—— "breakers of the lawe, sothe to saine,
And lickerous folke, after that they been dede
Shall whirle about the world, alway in paine
Till many a world be passed."[379:F]
The same doctrine is taught in that once popular and curious old work The Shepherd's Calendar, which so frequently issued from the presses of Wynkyn De Worde, Pynson, and Julian Notary. Among the torments of the damned, the first enumerated
——— "is fire so hote to rekenne
That no manere of thynge may slekenne,
The secunde is colde as seith some
That no hete of fire may over come;"
and Lazarus, describing the punishment of the Envious, says,—"I have seen in hell a flood frozen as ice, wherein the envious men and women were plunged unto the navel; and then suddenly came over them a right cold and a great wind, that grieved and pained them right sore, and when they would evite and eschew the wonderful blasts of the wind, they plunged into water with great shouts and cries, lamentable to hear[380:A];" and again in the eighteenth chapter of the same work, it is related, as the reward of them that keep the ten commandments of the Devil, that