Incipit prologus aparitoris [on leaf 106, back]
This Somnour in his stirep hihe stode
Vpon þis frere his hert was so wode
þat like an haspen lef he quoke for ire
Lordeinges quod he bot o þinge .I. desire
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.I. ȝowe be-seche þat of ȝoure curtesie
Seþ ȝe haue herd þis fals frere lye
As suffreþ me .I. maie a tale tell [folio 107a]
This frere bosteþ þat he knoweþ hell
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As god wote þat is litel wonder
Freres and fendes ben bot litel in sunder
For parde ȝe haue oft time herd tell
How þat a frere rauisshed was in hell
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In spiret ones be a visione
And as Angel led him vp and downe
To schewen him þe peynes þat þere were
In al þe place sawe he nouȝt a frere
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Of oþer folke he sawe y-nowe in woo
Vnto þis Angel spak þe frere þoo
Now sir quod he haue freres suche grace
þat none of hem schal com in-to þis place
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ȝis quod þis Aungel mony a melione
And vn-to Sathanas he had him adoune
And now haþ Sathanas saiþ he taile
Bradder þan of þ[e] Carrik is þe seile
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Holde vp þi taile þu Sathanas quod he
Schewe forþe þin erse and let þe frere se
Where is þe nest of freres in þis place
And ar þat halue a forlonge waie of space
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