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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: was the King's jester. There was Latin writ at the back.
'"What a plague conjuration's here?" said Hugh, turning it
over. "Pum-quum-sum oc-occ. Magic?"
'"Black Magic," said the Clerk of Netherfield (he had been a
monk at Battle). "They say Rahere is more of a priest than a fool
and more of a wizard than either. Here's Rahere's name writ, and
there's Rahere's red cockscomb mark drawn below for such as
cannot read." He looked slyly at me.
'"Then read it," said I, "and show thy learning." He was a
vain little man, and he gave it us after much mouthing.
'"The charm, which I think is from Virgilius the Sorcerer,
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