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

                                
                                  And se þe payns þar ilkan.
                                
                                  Bot yhong Innocentes sal fele nan,
                                
                                  For þai couthe never na syn wirk,
                                  Line 3320 
                                
                                  And passes [passede (MS. Harl. 6923).]  in þe trouthe of haly kyrk.
                                
                                  Þarfor þai swippe þurgh purgatory
                                
                                  Als a foul þat flyes smertly,
                                
                                  With-outen payn þat may dere,
                                  Line 3324 
                                
                                  Or any sight þat may þam fere,
                                
                                  Bot unnethes any other may
                                
                                  Passe qwyte thurgh purgatory away,
                                
                                  Þat þe fire ne sal noght fynd in þam to bryn,
                                  Line 3328 
                                
                                  Ar þai passe thurgh som veniel syn,
                                
                                  Swa strayt þai sal be examynd þan;
                                
                                  For it es nan swa parfite man
                                
                                  Þat he ne thynkes, some tyme, som vayn thoght
                                  Line 3332 
                                
                                  Þat he lattes pas and charges it noght;
                                
                                  Of swilk hym byhoves clensed be
                                
                                  Or [ar?]  he may þe bright face of God se;
                                
                                  For als gold, þat shynes clere and bright,
                                  Line 3336 
                                
                                  Semes fyned clene ynoghe til mans sight,
                                
                                  Whar it put in fire to fyn mare
                                
                                  Yhit suld it leve sum dros þare;
                                
                                  Right swa þe saules, on þe same manere,
                                  Line 3340 
                                
                                  Of parfit men, þat semes clene here
                                
                                  Of al syn, and es to God redy,
                                
                                  Yhit when þai sal pas thurgh purgatory,
                                
                                  Þe fire þar, þat es with in,
                                  Line 3344 
                                
                                  Sal fynd in þam sum dros of syn,
                                
                                  Als light speche, or thoght in vayn,
                                
                                  For whilk þam byhoves fele sum payn,
                                
                                  For swa fyned never na gold here was
                                  Line 3348 
                                
                                  Thurgh fire, als þai sal be ar þai pas.
                                
                                  Here haf I shewed swilk [wilk.]  saules sal be
                                
                                  In purgatory, als clerkes can se.
                                
                                  Now wille I som syns here specify
                                  Line 3352 
                                
                                  For whilk þai duelle in purgatory.

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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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