Tharfor apon gret hardyment He suddanly set his entent, And gert all wyde set vp the [gh]et, 185 And the fyre that he fand tharat With strinth of men he put avay.
It doth beget and comfort like Heavens eye, And like hells fyre it burnes eternally.
The nimble fyre which in thy braynes doth dwell Is it thefyre of heaven or that of hell?
Whether that theis abhominationis, namit by the pestilent Papistis, religioun, whiche thay by fyre and sweard defend, be the trew religioun of Christ Jesus or not?
Immediatlie after dennar, the fyre was prepaired befoir the Ald Colledge,[53] and he led to the place of executioun.
And tharefoir we wold counsall yow and thame, to provide bettir defenses then fyre and sweard; for it may be that ellis ye wilbe disapointed: men now have other eyes then thei had than.
The fyre was slow, and thairfoir was his torment the more.
The unprovedeid people war all together amased; for brycht day appearing, thei saw ane army of ten thowsand men; thare cornes and howssis[214] upoun every syd send flambes of fyre unto the heavin.
The forrow[213] goes furth, fyre ryses, herschip mycht have bein sein on everie syd.
This gryme fyre I fear nott; and so I pray yow for to do, yf that any persecutioun come unto yow for the wordis saik; and nott to fear thame that slay the body, and afterwarte have no power to slay the saule.
And tharefoir, albeit that now a fyre cumes out frome hir, that consumes many, lett no man wonder, she is Goddis hand, in his displeasur punishing our formare ingratitude.
When all this was done and said, my Lord Cardinall caused his tormentares[428] to pas agane with the meke lambe unto the Castell, untill such tyme the fyre was maid reddy.
Nor saynt Antony is nat withowt hys weapenes for he hathe holy fyrewith hym.
If that cold water wyll hele the paynes in the hede and stomake, than wyll oyle put owtefyre from hensforthe.
And he shall be punyshed infyre and brymstone before the holy angells, and before the Lambe.
And makes a long Speech, shewing his Bulls and his Reliques, in order to sell his Pardons for the raising some Money towards the rebuilding, Of the holy Chappell of sweet saynt Leonarde, Which late by fyre was destroyed and marde.
A dolefulle syght the knyghte gane see Of his wyfe and his childir three, That fro the fyre were flede; Alle als nakede als thay were borne Stode togedir undir a thorne, Braydede owte of thaire bedd.
At last Gyb up the stayers, among the old postes and pinnes, And Hodge he hied him after, till broke were both his shinnes; 25 Cursyng and swering othes were never of his makyng, That Gyb wold fyre the house if that shee were not taken.
Again att ye council fyre ye spirit dogg strode from ye darkness & said itt was time.
He made ye watter-side to ring with his heavy voise & from his eyes came flames offyre & clouds from out his mouth.
And when they are casten into the fyre they crake wonderfully.
The precipitation is thus described:-- 329 wæron tha befeallene fyre to botme on tha hatan hell thurh hygeleaste and thurh ofermetto.
Anciently the Salopian was proverbial for sharp shins, as recorded by Leland and others: I am of Shropshire, my shinnes be sharpe: Ley wode to the fyre and dresse me my harpe.
On the other side they make a fyre accordinge to the lengthe of the bodye of the tree, sauinge at both the endes.
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