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 May 24, 2025.

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ÞE TOKNEN OF ÞE HEAUEDEN OF ÞE BESTE.

[typographic Fol. 4. a.]

Þe zeue heauedes / of þe beste of helle: byeþ þe zeuen hauedliche zennes. be huichen / þe dyeuel draȝþ to him / ase al þe wordle. Vor onneaþe yualþ / þet me ne ualþ / in-to þe þrote / of zome: of þe zeue heauedes. And þeruore / zayþ wel saynt Ion: þet hit hedde miȝte / a-ye þe halȝen. vor in erþe / ne ys zuo holi man : þet moȝe / parfitliche be-uly / alle þe maneres of zenne. þet of þise heuedes zeuen comeþ / wyþ-oute special priuilege of grace / alse hit wes / ine þe mayde Marie / oþer ine zome oþren / be special grace / þet he hedde of god. Þe ten hornes of þe beste / betokneþ / þe geltes of þe ten hestes / of our lhorde / þet þe dieuel purchaceþ / also moche ase may / by þe zeuen / beuore yzed zennen. Þe ten corounes aboue / betokneþ / þe ouercominge / þet hit heþ aboue / alle zenuolle / uor þet / he deþ his agelte / ine þe ten hestes.