. Folio 93v of British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ii, showing a Middle English translation of Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii, organized in octosyllabic couplets. The first lines of the left column read (see p. 52, line 333 ff.): The deueles wolde hem not spare, To [d]o hem peyne þey thowȝte yare. Th[e] deueles speke to Syr Owayne, 'Knyȝth, wylt þou ȝet turne agayne, And we wyll yn a lytull stownde Brynge þe vp hole and sownde; And þer may þou lyfe a good whyle, Bothe wyth gamen and wyth gyle. (This is from the third torment or the 1st field of torment where souls are nailed face-dow
. Folio 93v of British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ii, showing a Middle English translation of Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii, organized in octosyllabic couplets. The first lines of the left column read (see p. 52, line 333 ff.): The deueles wolde hem not spare, To [d]o hem peyne þey thowȝte yare. Th[e] deueles speke to Syr Owayne, 'Knyȝth, wylt þou ȝet turne agayne, And we wyll yn a lytull stownde Brynge þe vp hole and sownde; And þer may þou lyfe a good whyle, Bothe wyth gamen and wyth gyle. (This is from the third torment or the 1st field of torment where souls are nailed face-down.) British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ii Folio 93v
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