"Of a young man and his lemman," from The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville, 1887.

From The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville, 1887.

From Das Kloster, Weltlich und Geistlich by J. Scheible, 1845.

From The Voiage and Travaile of Sir J. Maundevile, 1839.

The central figure is perhaps wondering, "So it's snakes, wings, and fire on the one side, and what's the other side promising again?"  From The New England Primer by Heman Humphrey, 1830.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From De Vulnere Cerebri Non Semper et Absolute Lethali by Daniel Sigmund Gottlieb Behrens, 1733.

Winking at the devil, from Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

From The Lamentable Vision of the Devoted Hermit, 1813.

From Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, 1882.

From Danicorum Monumentorum Libri Sex by Ole Worm, 1643.

From Danicorum Monumentorum Libri Sex by Ole Worm, 1643.

From La Morale Merveilleuse by P. Christian, 1844.

From Histoire d'Angleterre by Prudence Guillaume de Roujoux, 1844.

From The Condition of Nations, Social and Political, 1880.

From Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

This is as good an explanation of the weather as we've heard from any meteorologist.  From Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.