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

                                
                                  "Þe fir byfor hym, on sere partys,
                                
                                  Sal ga and about brine his enemys;"
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                                  Þat fire mens bodys to askes sal brin,
                                
                                  And þe world and alle þat es þar-ine;
                                
                                  Þus sal þe fire first byfor come,
                                
                                  Ar Crist com doun til þe dome.
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                                  And when þe fire has wasted, als I talde,
                                
                                  Þan sal al men ryse, bathe yhong and alde,
                                
                                  Out of þair graves with saul and body,
                                
                                  And come til þe dome þan alle halely
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                                  And our Loverd Crist sal com doun þan,
                                
                                  And sit in dome, als domes man,
                                
                                  And deme þan, bathe gude and ille,
                                
                                  Als yhe may aftir-ward here, if yhe wille;
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                                  And yhit þe fire alle þat tyde
                                
                                  Sal brin obout hym, on ilka syde,
                                
                                  Als þe prophete David bers wytnes
                                
                                  In þe Psauter, þar þus writen es:
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                                    "Ignis, in conspectu eius, exardescet,
                                  
                                    et incircuitu eius tempestas valida."
                                  
                                  "Þe fyre sal brin in his sight," says he,
                                
                                  And obout hym grete tempest sal be."
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                                  And als lang als þat dome sal last
                                
                                  Þe fire sal brin, on ilk syde fast;
                                
                                  And when þe dome es broght til ende,
                                
                                  Þa þat sal be dampned sal wende,
                                  Line 4944 
                                
                                  With alle þe fire þat swa sal brin,
                                
                                  Til helle pytt, and duelle ay þar-in.
                                
                                  Þan sal alle þe fire be sweped doune
                                
                                  In-til helle, with alkyn corrupcioune,
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                                  And alle þe filth of þe world, neshe and hard,
                                
                                  Als in þis bok es writen aftirward.
                                
                                  Þus thurgh alle þe world þe fire4sal brin,
                                
                                  And clense it of al manere of syn,
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                                  And of alle corrupcions, bath hegh and, law
                                
                                  Þat men may now se, here, and knaw;
                                
                                  And when þe fire has wasted al erdly thyng,
                                
                                  Þan sal þe hevens sees of movyng.

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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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