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 14, 2025.

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ÞE ZENNEN AYE ÞE HOLY GOST.

And þou sselt ywyte / þet þer byeþ zix zennes / þet byeþ specialliche / ayens þe holy gost. þet is to wy- tene / ouerweninge. þet makeþ to moche sprede / þe merci of our lhorde / and litel prayzeþ / his riȝtuolnesse. and þeruore / zeneȝeþ moche uolk / ine hope. Þe oþer is / wanhope: þet benimeþ god / his merci / as ouerweninge: his riȝtuolnesse. Þe þridde is / wyþstondinge. þet is / hardnesse of herte. huanne man / is y-hert / ine his kueadnesse / Þet me ne may / him wende / and naȝt ne wyle / hym amendi. Þe uerþe is / onworþhede / of penonce. Þet is huanne man / ordayneþ ine his herte / þet he / him ne ssel naȝt uorþenche / his zenne. Þe vifte is / to werri þe grace / of þe holy gost : ine oþren. Þe zixte is / to werri zoþnesse / be his wytinde / and specialliche / þe zoþnesse / of þe cristine beleaue. Alle þise zennes / byeþ aye þe guodnesse : of þe holy gost. and byeþ / zuo greate / þet onneaþe / comeþ to riȝte uorþenchinge. and þeruore / byeþ hy / onneaþe uoryeue.