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

                                
                                  Ne na halghe sal for þam pray.
                                
                                  Þis may be cald a ful harde day,
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                                  Forwhi þan, als þe buke bers witnes,
                                
                                  Sal noght be shewed bot rightwysnes,
                                
                                  And grete reddure, with-outen mercy,
                                
                                  Until alle synful men namely.
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                                  Þa þat of þair syn here wald noght stynt;
                                
                                  Þai sal þat day for ever be tynt
                                
                                  Fra God, with-outen any recoverere,
                                
                                  And delyverd be until þe devels powere.
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                                  Ful wa sal synful men be þat day,
                                
                                  And til helle pyne be put for ay,
                                
                                  And þarfor men may calle þat day,
                                
                                  Þe grete day of delyveraunce,
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                                  Þe day of wreke and of vengeaunce,
                                
                                  Þe day of wrethe and of wrechednes,
                                
                                  Þe day of bale and of bitternes,
                                
                                  Þe day of pleynyng and accusyng,
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                                  Þe day of answer and of strait rekkenyng,
                                
                                  Þe day of iugements and of Iuwys,
                                
                                  Þe day of angre and of angwys,
                                
                                  Þe day of drede and of tremblyng,
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                                  Þe day of gretyng and goulyng,
                                
                                  Þe day of crying and of duleful dyn,
                                
                                  Þe day of sorow þat never sal blyn,
                                
                                  Þe day of flaying and of af[r]ay,
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                                  Þe day of departyng fra God away,
                                
                                  Þe day of merryng and of myrk[n]es,
                                
                                  Þe day þat es last and þat mast es,
                                
                                  Þe dai when Crist sal make ende of alle;
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                                  Þus may man discryve þat day and calle.
                                
                                  Our loverd þat alle thyng can se and witt
                                
                                  At þe dredeful day of dome sal sitt,
                                
                                  Als kyng and rightwyse domesman,
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                                  In dome to deme alle þe werld þan,
                                
                                  Opon þe setil of his magesté.
                                
                                  Þat day sal alle men byfor hym be,

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Title: The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.
Canvas: Page 165
Publication: Berlin :: Published for the Philological Society by A. Asher,; 1863.

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