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OF THE DISCOMFITURE
our body, in which if Christ dwelt that is, if our soul be full of his love, nothing repugnant to him will inhabit it. The boy is a clear conscience, and the epistle is confession and repentance.
TALE LXXV.
OF THE DISCOMFITURE OF THE DEVIL.
There is in England, as Gervase tells us, on the borders of the episcopal see of Ely, a castle called Cathubica; a little below which, is a place distinguished by the appellation of Wandlesbury[1], because, as they say, the Vandals, having laid waste the country, and cruelly slaughtered the Christians, here pitched their camp. (85) It was on the summit of a hill, on a round plain, and en-
- ↑ Near Cambridge.
