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

                                
                                  And Ierusalem, on þe other syde,
                                
                                  Þat standes imyddes þe world so wyde;
                                
                                  And þar es þe mount of calvery,
                                
                                  And þe sepulcre of Crist fast þarby.
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                                  And in þat cuntré standes Bethleem,
                                
                                  Noght ful ferre fra Ierusalem;
                                
                                  Þar-for Crist sal sytte þar þat day,
                                
                                  Onence þe myddes of erth þus for to say.
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                                  "Lo! here als yhe may alle now se
                                
                                  Þe vale of Iosaphat under me
                                
                                  Whare byred was my moder Mary
                                
                                  Of wham flesshe and blode for yhow tok I."
                                  Line 5196 
                                
                                  He may say "lo! here, als yhe se now,
                                
                                  Bethleem whare I was born for yhow,
                                
                                  And in clotes lapped and layd was
                                
                                  In a cribbe, bytwen an ox and an asse."
                                  Line 5200 
                                
                                  He may say "lo here yhe may se stande
                                
                                  Ierusalem, þat es nere hande
                                
                                  Whare I had for yhow many buffet,
                                
                                  And with sharp skourges sare was bette,
                                  Line 5204 
                                
                                  And fra whethen þe crosse for yhow I bare,
                                
                                  Þat on my shulder was layd þare."
                                
                                  He may say also "lo! here þarby,
                                
                                  Als yhe may se, þe mount of calvery
                                  Line 5208 
                                
                                  Whar I was hanged upon þe rode,
                                
                                  Bytwen twa thefes for yhour gode;
                                
                                  Whare my payn for yhow was mast
                                
                                  And whare I swelt and yhelded þe gast."
                                  Line 5212 
                                
                                  He may say yhit þus alswa;
                                
                                  "Lo! here þe sepulcre a lytil þar-fra,
                                
                                  Whar I was layde for yhow als dede,
                                
                                  When I was beryd in þat stede."
                                  Line 5216 
                                
                                  He may say alswa, als here es sett,
                                
                                  "Lo! here þe mount of Olivett,
                                
                                  Whar aungels appered in mens lykenes,
                                
                                  When I stey til [h]even þar blis ay es,
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                                  And tald yhow how my commyng shuld be
                                
                                  Tyl þe dome, als yhe may now se."

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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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