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Title:  Thus endeth the prologue of this book named. Cordʻyal. Whiche treteth of the four last and final thinges that ben to come ...
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heremite dyed by a sekenesse / & yet after his deth his sowle was restored ageyn to his body. Also Seint Gregory saith. that ther was somtime a monk borne of Irelond called piers / this monk affermed how he had seen ye greuous tormētes of hell / the innumerable peinful places & flame of fire. & tolde how he had seyn there certeyn mighty men of this world honged vp in the saide flames. And he seide as he was brought for to be cast in: sodenly appered an angel clothed al in white / which saued hym and hade him go thens and attentifly to remembre how he shulde liue from thens forthward to kepe him out of the danger of the peines. After that he had herde that voice he reuiued and came to hym self litel and litel / and shewed vnto his bre¦thren ther all the thingis yt he had feled & seen. and from that day forthward he vsed & liued a blessid lif in fasting & doyng penaunce / so yt by his conusacion after it myght wel seme the paynes of hell ar to be dred. The secūd condicion encreasing the paynes of hell is ye multipliyng of the tour¦mentes there. In certeyn̄ they be innumiable. And as the psalter saith. The paines / whiche be without nombre haue enuiround & be clipped me. It is writen in deutronomy the xxxij chapitre. I shal assemble many diuerse paynes vpon them / & I shal accomplish or spend the schot of myn̄ arowes in them. and as it is writen in Isaye ye v chapitre His arowes be ful sharp & all his bowes ar bent. our lorde hath many arowes in his quiuer / which̄ he hath not yet shot forth / but after the Iugement he shal smyte all sinners with them. Thies arowes ar the diuerse paines of hell where as sinners shal be then̄ tormēted in many mans. the 0