and keep them by thee; they be profitable and
necessary for medicines. And when he had done so he roasted of the fish,
and took it with them for to eat by the way, and the remnant they
salted, that it might suffice them till they came into the city of
Rages. Then Tobias demanded of the angel and said: I pray thee, Azarias,
brother, to tell me whereto these be good that thou hast bidden me keep.
And the angel answered and said: If thou take a little of his heart and
put it on the coals, the smoke and fume thereof driveth away all manner
kind of devils, be it from man or from woman, in such wise that he shall
no more come to them. And Tobias said: Where wilt thou that we shall
abide? And he answered and said: Hereby is a man named Raguel, a man
nigh to thy kindred and tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, he
hath neither son ne daughter more than her. Thou shalt owe all his
substance, for thee behoveth to take her to thy wife. Then Toby answered
and said: I have heard say that she hath been given to seven men, and
they be dead, and I have heard that a devil slayeth them. I dread
therefore that it might hap so to me, and I that am an only son to my
father and mother, I should depose their old age with heaviness and
sorrow to hell. Then Raphael the angel said to him: Hear me, and I shall
show thee wherewith thou mayst prevail against that devil; these that
took their wedlock in such wise that they exclude God from them and
their mind, the devil hath power upon them. Thou therefore when thou
shalt take a wife, and enterest into her cubicle, be thou continent by
the space of three days from her, and thou shalt do nothing but be in
prayers with her: and that same night put the heart of the fish on the
fire, and that shall put away the devil, and after the third night thou
shalt take the virgin with dread of God, that thou mayst follow the
blessing of Abraham in his seed. Then they went and entered into
Raguel's house, and Raguel received them joyously, and Raguel, beholding
well Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is this young man unto my
cousin! And when he had so said he asked them: Whence be ye, young men
my brethren? And they said: Of the tribe of Nephthalim, of the captivity
of Nineveh. Raguel said to them: Know ye Tobit my brother? Which said:
We know him well. When Raguel had spoken much good of him, the angel
said to Raguel: Tobit of whom thou demandest is father of this young
man. And then went Raguel, and wit