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

                                
                                  Of payn may relesed be
                                
                                  Thurgh frendes lyfand þat has pyté."
                                
                                  For als þas þat passed, als I sayd are,
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                                  Til purgatory er pyned þare
                                
                                  For weniel syns, mare and lesse,
                                
                                  Aparty, thurgh Goddes rightwisnesse,
                                
                                  Right swa thurgh help þai may aparty,
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                                  Be relesed þar, thurgh Goddes mercy.
                                
                                  Alle þat men dus here, bathe les and mare,
                                
                                  For þe saules þat duelles þare
                                
                                  Avayles þam noght als to heven mede,
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                                  Bot for þair deliverance fra payn to spede.
                                
                                  Four maners of helpes er general,
                                
                                  Þat in purgatory availes þam al,
                                
                                  Þat es to say, prayer and fastyng,
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                                  And almus dede and messyng.
                                
                                  On twa maners, als clerkes can se,
                                
                                  Þe saule fra payn deliverd may be;
                                
                                  Þe tane by way of grace es,
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                                  And þe tother by way of rightwisnes,
                                
                                  By way of grace on twyn manere
                                
                                  Als es writen in þis boke here.
                                
                                  First thurgh prayer of Crist þat es hede,
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                                  When he es offerd in fourme of brede,
                                
                                  Thurgh prestes hande here at þe mes,
                                
                                  When þe sacrament swa made es.
                                
                                  Alswa thurgh prayer of his lyms,
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                                  Þat es, of gude men þat toward heven clyms.
                                
                                  Þan may þe saules in purgatory,
                                
                                  By way of grace specialy,
                                
                                  Be delivered of pyn þat ders,
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                                  Thurgh messes and rightwis men prayers.
                                
                                  By way of rightwysnes help may be
                                
                                  On twyn maners, als yhe may se.
                                
                                  First, through byhyng of paynes þat greves,
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                                  With almus, þat men to the pure gyves.
                                
                                  Another es here thurgh assethe makyng,
                                
                                  Als thurgh penance of fre[n]des and fastyng.

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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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