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| Keywords: British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ii Folio 93v.png 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 <poem> The deueles wolde hem not spare To do hem peyne þey thowÈ te yare The deueles speke to Syr Owayne 'KnyÈ th wylt þou È et 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 </poem> This is from the third torment or the 1st field of torment where souls are nailed face-down Scanned from plate facing p 34 out of Robert Easting St Patrick's Purgatory Oxford University Press 1991 ISBN 0-19-722300-1 between 1446 1460 according to Rickert see p xxvi for a discussion Author PD-old-100 St Patrick's Purgatory 15th-century manuscripts | ||||
