And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
And manye of þem þat sueden curiouse thingis, brouyten togidere bookis, and brenneden hem bifor alle men; and whanne þe prices of tho weren acountid, þei founden monei of fifti thousynd pens;