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

                                
                                  For a thyng es fouler þat may file,
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                                  Þan þe thyng þat it fyles, and mare vile,
                                
                                  Þarfor says clerkes of grete cunnyng,
                                
                                  Þat syn es swa foule and swa grisly thyng,
                                
                                  Þat if a man mught properly se his syn
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                                  In þe kynd lyknes þat it falles be in,
                                
                                  He shuld for ferdnes titter it fle
                                
                                  Þan any devel þat he mught se;
                                
                                  Here may men se and undirstande
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                                  How foul es syn and how fylande.
                                
                                  Bot men sese noght ne knawes what it es,
                                
                                  Þarfor men dredes it wele þe les.
                                
                                  Bot if a synful myght se with-oute
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                                  How foul þe syn es, þat he bers oboute,
                                
                                  He suld never make ioy ne haf lykyng,
                                
                                  Until he war delyverd of þat foul thyng.
                                
                                  Sen [The MS. reads Syn.]  þe devel þus has tane his uglines
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                                  Of þe filth of syn, þat swa filand es,
                                
                                  Þan aght þe saul of synful with-in
                                
                                  Be ful foule þat es alle slotered in syn;
                                
                                  Þarfor a man aght, war-so he wendes,
                                  Line 2368 
                                
                                  Mare drede syn þan þe syght of fendes,
                                
                                  Þat sal aper til hym at his dede day.
                                
                                  Bot his syn he sal se fouler þan þay,
                                
                                  Of whilk he wald noght hym right shrife.
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                                  Ne repent hym here in his lyfe.
                                
                                  Þe thred skill til our undirstandyng
                                
                                  Why us aght drede þe dede commyng,
                                
                                  Es for þe acont ful strayt and harde,
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                                  Of alle our lif þat has bene frawarde,
                                
                                  Þat us byhoves yheld in God sight
                                
                                  Als wele of wrang als of right,
                                
                                  Of alle thyng þat ever we wroght,
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                                  In werk, in worde, in wille, in thoght,
                                
                                  And of alle þe tymes þat passes oway
                                
                                  Fra our bygynnyng to our last day,
                                
                                  Alle sal þan be shewed and sene,
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                                  Bathe gude and ille, foul and clene,

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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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