CCCLXXXVI.
Infernalis pena est magnitudinis inestimabilis MS. inextinguibilis, Lat. MSS. as above..

We rede in 'Vitis Patrum' how on̛ a tyme as Macharius went in wyldernes he fand̛ a dead mans head̛, and he had grete mervayƚƚ whose it was. And he commandid̛ it to spek & teƚƚ hym̛, & so it Page  266 did̛, and sayd̛ it was a prestes head̛ þat was a gentyle, þat was vncristend̛. And he askid̛ it whar̛ þe saule þer-of was in payn̛. And it ansswerd̛ agayn̛ & sayd̛ þat it was in heƚƚ, als depe as is fro hevyn̛ vnto erthe, & he said̛ þat it was als depe vnder-nethe hym̛. And þer he sayd̛ wer fals cristen̛ men̛. And a noder tale like þis tellis Saynt Gregur in his 'Dialoggis' of a grete man̛ þat hyght Reperatus; and on̛ a tyme he was kepyd̛ as dead̛ & sodanly turnyd̛ vnto life agayn̛. & he tellid̛ how þat he had sene a grete kyngdom̛ and it was aƚƚ coverd̛ ouer; and hym̛ thoght þe heght þer-of was als hy as is fro hevyn̛ vnto ertℏ.