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

                                
                                  Þat sight he sal se with gastly eghe
                                
                                  With payn of dede þat he most dreghe.
                                
                                  Here-of þe prophet Ieremy
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                                  Spekes þus in his prophecy:
                                
                                    Omnes inimici eius apprehenderunt
                                  
                                    eum inter angustias.
                                  
                                  He says: "omang his grete anguys
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                                  Hym þai sal tak al hys enmys."
                                
                                  Na vonder es if þe devels com þan
                                
                                  In þe ende obout a synful man,
                                
                                  For to flay hym and tempte and pyn,
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                                  When þe devel com to Saynt Martyn
                                
                                  In þe tyme of dede at his last day
                                
                                  Hym for to tempte and for to flay:
                                
                                  And in þe life of Saynt Bernard
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                                  We rede þat when he drogh til dedeward,
                                
                                  Þat þe devel þat es grisely and grym,
                                
                                  Til hym come and asked hym,
                                
                                  By what skille he wald, and bi [The MS. reads be.]  what ryght;
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                                  Chalange þe kyngdom of heven bright,
                                
                                  Þan answerd Bernard þus mekely,
                                
                                  And sayd: "I knaw þat I am unworthy,
                                
                                  Thurgh myn-awen desert, to haf it
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                                  When I sal out of þis world flit.
                                
                                  Bot my Lorde Ihesu Crist ful of myght,
                                
                                  Þat it has and weldes thurgh doble ryght,
                                
                                  Thurgh right of his faders heritage,
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                                  And alswa for our grete avauntage,
                                
                                  Thurgh right of hys hard passion,
                                
                                  Þat he tholed for our raunson,
                                
                                  Þe ta right frely he graunted me,
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                                  And þe tother til hym-self held he;
                                
                                  Of was gyfte I chala[n]ge it by skille,
                                
                                  Als þe lagh of his mercy wille."
                                
                                  And when þe devel herd hym þus say,
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                                  Alle skomfit he vanyst oway;
                                
                                  And þe halyman when þis was done
                                
                                  Torned ogayne til hym-self sone,

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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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