leg.—How long will a soul remain in Purgatory for every particular sin? I cannot tell: you will know when you get there, and you will neither suffer the less nor get out the sooner for having been an Admiral.—At the Day of Judgement there will be souls in Purgatory who will not have been there their full time: how will their account be settled? The intensity of their sufferings may compensate for its brevity: they will have condensed and quintessential torments.
One division of the work consists of questions in physics, another of moral points, another of riddles. The Admiral enquires how many intestines (tripas) a man has, and what is the use of each, . . a question which the Friar says is of very dirty discussion, es may suzio pla- ticar, and he remarks upon this occasion,
Lo que puedo ymaginar
es que estavades purgando,
y alli estavades pensando
si avria que preguntar.
