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

                                
                                  Our Lord yhit þan, or he com doun,
                                
                                  For to sytte in dome in proper parsoun,
                                
                                  Sal send byfor, als þe buke tels,
                                
                                  In four partys his angels,
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                                  With þair bemes þat þai sal blaw,
                                
                                  Þat alle þe world sal here and knaw;
                                
                                  Alle men þai sal þan upcalle
                                
                                  And byd þam cum til þe dome alle.
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                                  Alle men sal ryse þan þat ever had life,
                                
                                  Man and woman, mayden and wyfe,
                                
                                  Gude and ille, with fleshe and felle,
                                
                                  In body and saul, als clerkes can telle;
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                                  And þat in als short whyle als hert may thynk,
                                
                                  Or mans eghe may open or wynk,
                                
                                  Fra þe tyme þat þai þe son sal here,
                                
                                  For þe apostel says on þis manere:
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                                  "Omnes resurgent in momento, in
                                
                                    ictu oculi, in novissima tuba."
                                  
                                  He says "alle sal ryse in a tym movyng,
                                
                                  Als in þe space of an eghe twynklyng,
                                  Line 4976 
                                
                                  When þai here þe dredeful blast
                                
                                  Of þe beme, þat þan sal blaw last."
                                
                                  Alle men sal þan tite up-ryse
                                
                                  In þe same stature and þe same bodyse,
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                                  Þat þai had here in þair lifedays,
                                
                                  And in non other, als þe buk says.
                                
                                  Þan sal alle ryse in þe same eld þan,
                                
                                  Þat God had fully here als man,
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                                  Namly, when he uprayse thurgh myght
                                
                                  Fra dede, als says Saynt Austyn ryght;
                                
                                  Þan was he of threty yhere elde and twa,
                                
                                  And of thre monethes þar-with alswa;
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                                  In þat elde alle sal ryse at þe last,
                                
                                  When þai here þe grete bemes blast,
                                
                                  With þair awen bodys alle hale
                                
                                  And with alle þair lymes, grete and smale.
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                                  For alle-if þe bodys of ilk man
                                
                                  Shulde alle be brynned til askes þan,

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Title: The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.
Canvas: Page 135
Publication: Berlin :: Published for the Philological Society by A. Asher,; 1863.

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