title: The Temptation of Our Lord and Savior Christ by Satan
title_page_title: A brefe Comedy or enterlude concernynge the temptacyon of our lorde and sauer Iesus Christ, by Sathan in the desart. ... Iesus was led from thens of the sprete into the wyldernes, to be tempted of the deuyll. And whan he had fasted fourty dayes and fourty nyghtes, he was at last an hungered. Mathei iiij.
title_page_author: Compyled by Iohan Bale, Anno M. D. XXXVIII.
title_page_performance: [in single column, centered above others] Interlocutores. [in double columns] Iesus Christus.  Satan tentator. | Angelus primus.  Angelus alter. [in single column, centered below others] Baleus Prolocutor.
paratext_charachter_list: on title page [A1r]
stationer_additional_notes: Although the play is complete (π1 D-E<sup>4</sup>), only a portion of the book is preserved; presumably eleven leaves are missing, which may have contained another play. Greg calls the title-page woodcut an ornament (<i>Bibliography</i>, 1:98), but Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram describe it as an illustration in <i>A Guide to English Illustrated Books, 1536-1603</i> (Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998), 1:47. 
transcript_modern_spelling: A brief comedy or interlude concerning the temptation of our lord and savior jesus christ by satan in the desert. compiled by john bale anno MDXXXVIII jesus was led from thence of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was at last an hungered mathei IIII interlocutores iesus christus satan tentator angelus primus angelus alter baleus prolocutor