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

                                
                                  And yhit þogh alle þe askes of þair bodys
                                
                                  War strew[d] and skaterd in sere partys,
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                                  Thurgh ilka land and ilka cuntré,
                                
                                  Þai sal þan togyder alle gader[d] be.
                                
                                  And ilka body sal rise þan halely,
                                
                                  With alle þe lyms, þat falles til þe body,
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                                  And with alle þe hare of body and hede
                                
                                  Swa þat na hare sal want in na stede;
                                
                                  For þare sal na hare be peryste,
                                
                                  Als Saynt Luk says þe Evaungeli[s]tte:
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                                    Capillus de capite,
                                  
                                    vestro non peribit.
                                  
                                  "Na hare sal perishe, ne faile", says he,
                                
                                  "Þat falles on þe heved for to be."
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                                  And if any lyms be here unsemely,
                                
                                  Thurgh outragiousté of kynd namely,
                                
                                  God sal abate þat outrage, thurgh myght,
                                
                                  And make þa lyms semely to sight;
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                                  And if any lym wanted, þat shuld falle
                                
                                  Til þe body, or any war over smalle,
                                
                                  Thurgh þe defaut here of kynd God þan wille
                                
                                  Alle þe defautes of þe lyms fulfille,
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                                  And þus sal he do namly, to al þa
                                
                                  Þat sal be save and til blis ga.
                                
                                  For þair bodys sal be semely and bright
                                
                                  With avenand lymes til alle mens sight.
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                                  Bot God sal amend on nane wise
                                
                                  Defautes of þe lyms of synful bodys,
                                
                                  For þair bodys sal alle unsemely be,
                                
                                  And foul, and ugly [The MS. has 'ungly'.] , opon to se.
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                                  Alle þat er gude þan and rightwyse,
                                
                                  Þat sal be save, sal first upryse,
                                
                                  And up in-to þe ayre be ravyste,
                                
                                  Againe þe comyng of Ihesu Criste,
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                                  To kepe him when he doun sal come,
                                
                                  Als domesman for to sitte in dome.
                                
                                  Þe mast parfite men sal Criste first kepe
                                
                                  And alle cum with hym in his felawshepe,

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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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