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Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon.

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Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon.
Author
Michel, Dan, of Northgate, fl. 1340.
Editor
Morris, Richard, 1833-1894., Gradon, Pamela.
Publication
London: Oxford University Press
1965
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ÞE ZEUENDE GODES HESTE.

Þe zeuende heste / is þellich. "Þou ne sselt do / none þiefþe." Þis heste ous uorbyet / to nimene / and of-hyealde / oþre manne þing / huet þet hit by / be wyckede skele / aye þe wyl of him / þet hit oȝþ.

Ine þise heste is uorbode / roberie / þiefþe / stale / and gauel / and bargayn wyþ oþren / uor his oȝen to habbe. And þe ilke / þet deþ / aye þis heste: is yhyalde to yelde. þet he heþ / of oþre manne kueadliche / yef he wot to huam. And yef he not: he is yhyalde / to yeue hit uor godes loue. oþer / to done by þe rede of holi cherche. Vor he þet wyþhalt / oþre manne þing mid wrong / be kueade skele : zeneȝeþ dyadliche : bote

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yef he hit yelde / þer ha ssel / yef he hit wot / and moȝe hit do. oþer yef he ne deþ / by þe rede of holy cherche.

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