Note 4 — Front matter
Reading edition
What could be more vivid than the story of the old hermit who prayed God that he might see the demons, and would not be denied; “and God opened his eyes, and he saw them, for just like bees do they surround man, grating their teeth over him.”—“Verba Seniorum,” lib. vi., libel. i., c. 11 (“Vitæ Patrum,” ii.).