Caplm .xxxiij.
DIues. Whan he is coniured he is so boūde by vertue of ho¦ly wordes that he must nedes saye trouthe whiche he knoweth yf it be axed hym. ¶Pauper. Suche wyt∣ches & charmers. Iapers & faytours that vse suche craftes haue no power to bynde hym ne to compelle hym to telle suche sothes / ne right nought for to do ne for to tell. For he may nough¦te do ne telle without to haue graūte of god. And therfore suche Iapers and wytches bynde not the fende / but the fende byndeth them full harde in his seruage / and kepeth them thral∣les to hym passynge all other / whose boundage is full harde to theym for to escape without a specyall grace of god. ¶Diues Contra Ofte men kno¦we that clerkes close hem in rynges and in other thynges & make hem to telle & to do many wondres. ¶Pau∣per. The fende fayneth hym to be boūde with suche Iapers wordes for to dysceyue them & other by them / and yet is he not closed ne bounde / but he gooth abrode as he dyde byfore / and whan he is called he is somtyme redy to answere for he is full swyfte / some tyme he is not redy to answere / ne to do theyr wyll / and often though he wolde he may not / for god wyll not suffre hym. ¶Diues. Yet contra te. Men wote well that in many londes prestes and clerkes with holy coniu∣racōns and holy prayers ordeyned of holy chirche catche wycked spyrytes out of men and wymen. ¶Pauper. That is soth / and not oonly good ly¦uers / but wycked lyuers in many lon¦des catche fendes out of men and wy¦men & childern by the vertue of god∣des wordes / and holy coniuracyons and holy prayers ordeyned of holy chirche / and sooner a good man or a good woman shall doo that than a wycked. Suche bynde the fende and do hym lese his power and his lord∣shyp to shame and shenshyp of hym and all his. Suche seke the worshyp of god and shenshypp of the fende & helpe of mannes soule. And therfore they haue power of god to bynde hȳ and to compelle hym. But yet as the glose sayth Marce. v. su{per} illud. Quod est tibi nomen. They that ben so tra∣uaylled with the fende muste fyrst be clene shreuen as ferre as they may & knowe and telle all the maner of the fendes doynge / and of the temptacy∣on that they haue eyther wakynge or slepynge / by syght / by herynge / by fe∣lynge / or by ony of theyr wyttes / or by ony thought or fantasye / and dysco∣uere all the fendes counseyll. But the se wytches faytours and Iapers seke the fendes worshyp and not goddes worshyp. They seke helpe of the fen∣de and forsake goddes helpe / and do sacrefyce to the fende & forsake god∣des sacrefyce & take the fende to ther lorde and make hym theyr god. And