A Source Book of Mediæval History / Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance

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'Take him and chain him,

Then cast him into hell to be burnt,

Then in a chain of seventy cubits bind him:

For he believed not in God, the Great,

Nor urged to feed the poor;

Therefore he shall not have here this day a friend,

Nor any food save filth

Which none but the sinners shall eat.'

When the Calamity shall come to pass