31. RESPONSIO. Et magna quidem inquit. Únde chréftîg chád si. Quorum alia puto exerceri poenali acerbitate . alia uero purgatoria clementia. Téro íh súmelichíu uuéiz tréffen . áfter geríche ze uerlórníssedo . súmelicíu áfter gnâdôn ze erlíuterdo.
‘Certes,’ quod she, ‘ye; and that right greet; of which sowles,’ quod she, ‘I trowe that some ben tormented by asprenesse of peyne; and some sowles, I trowe, ben exercised by a purginge mekenesse.
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Book I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
