2203 And sometimes, at our prayer, have we leave Only the body, not the soul, to grieve: Witness on Job, whom that we did full woe, And sometimes have we might on both the two⁠— This is to say, on soul and body eke, And sometimes be we suffer’d for to seek Upon a man, and do his soul unrest And not his body, and all is for the best, When he withstandeth our temptatión, It is a cause of his salvatión, Albeit that it was not our intent He should be safe, but that we would him hent. 2204 And sometimes be we servants unto man, As to the archbishop Saint Dunstan, And to th’ apostle servant eke was I.” “Yet tell me,” quoth this Sompnour, “faithfully, Make ye you newë bodies thus alway Of th’ elements?” The fiend answered, “Nay: Sometimes we feign, and sometimes we arise With deadë bodies, in full sundry wise, And speak as reas’nably, and fair, and well, As to the Pythoness