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

First hit telleþ how God made two worldes for man. (l. 962)
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Þat one is heven. Þat othere, þis dale . where In we buþ now lyv|yng. (l. 972)
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How God made two erthliche worldes þe more and þe lesse. (l. 1042)
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How God made þis world to be soget to man, and not man to be soget þerto. (l. 1055)
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How a man schuld not trist to þis world þat nys bot vanite. (l. 1088)
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How þe more world may be lickend to foure thinges. (l. 1211)
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Hit is ilikened to þe see. (l. 1213)
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Hit is ilickened to a wildernes þat is ful of wild bestes. (l. 1225)
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Hit is ilikened to a grete forest þat is ful of thefis. (l. 1235)
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Hit is ilikened to a feld ful of dyvers batailes. (l. 1245)
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How þe world fyȝtteþ aȝens us wiþ doumble hond. (l. 1257)
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Wiþ þe right hond and wiþ þe lift. (l. 1259)
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How he calleþ þe right hond welth and gret havyng of goodes. (l. 1261)
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And þe lyfte honde . angres and tenes þat ofte cometh to man. (l. 1262)
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Of two weyes þat buþ in þis world . þat one is þe wey of lif and þat oþere is þe wey of deþ. (l. 1398)
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Of þe variaunces of þis worlde. (l. 1412)
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How a man is ilikend to þe more world and he clepid þe lasse world (l. 1487). Of dyvers condiciouns þat toucheþ to a mannes lif. Of þe nyce degises þat men useþ in þis world. (l. 1516)
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Here bigynneþ þe chapitles of þe þrid partof þis boke, whiche telleþ of deþ and whi deþ is to drede.
First he telleþ of thre manners of deþ (l. 1680). Þe first is bodi|liche deþ (l. 1686). Þe secunde is gostly deþ (l. 1690)
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How a mannes soul may be slawe thurgh dedly syne (l. 1708). Þe thrid es endles deþ. How þat endles deþ is in helle (l. 1742)
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What thing deþ is (l. 1761)
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How he likeneþ deþ (l. 1808)
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How men schuld drede deþ for foure skilles (l. 1818)
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How deþ haþ no mercy of no man (l. 1864)
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How deþ is commune to alle men (l. 1895). How a philosophre dis|creveþ þe paynes of deþ (l. 1900). How dredful thyng deþ is (l. 1920)
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How no man knoweþ þe tyme of deþ when hit schal come and þe skile why (l. 1940)
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How sikenes is iclepid þe messanger of deþ (l. 2024)
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How God visiteþ us al day wiþ tokenes by whiche he warneþ us to be-ware (l. 2092)
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How þe fend apperid to Seint Bernard in þe tyme of his dyȝyng. (l. 2248)
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How griseliche þe fendes buþ of sight (l. 2300)
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How a mau schuld ever thynk on his last day for to fle synne (l. 2593)
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Here bigynneþ þe chapitles of þe iv. part of þis boke þat telleþ of purgatorie, wherein soules beþ iclansid of synne.
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The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.
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