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A knyȝt wes / þet zuor / be godes eȝen. an haste / his on eȝe / lhip ope þet cheker. An archer / uor þet he hedde ylore ate geme: nom his boȝe / and ssat an
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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"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 8, 2025.
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heȝ / a-ye god. Þane morȝen / huanne he zet / ate gemene : his arowe / vil ope þet cheker / al blody.
Þe verþe is / þe kueade uorbysne. þet he þet playþ : yefþ to oþren : þet y-zyeþ þet geme. Þe vifte / in lere of time / þet me ssolde be zette / ine guode workes. And manye oþre zennes: þet long þing / hit were to zigge. O þing / ich ne ssel naȝt uoryete. þet / þe ilke / þet wynþ: he ne may naȝt / ine guode manere ofhealde / þet he wynþ / ac ssel hit yeue uor godes loue. bote yef þet hit by / ine zuyche manere: þet he hit hedde / mid barat / oþer be strengþe. ase þe ilke / þet deþ þe oþren playe / be strengþe. Ine þet cas / he ssolde hit yelde to him / þet hit heþ ylore. Alsuo ich zigge: of þet me wynþ / ine tornement.
Þise byeþ þe boȝes / of auarice / ynoȝ þer byeþ oþre. Ac hy byeþ / more to clerekes: þanne to þe leawede. And þis boc / is more ymad / uor þe leawede: þanne uor þe clerkes / þet conneþ þe writinges.