642. Moreover, they thought that they would be immune from such punishment as others suffer, because, as they suppose, they could betake themselves into the more subtle nature and so lie hidden in secret; but nevertheless they were frustrated. Not only were they sent beneath the veil, but they were also conglutinated like the beggars, and thus deprived of all license; and the more they wanted to release themselves or cut themselves free from each other, the more closely were they bound together. This punishment to them is a torture all the more intense because it answers to their secret poisons.