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

                                
                                  Abraham bosom es nathyng elles,
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                                  Bot heven þar haly spyrites duelles.
                                
                                  When þe ryche man, þat in helle sat lawe,
                                
                                  Lazar in Abraham bosom sawe,
                                
                                  He cryed til Abraham and prayed with-alle
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                                  Þat a drope of calde water mught falle
                                
                                  Til his tung, fra Lazar fynger ende,
                                
                                  Als es in þe godspel contende.
                                
                                  Bot al-if he þus spak to hym,
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                                  Yhit had he na tung ne [The MS. reads no.]  other lym,
                                
                                  Ne Lazar, als yhe sal understande,
                                
                                  Had nouther fynger, ne fote, ne hande,
                                
                                  For þai bathe war spirites anly,
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                                  Þat nouther had lymmes ne body.
                                
                                  Þe tane was in blis soverayne,
                                
                                  Þe tother was in endles payne.
                                
                                  Bot þe ryche man saule feled in helle
                                  Line 3076 
                                
                                  Payne, als he had bene in flesshe and felle;
                                
                                  And Lazar saule til him semed þan
                                
                                  Als he had body and lymes of man.
                                
                                  Yhit has men herd som clerkes maynte[ne]
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                                  Swilk an opinion, als I wene,
                                
                                  Þat a saule, þat es in purgatory
                                
                                  Or in helle, has of þe ayre a body
                                
                                  For to thole payne, in lyms sere,
                                  Line 3084 
                                
                                  After þat he has synned here.
                                
                                  Bot whether þe saul haf body or noght,
                                
                                  He sal fele payne, after he has wroght.
                                
                                  Þe fifte payne es þe fire hate,
                                  Line 3088 
                                
                                  Þat na maner of thing may abate,
                                
                                  Bot almusdede and messe and prayere,
                                
                                  Þat frendes dus for þe saul here.
                                
                                  To abate þat fire, þa thre er best,
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                                  For þa thre may bring þe saul to rest.
                                
                                  Þat fire is hatter and mare kene,
                                
                                  Þan al þe fire þat here es sene;

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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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