Editing Classification of demons (section)

===''Lanterne of Light''===
In 1409–1410 ''The Lanterne of Light'' (an anonymous English [[Lollard]] tract often attributed to [[John Wycliffe]])<ref>Milford, Humphrey. "Introduction", [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AHA2749?rgn=main;view=toc ''The Lanterne of Liȝt'']. Oxford University Press, 1917</ref> provided a classification system based on the [[seven deadly sins]], known as the "seven deadly devils" or "seven princes of Hell", with each demon tempting people by means of those [[sin]]s, as follows:<ref>Anonymous, ''[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AHA2749/1:2.10?rgn=div2;view=fulltext The Lanterne of Liȝt]'', Humphrey Milford ed., (1917). Oxford University Press, p. 60; quote: "Þe firste is Lucifer/ þat regneþ in his malice.̉ ouer þe children of pride/ Þe secounde is clepid Belzebub.̉ þat lordiþ ouer envious/ Þe þridde deuel is Sathanas.̉ & wraþþe is his lordschip/ Þe fourþe is clepid Abadon.̉ þe slowȝ ben hise retenwe/ Þe fifþe deuel is Mammon.̉ & haþ wiþ him þe auarouse/ and also oone þat is his feere.̉ a foule synne couetise/ Þe sixte is clepid Belphegor.̉ þat is þe god of glotouns ‖ Þe seuenþ deuel is Asmodeus.̉ þat leediþ wiþ him þe leccherouse ‖"
*{{cite book |editor1=Lilian M. Swinburn |title= The Lanterne of Liȝt |trans-title=The Lanterne of Light |date=1917 |orig-date=Original manuscript {{circa|1400}} |page=60 |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AHA2749/1:2.10?rgn=div2;view=fulltext |id=Edited from ms. Harl. 2324 |publisher=Early English Text Society; K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.|others=[[John Wycliffe]] [attributed authorship]; digitised 2006 by the University of Michigan's Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse|language=enm }}</ref><ref name="MWBSDS">Morton W. Bloomfield, ''The Seven Deadly Sins'', Michigan State College Press, 1952, pp. 214–215.</ref><!-- THE NEXT CITATION HAS THE QUOTED TEXT, READ IT BEFORE CHANGING THE LIST -->

{{Verse translation|lang=enm|italicsoff=y
|Þe firste is Lucifer þat regneþ in his malice.̉ ouer þe children of pride
Þe secounde is clepid Belzebub.̉ þat lordiþ ouer envious
Þe þridde deuel is Sathanas.̉ & wraþþe is his lordschip
Þe fourþe is clepid Abadon.̉ þe slowȝ ben hise retenwe
Þe fifþe deuel is Mammon.̉ & haþ wiþ him þe auarouse
and also oone þat is his feere.̉ a foule synne couetise
Þe sixte is clepid Belphegor.̉ þat is þe god of glotouns
Þe seuenþ deuel is Asmodeus.̉ þat leediþ wiþ him þe leccherouse
|The first is Lucifer that reigns in his malice over the children of pride
The second is called Beelzebub that lords over [the] envious
The third is Satan and wrath is his lordship
The fourth is called Abaddon, the sloth[ful] be his retinue
The fifth is Mammon and has with him the avarice [avaricious]
and also fittingly, a foul sin, covetousness, is with his company of subjects
The sixth is called Belphegor, that is the god of gluttons
The seventh is Asmodeus, that leads with him the lecherous | attr1 =''The Lanterne of Light'' in original [[Middle English]], p. 60 | attr2 =Translation: Collette and Garrett-Goodyear<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collette |first1=Carolyn P. |last2=Garrett-Goodyear |first2=Harold |title=The later Middle Ages: A sourcebook |date=2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |isbn=9780230551367 |chapter=The Lanterne of Light}}</ref>}}
This list was later used in the works of [[John Taylor (poet)|John Taylor]], the Water Poet.<ref name="JTWJT">John Taylor, ''Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, Volume 2'', Spenser Society, 1873, p. 33</ref> Later writers, such as [[Peter Binsfeld]], assigned different demons to the respective sins and should not be confused with this list.<ref name="guiley" /><ref name="gettings" /> The two classification systems are shown side-by-side below:<!-- THE PREVIOUS CITATION HAS THE TEXT QUOTED, READ IT BEFORE CHANGING THE LIST -->

{{Verse translation|italicsoff=y|head1=''The Lanterne of Light''
|# [[Lucifer]]: Pride
# [[Beelzebub]]: Envy 
# [[Satan]]: Wrath
# [[Abaddon]]: Sloth
# [[Mammon]]: Greed 
# [[Belphegor]]: Gluttony
# [[Asmodeus]]: Lust
|head2=Binsfeld's classification
|# [[Lucifer]]: Pride
# [[Mammon]]: Greed 
# [[Asmodeus]]: Lust
# [[Leviathan]]: Envy
# [[Beelzebub]]: Gluttony 
# [[Satan]]: Wrath
# [[Belphegor]]: Sloth}}<!--Please don't change the order of the lists just so they line up side-by-side. They should stay in the order of their classification scheme to they belong.-->