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

                                
                                  Our Lord Crist, thurgh his grete myght,
                                
                                  Sal þan com doun fra heven bright,
                                
                                  Als domesman to sit in dome,
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                                  And with him grete multitude sal come
                                
                                  Of angels, and of archangels,
                                
                                  And of al other halghes, als þe buk teles:
                                
                                    Ecce Dominus veniet et
                                  
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                                    omnes sancti eius cum eo.
                                  
                                  "Lo! our Lord sal com til þe dome
                                
                                  And alle his halghes sal with him come."
                                
                                  And sodanly he sal hym þan shewe,
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                                  Als says þe godspeller Saynt Mathewe:
                                
                                    "Sicut fulgur exiit ab oriente,
                                  
                                    et paret in occidente, ita erit
                                  
                                    adventus filii hominis, subitus,
                                  
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                                    choruschans, et terribilis."
                                  
                                  "Als þe levenyng out gas in short tyde
                                
                                  Fra þe est, and shewes it in þe west syde,
                                
                                  Right swa þe commyng of man son sal be,
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                                  Sodayne and bright and dreful to se.
                                
                                  He sal com doun, nathyng sal him lett,
                                
                                  Even onence [ageyns (MS. Y.).]  þe mount of Olyvet,
                                
                                  Whar he, in manhed, stey [stied (MS. Y.).]  up even
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                                  Fra his disciples, til þe fader in heven;
                                
                                  And in swilk fourme als he stey up þan,
                                
                                  He sal com doun to deme ilk man,
                                
                                  Gude and ille, bathe yong and alde,
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                                  Als þe angels til his disciples talde:
                                
                                    Hic Ihesus qui assumptus est a nobis
                                  
                                    in celum, sic veniet et quemadmodum
                                  
                                    vidistis eum euntem in celum.
                                  
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                                  Þai sayd "Ihesu Crist þat here es uptane
                                
                                  Fra yhow, til heven, with flessch and bane,
                                
                                  Swa sal he com at þe world ende,
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                                  Als yhe saw hym up in-til heven wende;
                                
                                  In þat fourme of man he sal cum þan,
                                
                                  And sitte in dome als domesman.

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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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