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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Author

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 7, 2025.

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AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Aye þe uondingges of þe dyeule : zay þis þet uolȝeþ. "Zuete iesu þin holy blod / þet þou sseddest ane þe rod / ur me and uor mankende: Ich bidde þe hit by my sseld / auoreye þe wycked uend: al to mi lyues ende . zuo by hit."

Þis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate / y-write an englis of his oȝene hand. þet hatte : Ayenbyte of inwyt. And is of þe bochouse of saynt Austines of Canterberi . mid þe lettres : C : C

                  
                    Holy archangle Michael.
                  
                    Saynt gabriel . and Raphael. 
                  
                    Ye brenge me to þo castel. 
                  
                    Þer alle zaulen vareþ wel.

Lhord ihesu almiȝti kyng . þet madest / and lokest alle þyng. Me þet am þi makying: to þine blisse me þou bryng. Amen.

Blind . and dyaf . and alsuo domb. Of zeuenty yer al uol rond. Ne ssolle by draȝe to þe grond: Vor peny / uor Mark / ne uor pond.