It it well worth transcribing also as exhibiting the saint’s creed, his belief in contemporary superstitions and attitude towards them, his piety and poetic gift. In all probability we have here a very fair representation of the gist of his teaching. Like the authors of the Vedic hymns, and the votaries of all primitive religions, he invokes the powers of nature, a phase of the religious spirit which seems to have fallen devotionally in abeyance in modern times. What strikes our age perhaps as more curious and superstitious, he prays for protection against the spells of women, smiths, and Druids, like any good heathen. I[14] bind myself to-day to a strong virtue, an invocation of (the) Trinity. I believe in a Threeness with confession of an Oneness in (the) Creator of (the) Universe. I bind myself to-day to the virtue of Christ’s birth with his baptism, To the virtue of his crucifixion with his burial, To the virtue of his resurrection with his ascension, To the virtue of his coming to the Judgment of Doom. I bind myself to-day to the virtue of ranks of Cherubim, In obedience of angels, (In service of archangels), In hope of resurrection for reward, In prayers of patriarchs, In predictions of prophets, In preachings of apostles, In faiths of confessors, In innocence of holy virgins, In deeds of righteous men. I bind myself to-day to the virtue of Heaven, In light of sun, In brightness of snow, In splendour of fire, In speed of lightning, In swiftness of wind, In depth of sea, In stability of earth, In compactness of rock. I bind myself to-day to God’s virtue to pilot me, God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me, God’s eye to look before me, God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak for me, God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie before me, God’s shield to protect me, God’s host to secure me, Against snares of demons, Against seductions of vices, Against lusts (?) of nature, Against every one who wishes ill to me, Afar and anear, Alone and in a multitude, So have I invoked all these virtues between me (and these) Against every cruel, merciless power which may come, against my body and my soul, Against incantations of false prophets. Against black laws of heathenry, Against false laws of heretics, Against craft of idolatry, Against spells of women, and smiths, and Druids, Against every knowledge that defiles men’s souls, Christ to protect me to-day. Against poison, against burning, against drowning, against death wound, Until a multitude of rewards come to me! Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me! Christ below me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in breadth, Christ in length, Christ in height! Christ in the heart of every one who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks to me,