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qui est appelle abisme et terre de perdition. Autant vous
dy je de celui lieu quil est plain de feu et dardant souf
fre. Et est trop hydeulx et puant et plain dordure et de
toute male adventure. Il est moult large en dedens
et par embas est estroit. Tout che qui chiet la dedens
font en une heure. Le souffre qui continuellement art
et font destruit consume et ard tout. Ne ja riens
ny aura finement quil ne arde tousjours sans fin
Tousjours ard ades et tousjours renaist et ne poent
nullement morir tout che que ladedens est mis. Car ce
lieu est de nature que quant plus ard et plus dure lon
guement. Che lieu denfer a en lui tous les maulz et
de sa partie. Illec la mort tient son estandart qui
envoie par tout le monde querre ceulx qui siens sont
qui quen ait joie ne tritesses. laiens viennent tous
les mauvaiz appors. Cel lieu a nom terre de mort
Car les ames qui laendroit sont portees y demeurent
a tousjours sans fin. Certes toutes y meurent en
vivant. et tousjours vivent en morant. La mort
si est leur mort et leur viande. La mort les tient
ades en son commandement. Cest le droit estang du

that is called the pit and the land of perdition.
And so I tell you of this place, that it is full of fire and
burning sulpher. It is very hideous and stinking, full of filth
and all bad things. In one hour, anything that falls into it
will be melted by the the sulpher that burns continually
and melts, destroys, consumes, and burns everything.
Nor will this ever have an end, for the fire burns endlessly and forever.
Everything (see note) put into hell burns forever and is reborn
forever and can never die. For this place is of such
a nature that the more something burns, the longer it lasts.
In this place of hell are all the evils and those that belong to them.
Here death maintains his standard, that he
sends through the whole world to look for those
who are his, whether they meet it with joy or sadness.
All evil things are brought there. This place is named the
land of the dead, for the souls that are brought to that place
dwell there forever. For surely they all die while living,
and forever live while dying. Death is their
death and their sustenance. Death holds them
wholly under his command. It is the pit of

qui est appelle abisme et terre de perdition. Autant vous
dy je de celui lieu quil est plain de feu et dardant souf
fre. Et est trop hydeulx et puant et plain dordure et de
toute male adventure. Il est moult large en dedens
et par embas est estroit. Tout che qui chiet la dedens
font en une heure. Le souffre qui continuellement art
et font destruit consume et ard tout. Ne ja riens
ny aura finement quil ne arde tousjours sans fin
Tousjours ard ades et tousjours renaist et ne poent
nullement morir tout che que ladedens est mis. Car ce
lieu est de nature que quant plus ard et plus dure lon
guement. Che lieu denfer a en lui tous les maulz et
de sa partie. Illec la mort tient son estandart qui
envoie par tout le monde querre ceulx qui siens sont
qui quen ait joie ne tritesses. laiens viennent tous
les mauvaiz appors. Cel lieu a nom terre de mort
Car les ames qui laendroit sont portees y demeurent
a tousjours sans fin. Certes toutes y meurent en
vivant. et tousjours vivent en morant. La mort
si est leur mort et leur viande. La mort les tient
ades en son commandement. Cest le droit estang du

that is called the pit and the land of perdition.
And so I tell you of this place, that it is full of fire and of
burning sulpher. It is very hideous and stinking, full of filth
and all bad things. Everything that falls into it, in
an hour makes the sulpher which burns continually
and destroys, consumes, and burns everything. Nor will
anything have an end, for it burns endlessly and forever.
Everything put into hell burns forever and is reborn
forever and can never die. For this place is of such
a nature that the more it burns, the longer it lasts.
In this place of hell are all the evils and those that belong to them.
Here death maintains his standard, that he
sends through the whole world to look for those
who are his, whether they meet it with joy or sadness.
All evil things are brought there. This place is named the
land of the dead, for the souls that are brought to that place
dwell there forever. For surely all die while living,
and forever live while dying. Death is their
death and their sustenance. Death holds them
wholly under his command. It is the pit of