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| To Avert Temptation |
| If the demon approaches And gently beseeches Your custom and favor, And offers you silver Or gold for your weakness, Or feasts of great sweetness, Or beauty past wasting, Or love everlating, Or pleasures unending, To buy your unbending, Cut from a tangle Of thorns a long bramble, Twist it around To a ring on the ground, Pretend you would enter, Then spit in its center, And turn back his harm By repeating this charm: DUMUS DIABOLO! ILLIGO ILLICO! |