CYPRIAN: 
Who made man 180
Must have, methinks, the advantage of the others. 
If they are equal, might they not have risen
In opposition to the work, and being
All hands, according to our author here,
Have still destroyed even as the other made? 185
If equal in their power, unequal only
In opportunity, which of the two
Will remain conqueror?

NOTE: 
186 unequal only transcr.; and only unequal 1824.

DAEMON: 
On impossible
And false hypothesis there can be built
No argument.  Say, what do you infer 190
From this?

CYPRIAN: 
That there must be a mighty God
Of supreme goodness and of highest grace,
All sight, all hands, all truth, infallible,
Without an equal and without a rival,
The cause of all things and the effect of nothing, 195
One power, one will, one substance, and one essence. 
And, in whatever persons, one or two,
His attributes may be distinguished, one
Sovereign power, one solitary essence,
One cause of all cause.

NOTE: 
197 And]query, Ay?

[THEY RISE.]

DAEMON: 
How can I impugn 200
So clear a consequence?

NOTE: 
200 all cause 1824; all things transcr.

CYPRIAN: 
Do you regret
My victory?

DAEMON: 
Who but regrets a check
In rivalry of wit?  I could reply
And urge new difficulties, but will now
Depart, for I hear steps of men approaching, 205
And it is time that I should now pursue
My journey to the city.

CYPRIAN: 
Go in peace!

DAEMON: 
Remain in peace!—­Since thus it profits him
To study, I will wrap his senses up
In sweet oblivion of all thought but of 210
A piece of excellent beauty; and, as I
Have power given me to wage enmity
Against Justina’s soul, I will extract
From one effect two vengeances.

[ASIDE AND EXIT.]

NOTE: 
214 Stage direction So transcr.; Exit 1824.

CYPRIAN: 
I never
Met a more learned person.  Let me now 215
Revolve this doubt again with careful mind.

[HE READS.]

[FLORO AND LELIO ENTER.]

LELIO: 
Here stop.  These toppling rocks and tangled boughs,
Impenetrable by the noonday beam,
Shall be sole witnesses of what we—­

FLORO: 
Draw! 
If there were words, here is the place for deeds. 220

LELIO: 
Thou needest not instruct me; well I know
That in the field, the silent tongue of steel
Speaks thus,—­

[THEY FIGHT.]