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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Michel, Dan, of Northgate, fl. 1340.

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Morris, Richard, 1833-1894., Gradon, Pamela.

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London: Oxford University Press

1965

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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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/Ayenbite. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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ÞE EȜTENDE GODES HESTE.

Þe eȝtende heste / is þellich. "Þou ne sselt zigge / none ualse wytnesse / aye þine emcristen."

Ine þise heste / ous ys uorbode / þet we ne lyeȝe / ne ous uorzuerie; ne ine dome / ne wyþoute dome / uor to do harmi þine emcristen . and þet me ne lede nenne in wytnesse / uor to ampayri his guode los. oþer his grace / þet he heþ / uor þet is dyadlich zenne. To-ayens þise heste doþ þo / þet misziggeþ guode men / behinde ham / be hire wytinde. and by kueadnesse. þet me clepeþ / þe zenne of detraccion . and þo also / þet herieþ þe kueade / and hire dedes / of hire kueadnesse / and of hire folies ywyte / oþer yzoȝe / oþer yherd . þet is zenne of blondingge / oþer of lozengerie / huanne me hit zayþ to uore ham. oþer ualshede / oþer lyesinges / huanne he þet me spekþ of / ne is naȝt present. vor alle þos byeþ ualse wytnesses.