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

                                
                                  And take mekely þat God him sendes,
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                                  And fle alle thyng þat he defendes.
                                
                                  For thurgh nuyes and angers sere,
                                
                                  He makes a man, als his preson here,
                                
                                  Payn to drighe for hys foly,
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                                  In þis lif als he es worthy.
                                
                                  And, if he it thole noght grotchand,
                                
                                  In-stede of penance it sal hym stand,
                                
                                  And yhit wille God him mare do,
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                                  He wil gif him mede þar-to,
                                
                                  Þat his ioy in heven sal heke,
                                
                                  If he thole angwyse with hert meke.
                                
                                  Als þe gude son tholes mekely
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                                  Þe fader, when he wille hym chasty,
                                
                                  Swa suld ilk man thole and love God ay,
                                
                                  And do alle þe gude þat he may,
                                
                                  And specialy almusdede,
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                                  Þe naked to clathe, and hungry to fede,
                                
                                  And other werkes of mercy wirke,
                                
                                  Als theches and preches haly kirke;
                                
                                  And kepe him clene, to his lyfes ende,
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                                  Fra syn, þan sal his saul wende
                                
                                  Til blis, and lyghtly pas alle payne
                                
                                  Of purgatori; þis es certayne.
                                
                                  Here haf I shewed yhow, on Inglys,
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                                  Som syns þat Saynt Austyn specifys.
                                
                                  Now wil I shew what help es certayne
                                
                                  For þam þat in purgatory has payne,
                                
                                  And what may mak þair payn cees
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                                  And þam of þair payn to haf relees.
                                
                                  Þe saules, þat til purgatory wendes,
                                
                                  May be helped thurgh help of frendes,
                                
                                  Þat almus for þam dus, and prays,
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                                  For þe haly man, Saynt Austyn says:
                                
                                    Non est negandum spiritus defunctorum, pietate
                                  
                                    suorum viventium, posse relevari.
                                  
                                  He says "men shuld not denye on na manere,
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                                  Þat þe saules of þam þat er dede here,

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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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