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

                                
                                  Here to acordes, als þe buk telles us,
                                  Line 2500 
                                
                                  Ysidre þe grete clerk, þat says þus:
                                
                                    Omnes iusticie nostre quasi pannus
                                  
                                    menstruale.
                                  
                                  He says "alle our ryghtwysnes er sene
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                                  Als a clathe, filed of thyng unclene;"
                                
                                  Wharfor certanly here wate nane
                                
                                  How he sal fare, when he es hethen gane.
                                
                                  Bot comfort of gud hope may he fele,
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                                  Þat here lyves wele, to fare wele;
                                
                                  For we awe to trow, with-outen were,
                                
                                  Þat God sal hym yhelde þat dose wele here.
                                
                                  Bot yhit es he noght syker in þir days,
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                                  For-why, þe haly man þos says,
                                
                                    Nescit homo utrum dignus sit
                                  
                                    odio vel amore.
                                  
                                  For certayn, he says, "a man what noght,"
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                                  Þogh he had never swa mykel gude wroght,
                                
                                  "Whether he war worthy after his dede
                                
                                  To hafe luf of God or hatrede."
                                
                                  And Isidre, als a buke shewes us,
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                                  Acordes þar-to, þat says þus:
                                
                                    Servus dei dum bonum agit, utrum
                                  
                                    sit ei ad bonum incertus est.
                                  
                                  He says, "he þat es God servand,
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                                  When he gude dus, outher with tung or hand,
                                
                                  He es noght certayne yhit in thoght,
                                
                                  Wether it be gude til hym or noght."
                                
                                  Wharfor our lyfyng here es harde,
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                                  Als þe haly man says, Saynt Bernarde:
                                
                                    Quis, sine trepidacione et timore,
                                  
                                    hanc vitam ducere potest?
                                  
                                  "Wha," he says, "may þis lyfe here lede
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                                  With-outen tremblyng and drede?"
                                
                                  Alswa ['Als wha' (MS. Harl. 6923).]  say here, may lyf na man
                                
                                  With-outen drede, þat witte can;
                                
                                  For al-if a man here afforce him ay
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                                  For to do alle þe gude þat he may,

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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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