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 29, 2025.

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STRENGÞE.

Þe uirtue of strengþe / heþ alsuo þri offices. Vor huo þet þise uirtue heþ : he him a-rereþ an heȝ a-boue þe perils þet byeþ ine þe wordle. No þing him ne dret / bote vileynie.

Aduerseté / and prosperité / he berþ / and þoleþ wyþ-oute wepinge. ne ariȝthalf ne alefthalf. Wel ssolde he by guod knyȝt / þet ine þise þri þinges were wel y-proued. Þise þri uirtues armenþ / an ordayneþ. and agrayþeþ man / ase to þri deles of þe herte / þet me cliepeþ [MS. chepeþ] scele. loue. and strengþe. Prudence / lokeþ þane scele [MS. sclele] / þet hi ne bi becaȝt. Temperance / lokeþ þane loue / þet hi ne by amerd. Strengþe. lokeþ þet wyl: þet hi ne by ouercome.