_Vit un déable saer desus Le tresor, noir et hidus._--Life of S. Edward, l. 944. [Illustration: _No. 35. The Demon of the Treasure._] An early illuminator, in a manuscript preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge (MS. Trin. Col., B x. 2), has left us a pictorial representation of this scene, from which I copy his notion of the form of the demon in cut No. 35. The general idea is evidently taken from the figure of the goat, and the relationship between the demon and the classical satyr is very evident. [24] "Formam quandam villosam, hispidam, et hirsutam, adeoque enormiter deformem." Girald. Camb., Itiner. Camb., lib. i. c. 5. Ugliness was an essential characteristic of the demons, and, moreover, their features have usually a mirthful cast, as though they greatly enjoyed their occupation. There is a mediæval story of a young monk, who was sacristan to an abbey, and had the directions of the building and ornamentation. The carvers of stone were making admirable representations of hell and paradise, in the former of which the demons "seemed to take great delight in well tormenting their victims"-- _Qui par semblant se delitoit En ce que bien les tormentoit._ The sacristan, who watched the sculptors every day, was at last moved by pious zeal to try and imitate them, and he set to work to make a devil himself, with such success, that his fiend was so black and ugly that nobody could look at it without terror. _Tant qu'un déable à fere emprist; Si i mist sa poine et sa cure, Que la forme fu si oscure Et si laide, que cil doutast Que entre deus oilz l'esgardast._ The sacristan, encouraged by his success--for it must be understood that his art was a sudden inspiration (as he had not been an artist before)--continued his work till it was completed, and then "it was so horrible and so ugly, that all who saw it affirmed upon their oaths that they had never seen so ugly a figure either in sculpture or in painting, or one which had so repulsive an appearance, or a devil which was a better likeness than the one this monk had made for them"-- _Si horribles fu et si lez, Que trestouz cels que le véoient Seur leur serement afermoient C'onques mès si laide figure, Ne en taille ne en peinture, N'avoient à nul jor véue, Qui si éust laide véue, Ne déable miex contrefet Que cil moines leur avoit fet._--Meon's Fabliaux, tom. ii. p. 414.