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there Put the person well forward, if you please Good Noe are

ready for our advocates; we need an Advocatus Dei, or accuser,

and an Advocatus Diaboli, or common enemy, to be defender

Melot, hty, and the office

is high enough for you, I hope Diaboli Advocatus we have

naturally none, since this is a Christian land Believe me, we are

better without such cattle I proceed, therefore, by the rules of

logic which are well known to be irresistible, so much so that had

there been a devil's advocate present I must have declined to admit

him lest our Christian profession be made a ht almost foretell the event; but

that would be prejudice We proceed then to interpolate the accused,

saying--'Person, you (being aa

wo this plain

rider and doom, that if you declare yourself a man, you are condemned

in the person of your familiar, the devil, who deceiveth those that

say you are a woman; and that if you prove to be a woman, you are

condemned by those who dealt with you as a man Therefore, declare'"