Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

chapter in Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. iii.; and see the charm

against rats in Political and Love Poems, ed. Furnivall, p. 23. I may add that, in Kemble's Solomon and Saturn, p. 136, is an A. S. poem, in which the Paternoster is _personified_, and destroys evil spirits. In Longfellow's Golden Legend, § II., Lucifer is made to say a _Black_ Paternoster.

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