Note 655 — Chapter X · HAPPY ENGLAND

In the mediæval Story of Asenath, the Angel who describes himself as “Prince of the House of God and Captain of His Host,” and was thus presumably Michael, says to Asenath; “Look within thine Aumbrey, and thou shall find withal to furnish thy table”. Then she hastened thereto and found “a store of Virgin honey, white as snow of sweetest savour”. The archangel tells Asenath that “all whom Penitence bringeth before Him shall eat of this honey gathered by the bees of Paradise, from the dew of the roses of Heaven, and those who eat thereof shall never see death but shall live for evermore.”—Aucassin and Nicolette and other Mediæval Romances, p. 209 (Everyman’s Library).