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

                                
                                    Tymor mortis totam animam sibi vendicat,
                                  
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                                    ut nec de peccatis tunc libeat cogitare.
                                  
                                  Þe drede of þe ded when it flayes a man,
                                
                                  Chalanges al þe saul tyl it þan;
                                
                                  Swa þat hym liste þan haf na thoght
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                                  Of his synnes þat he here has wroght.
                                
                                  Þan folowes þat man na wys rede
                                
                                  Þat abydes þe commyng of þe dede,
                                
                                  And hastes hym noght to clense hym sone
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                                  Of al his syns þat [he] has done;
                                
                                  For when þe dede comes til a man
                                
                                  It es over late to bygyn þan;
                                
                                  Bot I rede a man he amend hym here,
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                                  Or þe dede come, or his messangere; [The MS. reads mensangere.] 
                                
                                  For if he wille swa byfor be war.
                                
                                  Þe dede þan wele les drede hym þar;
                                
                                  His messangere may be called sekenes,
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                                  Þat comes byfor als ofte felled es;
                                
                                  For sekenes ofte a man swa pynes
                                
                                  Þat thurgh þat payn hys mynd he tynes,
                                
                                  For he may þan thynk on noght elles
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                                  Bot of þe payn þat with hym duelles.
                                
                                  Bot when þe ded comes aftirward
                                
                                  And hym byhoves fele mare hard,
                                
                                  Þan sal he be in swylk drede sette,
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                                  Þat he sal God and hymself forget,
                                
                                  And þat es skylle for he wil noght,
                                
                                  Whyles he has hele, haf God in thoght,
                                
                                  Þarfor he sal þan his mynde tyne
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                                  And þarfor þus says Saynt Austyne:
                                
                                    Hac animaversione percutitur
                                  
                                    peccator, ut moriens obliviscatur
                                  
                                    sui, qui dum viveret oblitus
                                  
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                                    est Dei.
                                  
                                  "Þe synful", he says, als es writen,
                                
                                  "With pyne of þe dede es smyten,
                                
                                  Þat he thurgh payn þat him byhoves drighe,
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                                  Hym-self forgetis when he sal dighe,

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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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