come. And all this teaching in this true comfort, it is general, to all mine even-Christians, as it is aforesaid: and so is God's will.
And this word: Thou shalt not be overcome, was said full clearly[1] and full mightily, for assuredness and comfort against all tribulations that may come. He said not: Thou shalt not he tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome. God willeth that we take heed to these words, and that we be ever strong in sure trust, in weal and woe. For He loveth and enjoyeth us, and so willeth He that we love and enjoy Him and mightily trust in Him; and all shall be well.
And soon after, all was close and I saw no more.
CHAPTER LXIX
"I was delivered from the Enemy by the virtue of Christ's Passion"
AFTER this the Fiend came again with his heat and with his stench, and gave me much ado,[2] the stench was so vile and so painful, and also dreadful and travailous. Also I heard a bodily jangling,[3] as if it had been of two persons; and both, to my thinking, jangled at one time as if they had holden a parliament with a great busy-ness; and all was soft muttering, so that I understood nought that they said. And all this was to stir me to despair, as methought,—seeming to me as [though] they mocked at
