ȝut heo nome bitterliche . & ferþere him ladde,
Heo harleden him forþ, . & loude ȝolle and gradde.
A gret hous he seiȝ stonde, : long and brod inow;
þe stench & hete, þt þer out com, . him þouȝte almest him slow.
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He wiþ stod, & nolde is þonkes . vor stench go no ner.
Vorþ þu schalt, þe deuelen seide, . þu ne schalt abiden her;
A baþ it is þat þu sist, . þer inne þou schalt beo
And baþie mid oþere þere, . þou ne schalt not vleo.
þe gostes þat þer inne were, . deofoliche heo criede
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And loude, as he herde, . abouten in eche side.
þe kniȝt mid deueles . into þis hous com.
Of tormen þat he þer seiȝ . gret ȝeme he nom;
Vor vol of puttes & of diches . þt hous wiþ inne was,
And al fol of tormens, . empti non þer nas:
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He weren fol of well(i)nge led, . and of brimston, [Ms. wellnge st. wellinge.] [folio 124]
Of bras, and of oþer tormens, . berninge euer vchon.
Wrecche gostes þer inne he seiȝ, . turmens tilde so heiȝe: [heiȝe mit unorgan. h, vgl. v. 322.]
Somme al aboue þe heued, . & somme to þe heiȝe,
Somme to þe nese, somme to þe mouþ, . & summe to þe swere,
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And somme to þe brestes, . heo bouȝten here sunnes dere,
Somme to nauele, . and somme dounere more,
And somme to þe kneo, . heo crieden and wepten sore.
Now þou sist, þe deuelen seden, . whoder þou schalt gon,
Bote þou anoþer speke . & to vs torne anon.
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Heo casten him in a put; . on ihū anon he criede,
And com vp al sound, . him ne luste no leng abide.
þe fendes in grete wraþþe . harleden vorþere more [fehlt him nach harleden.]
And brouȝten him vpon agret hul, . ful of sorwe and sore.
He bi huld al aboute, . þo he com vp an heiȝ;
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Him wondrede of so fele gostes . þat he þer iseiȝe,
þat alle þat he seiȝ raþere . þer aȝen noȝt nere;
Vpe here ton heo seten i cluȝt, . & quakeden for fere.
In þe souþ half of þe hul . a dep water was & lowe,
þat voule stank & caldere was . þan ani ys oþer snowe;
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A norþere wind þer blew, . him þouȝte is vlesch rende. [fehlt þat vor him.]
Euere sete þe gostes . & aȝen þe wind hem wende,
And quakeden vaste . vor drede & pine stronge,
And abide as who seiȝ (!) time, . þe deþ vorte afonge.
Lo, quaþ a foul fend, . þu nost not what þis is;
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Bote þu þi þouȝt turne, . þu schalt wite iwis.
