“Chapiters seven it had, of Heven, and Hell, And Earthe, and soules that therein do dwell.”

Then follow the popular legends which were current in Dante’s age; an age when the end of all things was thought to be near at hand, and the wonders of the invisible world had laid fast hold on the imaginations of men. Prominent among these is the “Vision of Frate Alberico,” who calls himself “the humblest servant of the servants of the Lord”; and who

“Saw in dreame at point-devyse

Heaven, Earthe, Hell, and Paradyse.”

“Saw in dreame at point-devyse Heaven, Earthe, Hell, and Paradyse.”