The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.

                                
                                  In his tyme sal be swylk tribulacion
                                
                                  And swa mykel parsecucion,
                                
                                  Þat unnethes any sal dur graunt
                                
                                  Þat he es cristen, and God servant.
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                                  For mare parsecucion sal be þan,
                                
                                  Þan ever was sythen þe world bygan.
                                
                                  Anticrist es, þos mykel at say,
                                
                                  Als he þat es ogayn Crist ay.
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                                  Þan may ilk man be cald by skille
                                
                                  Anticrist þat dos ogayn Goddes wille.
                                
                                  Þan may alle þas anticristes be calde,
                                
                                  Þat ogaynes Goddes laghe will halde.
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                                  Bot ma[n]y swilk men may wele knawe
                                
                                  Þat mykel dus ogayns Goddes lawe. [Be many skill we may some knaweÞat mekille dose agayne Goddes lawe. (MS. Harl. 6923.)
] 
                                
                                  Bot anticrist, als says haly writ,
                                
                                  Sal com at þe last, þat com noght yhitt,
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                                  Als mast tyraunt with-outen pyté,
                                
                                  Þat ever was or ever sal be.
                                
                                  Wharfor I hald þir gret mysdoers
                                
                                  Als anticrist lyms and his forgangers.
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                                  Now wha-swa wille a whyle duelle
                                
                                  Aparty here I wille hym telle
                                
                                  Of þe maner of anticrist bygynnyng,
                                
                                  And of his lif and of hys endyng.
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                                  He sal be geten, als clerkes shew can,
                                
                                  Bytwen a synful man and a woman,
                                
                                  And aftir þat he consayved sal be
                                
                                  Þe fende sal entre, thurgh his pousté,
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                                  With-in his moder wambe sone;
                                
                                  Þus, sais a grete clerke, sal be done
                                
                                  Thurgh was myght he sal be forth-broght;
                                
                                  And wonders thurgh hym sal be wroght.
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                                  He sal be cald þe child þat es lorn;
                                
                                  And in Corozaym he sal be born
                                
                                  Of a woman of þe kynred of San [Dane (MS. Harl. 6923) = of the tribe of Dan.] ;
                                
                                  Bot cristendome sal he have nan.

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Title: The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.
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Publication: Berlin :: Published for the Philological Society by A. Asher,; 1863.

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