CCC. Lord of Bavaria

Comte de Gabalis [1913], at sacred-texts.com

LORD OF BAVARIA.

CCC"Sabine in his comment on the I oth of Ovid's Metamorphoses, at the tale of Orpheus, telleth us of a gentleman of Bavaria, that for many months together bewailed the loss of his dear wife; at length the Devil in her habit came and comforted him, and told him, because he was so importunate for her, that she would come and live with him again, on that condition he would be new married, never swear and blaspheme as he used formerly to do; for if he did, she should be gone: he vowed it, married, and lived with her, she brought him children, and governed his house, but was still pale and sad, and so continued, till one day falling out with him, he fell a swearing; she vanished thereupon, and was never after seen. This I have heard, saith Sabine, from persons of good credit, which told me that the Duke of Bavaria did tell it for a certainty to the Duke of Saxony."

ROBERT BURTON, "THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY." YORK LIBRARY EDITION, VOL. iii, PAGE 51.