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.
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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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ÞE MYȜTE OF PREDE.

Þis zenne of prede / ys to dreduol. uor hi ablent men. zuo þet hi ham-zelve / ne knaweþ / ne ne zyeþ. þet is þe wel strang / and þe wel special ald / to þe dyeule / huer-of he be-gyleþ / þe heȝe men / and þe uayre / and þe riche / and þe wyse / and þe hardi / and þe worþuolle. And generalliche / ech manere of uolk. ac specialliche / þe greate lhordes / zuo þet hy ham zelue / ne knawyþ / ne yzeþ / hire misdedes / ne hire folies / ne hire wyttes. þanne is. hit / þe meste periluse ziknesse / þet is of oþren. Vor-zoþe / he is ine grat peril / to huam /

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alle triacle / went in to uenym. Also deþ techinge / and chastisement / to þe proude. Vor þe more / þet me him wyþnimþ / and blameþ / and chasteþ: þe more / he him wreþeþ. and þe more him wereþ.

Prede / is þe dyeules oȝe doȝter / þet heþ / grat del / ine his kende. Prede werreþ wyþ god / of his guode. and god / þrauþ doun prede / and werreþ wiþ him. Prede / is king / of wyckede þeawes. Hy is þe lioun / [typographic Fol. 4. b.] þet al uorzuelþ. Prede astruþ / alle þe guodes / an alle þe graces / and alle þe guode workes / þet byeþ ine manne. Vor prede / makeþ of elmesse / zenne. and of uirtues / vices. and of guode workes / huer-of me ssolde begge heuene: makeþ wynne helle.

Þis zenne / is þe uerste / þet asayleþ / þane kniȝt / oure Lhord / and huan [huam?] last let. Vor huanne he heþ / alle oþre kuedes ouercome: þanne him asayleþ prede / þe stranglaker.

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