“O Christ, by your five wounds, by the nine orders of angels, if this
woman is ordained for me, let me hold her hand now, and breathe her
breath. O my love, I set a charm to the top of your head; to the sole
of your foot; to each side of your breast, that you may not leave me
nor forsake me. As a foal after the mare, as a child after the mother,
may you follow and stay with me till death comes to part us asunder.
AMEN.”
_Another._
A charm of most desperate love, to be written with a raven’s quill in
the blood of the ring finger of the left hand.
“By the power that Christ brought from heaven, mayest thou love me,
woman! As the sun follows its course, mayest thou follow me. As light
to the eye, as bread to the hungry, as joy to the heart, may thy
presence be with me, O woman that I love, till death comes to part us
asunder.”