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

                                
                                  And þe filthe and alle þe stynk
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                                  Of alle þe werld þan sal synk
                                
                                  Doun with þam in-til þe pitte of helle,
                                
                                  To eke þair sorow þat þar sal duelle.
                                
                                  Bot þe ryghtwys men, als pe buke bers wytnes
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                                  Sal wende til blisse, whar lyfe es endeles,
                                
                                  With our loverd and hys aungels ilkane
                                
                                  Shynand brighter þan ever son shane.
                                
                                  Now have yhe herd, als es contende
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                                  In þis fift part, how þe werld sal ende,
                                
                                  And how Crist, at his last commyng,
                                
                                  Sal in dome sitte and discusse alle thyng.
                                
                                  Here may a man read þat has tome,
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                                  A large proces of þe day of dome,
                                
                                  Þat a lang tyme aftir I haf redde
                                
                                  Suld contene by skille, ar alle war spedde;
                                
                                  Bot ye sal understand and witte,
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                                  Als men may se in haly writte,
                                
                                  Þat thurgh þe wysedom and þe vertu,
                                
                                  And þe myght of our Lord Ihesu,
                                
                                  Alle þe processe þat sal be þat day,
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                                  Of whilk any clerk can speke or say,
                                
                                  Sal þan swa shortely be sped and sone,
                                
                                  Þat alle sal be in a moment done.
                                
                                  A moment es als of a tyme bygynnyng,
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                                  Als short als an eghe twynkelyng.
                                
                                  A grete wondir may þis be kyd,
                                
                                  Omang alle wondirs þat ever God dyd,
                                
                                  Þat in swa short tyme at his commyng,
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                                  He mught deme and discusse al thyng;
                                
                                  Bot of þis suld nane muse, lered ne lewed,
                                
                                  For als grete wordirs [wondirs (MS. Harl. 1964).]  has God shewed;
                                
                                  Als grete a wonder es when he wroght,
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                                  With a short worde, alle þe world of noght,
                                
                                  And of þis þe prophete bers wittnes,
                                
                                  Þat says þus, als it wryten es:

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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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