITHIPISO GATHAWA IN WORD DOCUMENT ARCHIVE.
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