]
[Devils hate the joys of God and the brightness of the sun;
they delight in stinking places, and melancholy and hell-like
things.]
si?? ??{a}t deuelis be dampned, & ful of wreche of helle, ??erfore
??ei hate ??e clennesse & ??e ioie of oure lord god & of hise
seyntis / also ??ei haten ??e su{n}ne and his cleernes, and pure
??i{n}gis ??{a}t maken a man glad. and naturaly it plesi?? he{m} to 4
dwelle in derk, & in blak, orrible, stynkynge placis, in heuynesse,
[But our Quinte Essence is heavenly, like the joy of Paradise,
and drives away anger and all that devils love, so that it is
fitly called ???Man??™s Heaven.??™]
wreche, & malencoly, & i{n} ??o ??i{n}gis ??{a}t p{re}tende ??e
condiciou{n} of helle / And si?? oure 5. e{ss}enc{e} aforeseid is so
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heuenly a ??i{n}g, & by sotil c{ra}ft [*]brou??t to so myche swetnes, 8
it is so sou{er}eyn a medicy{n} ??{a}t it may weel be lijkned to ??e ioie
of p{ar}adice. forwhi, it maki?? a man li??t, iocunde, glad, and
merie, & putti?? awey heuynesse[9], angre, melencoly, & wra????e,
[Footnote 9: houynesse MS.]
[To deliver a man from a devil,--give him some of our Quinte
Essence with that of gold and pearl, and St. John??™s Wort
water: at once the devil will flee away.]
??e whiche ??at deuelis loue / +et ideo n{os}tra 5 e{ss}enc{ia} digne 12
vocat{ur} celu{m} humanu{m}+ / Also if a man be traueylid wi?? a
feend, and may not be delyuerid fro hi{m}, lete hi{m} dri{n}ke a litil
quantite of oure 5 e{ss}en{ce}, wi?? 5 e{ss}en{ce} of gold & peerl, and
[???fuga demonu{m}??™]
wi?? an eerbe callid ypericon, i.
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