soul, then must he put thereto remedy and counsel in the best manner that it may be done.
Then there shall be told unto him plainly the peril that he should fall in, though he should and would be greatly a-feared thereof. It is better and more rightful that he be compunctious and repentant, with wholesome fear and dread, and so be saved, than that he be damned with flattering and false dissimulation; for it is too inconvenient[1] and contrary to Christian religion, and too devil-like, that the peril of death and of soul — for any vain dread of a man, lest he were anything distroubled thereby — shall be hid from any Christian man or woman that should die. But Isaye the Prophet did the contrary; for when the King Ezcchiel lay sick and upxjn the point of death, he glosed[2] him not, nor used no dissimulation unto him, but plainly and wholesomely a-ghasted him,[3] saying that he should die; and yet nevertheless he died not at that time. And Saint Gregory also wholesomely a-ghasted the monk that was approprietary[4], as it is read in the fourth Book of his Dialogues.
Also present to the sick the image of the crucifix; the which should evermore be about sick men, or else the image of our Lady, or of some other saint the which he loved or worshipped in his heal. Also let there be holy water about the sick; and spring[5] often times upon him, and the others that be about him, that fiends may be voided from him.
