He looks into a crystal which he says he brought with him from the East, and swears he sees strange sights there, pictures of woe such as have not been since the beginning of the world.

Of this woe he preaches to the folk of Dunwich, warning them of judgment to come, and they listen affrighted because they know him to be a holy man who has a gift from God.

Yet he says that you and I, Eve, need fear nothing.

May it be so, Hugh .-- E." Now when he had thought awhile and hidden up Eve's letter, Hugh turned to his father and asked him what were these sermons that Sir Andrew preached.
"I heard but one of them, son," answered Master de Cressi, "though there have been three.

By the Holy Mother! it frightened me so much that I needed no more of that medicine.