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5
150-159

  • The Devil frightens you, saying, “Hark and hark again! You will be sorry for this and will be saddened. 150
  • If you waste away your body in consequence of these idle whims, you will become very sorry and anxious.
  • Eat this, it is hot and good for your health; and drink that for your benefit and as a cure,
  • With the intention (of acting on the principle) that (since) this body is your riding-beast that to which it is accustomed is best for it.
  • Beware, do not alter your habit, else mischief will ensure and a hundred maladies will be produced in brain and heart.”
  • Such menaces does the vile Devil employ, and he chants a hundred spells over the people. 155
  • He makes himself out to be a Galen (for skill) in medicine, that he may deceive your ailing soul.
  • “This,” says he, “is of use to you against any sorrow and pain.” He said the same thing to Adam about an ear of wheat.
  • He utters (hypocritical expressions such as) “Ah, ah” and “Alas,” while he twists your lips with the farrier's barnacle,
  • As (the farrier twists) the lips of a horse when shoeing it, in order that he (the Devil) may cause an inferior (worthless) stone to appear as a ruby.