208. _grintinge_, gnashing; cf. Matt. xiii. 42, xxv. 30.

209. _nosethirles_, nostrils. This seems to be taken from Jerome; for

Hampole, in his Pricke of Conscience, l. 6677, says:--

'Of this Saynt Ierom, the haly man,

Says thus, als I here shewe yhow can:

_Ibi est ignis inextinguibilis, et fetor intollerabilis_.'

_Isaye_, Isaiah. The reference is to the Vulgate version of Isaiah, xxiv.

9:--'amara erit potio bibentibus illam.' But I may remark, [452] that the

corresponding passage in Hampole's Pricke of Conscience refers us, at l.

6770, to Job xx. 16; and that the word 'gall' occurs in Job xx. 14.

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