pains of that they endure. As we may consider that if an
hundred persons had every of them one foot and one hand in
the fire, or in the water seething without power to die,
what _bruit_ and what cry they should make; but that should
be less than nothing in comparison of devils and of other
damned, for they ben more than an hundred thousand
thousands, the which all together unto them doeth
_noysaunce_, and all in one thunder crying and braying
horribly."--_Thordynary of Crysten Men_, 1506, 4to., k k.
ii., rect. Again: from a French work written "for the
amusement of all worthy ladies and gentlemen:"

De la flamme tousiours esprise
De feu denfer qui point ne brise
De busches nest point actise
Ne de soufflemens embrase
Le feu denfer, mais est de Dieu
Cree pour estre en celuy lieu
Des le premier commencement
Sans jamais pendre finement
Illec nya point de clarte
Mais de tenebres obscurte
De peine infinie durte
De miseres eternite
Pleur et estraignement de dens
Chascun membre aura la dedans
Tourmmens selon ce qua forfait
La peine respondra au fait,
&c. &c. &c.

_Le passe tempe de tout home, et de toute femme_;
sign. q. ii., rev.

Printed by Verard in 8vo., without date: (from a copy,
printed upon vellum, in the possession of John Lewis
Goldsmyd, Esq.)--The next extract is from a book which was
written to amuse and instruct the common people: being
called by Warton a "universal magazine of every article of
salutary and useful knowledge." _Hist. Engl. Poetry_: vol.
ii., 195.

In hell is great mourning
Great trouble of crying
Of thunder noises roaring
with plenty of wild fire
Beating with great strokes like guns
with a great frost in water runs
And after a bitter wind comes
which goeth through the souls with ire
There is both thirst and hunger
fiends with hooks putteth their flesh asunder
They fight and curse and each on other wonder
with the fight of the devils dreadable
There is shame and confusion
Rumour of conscience for evil living
They curse themself with great crying