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

                                
                                  Alswa devels sal accuse þam þar
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                                  Of alle þair syns, bathe les and mar.
                                
                                  And of þa syns þat þai sal out-say,
                                
                                  Til whilk þai egged þam, bathe nyght and day,
                                
                                  And of þas þai sal þam þar accuse,
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                                  Als a thefe his felaghe of theft duse,
                                
                                  Þat hym accuses of þe same thyng
                                
                                  Þat he with hym did thurgh his eggyng;
                                
                                  Þe devels at þe dome sal be redy,
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                                  Þat to tempte men here ay er bysy;
                                
                                  And þai write alle syns, bathe les and mar,
                                
                                  Of whylk þai may accuse þam þar,
                                
                                  And alle syns þai sal reherce þan,
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                                  And þar-for þus says Iob, þe halyman:
                                
                                    Scribis Domine contra me amaritudines,
                                  
                                    id est, permittis scribi contra me peccata amara.
                                  
                                  "Loverd, þou suffers here", says he,
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                                  "Be writen bitter syns ogaynes me."
                                
                                  Aungeles alswa, als we here clerkes say,
                                
                                  Sal accuse þe synful men at þat day,
                                
                                  For God þat til þam þair sauls touke,
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                                  For to kepe here als says þe buke,
                                
                                  Sal aske of þam, at his comyng,
                                
                                  Acount to yhelde of þair kepyng;
                                
                                  Þan sal þe aungels answere þar-to,
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                                  And say þus, "our rede þai wald noght do
                                
                                  Bot agayne our wille foly þai wald use",
                                
                                  Þus sal aungels þe synful accuse.
                                
                                  Alswa haythen men, als says þe buke,
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                                  Þat never baptem ne right trouthe tuke,
                                
                                  Als Iewes and Sarzyns and Paens,
                                
                                  Þat wate noght what Criestes law bymens,
                                
                                  Sal þan accuse als men sal se,
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                                  Þe fals cristen þat dampned sal be,
                                
                                  For þe haythen men at þat grete assys
                                
                                  Sal þan be halden als men rightwys,
                                
                                  To regard of þe fals cristen men
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                                  Þat wald noght kepe þe comandmentes ten.

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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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