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

                                
                                  Bot als tite þar-efter þai sal wende
                                  Line 3244 
                                
                                  Tille þe blis þat es with-outen ende.
                                
                                  Þe sevend payn of purgatory es
                                
                                  Þat þe saules er als in wildernes,
                                
                                  Þar defaut es of alkyn thyng
                                  Line 3248 
                                
                                  Of wilk man mught haf lykyng;
                                
                                  Þair payn es turned manyfalde.
                                
                                  Now er þai in hete, and now in calde;
                                
                                  For sumtyme þai sal be pyned lang
                                  Line 3252 
                                
                                  With hete, and som tyme with cald omang.
                                
                                  Þai sal haf þare bathe hunger and threst,
                                
                                  And travayl grete, with-outen rest.
                                
                                  Þai er dungen þare, to eke þaire payn,
                                  Line 3256 
                                
                                  With smert stormes als of wynd and rayn,
                                
                                  And with stormes of hayle, sharpe and kene,
                                
                                  Swylk stormes was never here sene,
                                
                                  Als þe sauls sal þar here and se.
                                  Line 3260 
                                
                                  Þus sal þai on sere-wyse pyned be,
                                
                                  Sum many wynter for þair syn,
                                
                                  Ar þai til þe sight of God may wyn.
                                
                                  Swilk maner of payns þai sal have þare,
                                  Line 3264 
                                
                                  With other ma, þat sal greve sare.
                                
                                  Bot a grete payn yhit þis sal be,
                                
                                  Þe grete yhernyng þat þai haf to se
                                
                                  Þe face of God, þat es swa bright,
                                  Line 3268 
                                
                                  And þe lang tariyng fra þat syght.
                                
                                  Bot til þat sight þai may never wyn,
                                
                                  Until þai be clensed þar of al syn.
                                
                                  Here haf I talde yhow aparty,
                                  Line 3272 
                                
                                  Of sum payns of purgatory.
                                
                                  Now I wille shew, als þe boke telles,
                                
                                  Whilk sauls in purgatory duelles.
                                
                                  Þe saules þat to purgatory most wend
                                  Line 3276 
                                
                                  Aftir þe dede, when þis life has end,
                                
                                  Nedly byhoves dwelle þar-in,
                                
                                  Unto þai be clensed of al syn,
                                
                                  Thurgh bitter paynes þat er þare.
                                  Line 3280 
                                
                                  Bot sum sal fele les, and sum mare,

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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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