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.
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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 28, 2025.

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ÞE iiij. BOȜ OF PREDE.

Þe uerþe boȝ of prede / is fole wylninge. þet me clepeþ / ine clergie : ambicion. þet is / kuead wilninge

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heȝe to cliue. Þis zenne / is þe dyeules panne / of helle. huerinne / he makeþ his sriinges. Þes boȝ him spret / ine uele manyeres / ariȝthalf / and alefthalf. Vor þe ilke / þet wylneþ / heȝe to cliue: to zome / ha wyle queme. and þerof wexeþ / uele zennes: ase ariȝthalf. þet is to wytene: lozengerie. simulacion. folliche yeue : uor þet me ssel him hyealde / corteys / and large. To oþren / ha wyle harmy. and þerof comþ þe zenne / a- lefthalf. ase to miszigge / to ham / þet he wyle harmi: him uor to anheȝi. and him arereþ blame / and wylneþ / þane dyaþ / of þan / þet halt / þet he wenþ come to / and bezuykynges. and euel red; conspiracions. strif. and uele oþre zennes / þet wexeþ / of þise queade boȝe.

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