rom my servants, lest they should go and blab about it to the priests, and so I am as good as alone in the house. Do not therefore leave me, for it may happen that some evil

es against this assault on our courage. Inste

Blaeskaek, "I am

ttle S

e, no longer sorrowful, but joyous, singing songs in a strange tongue; and there followed divers sweet chants, such as angels might sing (speaking with proper res

will want more of it, and come crying every night and shouting louder than ever: 'Drink! Drink!' And I shall be ruined, alas, alas! Come, friend Blaeskaek"-and so

not until a little later, at cock-crow. They

sun rose th

rtial a tone that you would hav

he devils suddenly put a stop

e overjoyed at that, and ran

what seemed to be a young boy, quite naked, a fair, sweet little boy, gaily crowned with vine-leaves, with a bunch of grapes

stone, he had all the appearance of bei

ns and Blaeskaek at the

swearing together to say no word about it to any one, they put the figure (w