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And , talking of the devil , Holy Clerk , are you not afraid that he may pay you a visit during some of your uncanonical pastimes ? '' `` I uncanonical ! '' answered the hermit ; `` I scorn the charge -- I scorn it with my heels ! -- I serve the duty of my chapel duly and truly -- Two masses daily , morning and evening , primes , noons , and vespers , ` aves , credos , paters ' -- '' `` Excepting moonlight nights , when the venison is in season , '' said his guest . `` ` Exceptis excipiendis ' '' replied the hermit , `` as our old abbot taught me to say , when impertinent laymen should ask me if I kept every punctilio of mine order . '' `` True , holy father , '' said the knight ; `` but the devil is apt to keep an eye on such exceptions ; he goes about , thou knowest , like a roaring lion . '' `` Let him roar here if he dares , '' said the friar ; `` a touch of my cord will make him roar as loud as the tongs of St Dunstan himself did .