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

                                
                                  For þan sal þai come til þe last iugement,
                                
                                  And with þe bodys agayn til helle be hent.
                                
                                  Bot fra purgatory saules may wynne
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                                  Til blisse when þai er clensed of synne.
                                
                                  Aboven þat yhit es þe ferthe stede,
                                
                                  Þat Crist visited when he was dede;
                                
                                  And þa þat þar war with hym out tuke
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                                  And left nane þaryn, als says þe buke.
                                
                                  Ne fra þat tyme als we here clerkes telle
                                
                                  Com never nan yhit þeder to duelle,
                                
                                  Ne never nan forthward sal com;
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                                  And þat stede clerkes calles lymbus patrum
                                
                                  Þe whilk a fre preson on Inglys es,
                                
                                  Whare þe haly faders duelled in myrknes.
                                
                                  Alle þir four stedes men may helle calle,
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                                  For þai er closed with-in þe erthe alle;
                                
                                  And for helle þai may alle be tane,
                                
                                  Of whilk four purgatory es ane.
                                
                                  Þarfor haly kyrk þat for saules prays,
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                                  Calles purgatory helle, þat þus says:
                                
                                    Domine Ihesu Criste libera animas
                                  
                                    omnium fidelium defunctorum, de
                                  
                                    manu inferni!
                                  
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                                  "Loverd deliver out of helles hande
                                
                                  Alle crysten saules þat þar er duellande;"
                                
                                  Þat es to say, out [of] purgatory
                                
                                  Þar þe saules er clensed parfytely.
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                                  Bot fra þe lawest helle, with-outen dout,
                                
                                  Na saul may be delyverd out;
                                
                                  For of mercy þar es na hope;
                                
                                  Þarfor þus says þe haly man Iobe.
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                                    Quia in inferno nulla est redempcio.
                                  
                                  "In helle", he says, "es na raunceon."
                                
                                  For na helpe may be in þat dungeon,
                                
                                  Þat es to say, in þe lawest helle,
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                                  Whar þe dampned saules sal ay duelle,
                                
                                  Whar messe ne prayer helpes noght,
                                
                                  Til þam þat er þeder broght.

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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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