Stained glass inscription — two six-line verses
Subjects: inscriptions, in glass; gluttony; lechery; hell
Versification: —
six-line —
aabccb aabccb
1.Source: Liverpool, Walker Gallery. Stained glass panel; provenance unknown; probably early sixteenth century.
Transcription:Here are we sette
In vally wette
On padoks felle
For
glotonnes
And dronkenes
To fede in hell
Mid flame and
fyre
And sufferyng dyre
In stinkyng welle
For lechery
And
trechery
Be we in hell.
Editions: Hebgin-Barnes, Penny.
The medieval stained glass of Lancashire.
Oxford; New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2009: 156-8.