spear of the king, let a child come fetch it, our Lord shall reward to every man after his justice and faith.  Our Lord hath this day brought thee into my hands, and yet I would not lay mine hand on him that is anointed of our Lord.  And like as thy soul is magnified this day in my sight, so be my soul magnified in the sight of God and deliver me from all anguish.  Saul said then to David:  Blessed be thou, my son David.  And David went then his way, and Saul returned home again.

And David said in his heart:  Sometime it might hap to me to fall and come into the hands of Saul, it is better I flee from him and save me in the land of the Philistines.  And he went thence with six hundred men and came to Achish king of Gath and dwelled there.  And when Saul understood that he was with Achish he ceased to seek him.  And Achish delivered to David a town to dwell in named Ziklag.

After this the Philistines gathered and assembled much people against Israel.  And Saul assembled all Israel and came upon Gilboa; and when Saul saw all the host of the Philistines, his heart dreaded and fainted sore, he cried for to have counsel of our Lord.  And our Lord answered him not, ne by swevens ne by priests, ne by prophets.  Then said Saul to his servants:  Fetch to me a woman having a phiton, otherwise called a phitoness or a witch.  And they said that there was such a woman in Endor.  Saul then changed his habit and clothing, and did on other clothing, and went, and two men with him, and came to the woman by night, and made her by her craft to raise Samuel.  And Samuel said to Saul:  Why hast thou put me from my rest, for to arise?  And Saul said:  I am coarted [constrained] thereto, for the Philistines fight against me, and God is gone from me, and will not hear me, neither by prophets, ne by swevens [dreams].  And Samuel said:  What askest thou of me when God is gone from thee and gone unto David?  God shall do to thee as he hath said to thee by me, and shall cut thy realm from thine hand, and shall give it thy neighbor David.  For thou hast not obeyed his voice, ne hast not done his commandment in Amalek; therefore thou shalt lose the battle and Israel shall be overthrown.  To-morrow thou and thy children shall be with me, and our Lord shall suffer the children of Israel to fall in the hands of the Philistines.  Anon then Saul fell down to the earth.  The words of Samuel made him afeard and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread of all that day, he was greatly troubled.  Then the phitoness desired him to eat, and she slew a paschal lamb that she had, and dighted and set it tofore him, and bread.  And when he had eaten he walked with his servants all that night.  And on the morn the Philistines assailed Saul and them of Israel, and fought a great battle, and the men of Israel fled from the face of the Philistines, and many of them were slain in the mount of Gilboa.  The Philistines smote in against Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan and Abinadab, and Melchi-shua, sons of