¶ Of them that are vayne or troubelous in tyme of goddes seruyce and lette bothe hymselfe and other.
Capitulo .xvii.
But thys malycyous serpent when he seeth that he is thus chased of many and dryuen a way he seketh to entre agayne by an other way. For then he assayeth [Yet even when the Evil One is driven away for a time he has many devices for causing dis∣traction.] to gette holde in some one whome he sturrethe anone, to make some vayne chere or sygne or token wherby one or other and some tyme many ar meued to some maner of dyssolucyon, and so dystracte from the sad∣nes of inwarde deuocyon. An other he sturreth to make som weywarde token or to do some thynge com∣berously where thrughe other ar taryed in theyre myndes and troubeled & so theyre spyrytes ar dryuen from quyetnes of deuocyon into anguysshe & paynefull grudginges. Then but if they haste them the faster to