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qui autant dure cest assavoir six moix tout entiers
luisans beaulx et clers. Ung aultre lieu a en yllan
de. lequel ard nuit et jour et est appelle le purgato
re saint patrice. Che lieu est tant perilleux que se
aulcunes gens y vont qui ne soient bien confes et
tres repentans de leurs pechies ilz sont tantost raviz et
perduz si que one ne scet que ilz deviennent. Et se de ces
pechies il est confes et repentant et quil ait fait vraie
et deue penitanche de ses pechies en accomplissant sa
tisfaction et vraie contrition. dautant quil aura plus
pechie sans en estre de tous poins nettoie de tant lui
seront plus griefz les tourmens en passant celui com
munel passaige. Et quant il est retourne arriere de
celui purgatoir jamais pares che ne lui plaira cho
se que il voie ne regarde en che monde. ne pour quelque
chose quil lui adviengne ne sera veu rire. Ainchois
sera continuellement en pleurs et en gemissemens
pour les grans et enormes pechies et oultraiges que
chascun jour il voit faire aux ungs et aux aultres
En celle ysle a une moult grant montaigne de souf
fre qui ard incessanment nuit et jour En britaigne

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which lasts just as long, that is to say six months,
shining beautiful and clear. There is another place
in Ireland that burns both night and day, and it is
called the purgatory of Saint Patrick. This place
is so dangerous that if any people should go there who
are not well-confessed and repentant of their sins,
they will immediately be taken away and lost,
in such a manner that no one will know what has become
of them. And even if a person is confessed of his sins and
repentant and has done true and owed
penitence for those sins, performing recompense and having
true contrition, if he sins again without being
cleansed in every regard, the torments he
suffers as he undergoes this journey, which is common to all,
will be all the more grievous. And when he has returned
from this purgatory, nothing he sees in this world
will ever please him again, nor will he ever wish to
laugh at anything he might come upon. Rather
he will weep and shudder continually on account of
the great sins and outrages that he sees are done to others
every day. On this island there is a very high mountain
of suffering that burns ceaselessly night and day. In Britain,

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qui autant dure cest assavoir six moix tout entiers
luisans beaulx et clers. Ung aultre lieu a en yllan
de. lequel ard nuit et jour et est appelle le purgato
re saint patrice. Che lieu est tant perilleux que se
aulcunes gens y vont qui ne soient bien confes et
tres repentans de leurs pechies ilz sont tantost raviz et
perduz si que one ne scet que ilz deviennent. Et se de ces
pechies il est confes et repentant et quil ait fait vraie
et deue penitanche de ses pechies en accomplissant sa
tisfaction et vraie contrition. dautant quil aura plus
pechie sans en estre de tous poins nettoie de tant lui
seront plus griefz les tourmens en passant celui com
munel passaige. Et quant il est retourne arriere de
celui purgatoir jamais pares che ne lui plaira cho
se que il voie ne regarde en che monde. ne pour quelque
chose quil lui adviengne ne sera veu rire. Ainchois
sera continuellement en pleurs et en gemissemens
pour les grans et enormes pechies et oultraiges que
chascun jour il voit faire aux ungs et aux aultres
En celle ysle a une moult grant montaigne de souf
fre qui ard incessanment nuit et jour En britaigne

67

which lasts just as long, that is to say six months,
shining beautiful and clear. There is another place
in Ireland which burns night and day, and it is
called the purgatory of Saint Patrick. This place
is so dangerous that if any people should go there who
are not well-confessed and repentant of their sins,
they will immediately be taken away and lost,
in such a manner that no one will know what becomes
of them. And even if he is confessed of his sins and
repentant, and if he has done true and owed
penitence of his sins, fulfilling satisfaction and
true contrition, if he has sinned again without being
cleansed in every regard, the torments he
suffers as he undergoes this journey, which is common to all,
will be all the more grievous. And when he has returned
from this purgatory, nothing he sees in this world
will ever please him again, nor will he ever wish to
laugh at anything he might come across. Rather
he will weep and shudder continually on account of
the great sins and outrages that he sees others do
every day. In this island there is a very high mountain
of suffering that burns ceaselessly night and day. In Britain,