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 April 29, 2025.

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ÞE PERIL OF SLACNESSE.

Efterward / comþ slacnesse / þet comþ / of þe de- faute / of herte and of kueade wone. þet bint zuo þane man / þet onneaþe / he him yefþ / to done wel. oþerhuil hit comþ / of onconnyndehede: and of fole hete. huerby þe man / op let zuo his herte / and his body / be uestinges. and be wakinges. and by oþre dedes. zuo þet he ualþ ine fyeblesse / and ine zuiche ziknesse: þet he ne may naȝt trauayly / ine godes seruice. and to-ualþ ine þa slacnesse / þet he ne heþ smak / ne deuocion / wel to done. Efterward / comþ werihede / þet makeþ þane man / weri / and worsi / uram daye / to daye / al-huet he is / al recreyd / and defayled. And þis is / þe zixte vice / of þe kueade sergonte. þet he fayleþ / er þan he come / to þe ende / oþer to his terme. And me kan zigge: huo þet serueþ / and naȝt uol-serueþ: his ssepe / he lyest.