Give I thy body and my pan also.” And when the devil heard her cursë so Upon her knees, he said in this mannére; “Now, Mabily, mine owen mother dear, Is this your will in earnest that ye say?” “The devil,” quoth she, “so fetch him ere he dey, 2242 And pan and all, but 2243 he will him repent.” “Nay, oldë stoat, 2244 that is not mine intent,” Quoth this Sompnour, “for to repentë me For any thing that I have had of thee; I would I had thy smock and every cloth.” “Now, brother,” quoth the devil, “be not wroth; Thy body and this pan be mine by right. Thou shalt with me to hellë yet tonight, Where thou shalt knowen of our privity 2245 More than a master of divinity.”

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