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 31, 2025.

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ÞE ÞRIDDE GODES HESTE.

Þe þridde heste / is þellich. "Loke / þet þou halȝi / þane day / of þe sabat; Zeterday," þet is to zigge . [typographic [Fol. 1. b.]] þou ne sselt do / ine þe daye / of þe sabat Zeterday / þine nyedes / ne þine workes / þet þou miȝt do / ine oþre dayes. Ac þou sselt þe resti / uor betere / þe yeme to bidde / and to servi þine ssepere / þet him restede / þane zeuende day / of workes / þet he hedde ymad ine þe zix dayes beuore . ine huichen he made the worlde / an ordaynede diȝte.. þis heste / uoluelþ gostliche / him þet lokeþ / be his miȝte : þe pays / of his inwyt / god uor to servi / more holylaker. þanne þis word / zeterday / þet þe iurie / clepeþ sabat . is ase moche worþ : ase reste.

Þis heste / ne may non loki gostliche: þet by ine inwyt / of dyadliche zenne . Vor zuich inwyt / ne may by ine reste / þer huyle / þet hi is / ine zuich stat. And ine þe stede / of þe sabat / þet wes straytliche y-loked / in þe yalde laȝe: zet holi cherche / þane sonday / to loky / ine þe newe laȝe . vor oure lhord / aros / uram dyaþe to lyue / þane zonday. An þeruore / me ssel hine loky / and ureþie / zo holyliche / and by ine reste / of workes / ope þe woke . and more of workes / of zenne . and yeue him more / to gostliche workes / and to godes seruise /, and þenche / ane his sseppere / and him bidde / and þonky / of his guode. And huo / þet brekþ þane zonday/ and þe oþre heȝe festes / þet byeþ y-zet to loky / ine holy cherche : zeneȝeþ dyadliche / uor he deþ / aye þe heste of god. to-uore yzed . and of holi cherche / bote yef hit by / uore zome nyede / þet holi cherche granteþ. Ac more zeneȝeþ / þe ilke / þet dispendeþ þane zonday / and þe festes ine zenne / and ine hordom / and in oþre zennes / aye god. Þise þri hestes / diȝteþ ous / to gode specialliche.