For dread of daunger, which it might portend:
Vntill the hardie Mayd (with loue to frend)
First entering, the dreadfull Mage there found
Deepe busied bout worke of wondrous end,
And writing strange characters in the ground,
With which the stubborn feends he to his seruice bound.
He nought was moued at their entrance bold: xv
For of their comming well he wist afore,
Yet list them bid their businesse to[909] vnfold,
As if ought in this world in secret store