Or, my scrofulous French novel
On gray paper with blunt type!
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in Belials gripe:
If I double down its pages
At the woeful sixteenth print,
When he gathers his greengages,
Ope a sieve and slip it in't?

— Robert Browning Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (1839)

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Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis | Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904

Or, my scrofulous French novel
On gray paper with blunt type!
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in Belials gripe:
If I double down its pages
At the woeful sixteenth print,
When he gathers his greengages,
Ope a sieve and slip it in't?

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Or, my scrofulous French novelOn gray paper with blunt type!Simply glance at it, you grovelHand and foot in Belials gripe:If I double down its pagesAt the woeful sixteenth print,When he gathers his greengages,Ope a sieve and slip it in't?

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Or, my scrofulous French novel
On gray paper with blunt type!
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in Belials gripe:
If I double down its pages
At the woeful sixteenth print,
When he gathers his greengages,
Ope a sieve and slip it in't?