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

                                
                                    contra gentem et regnum in regnum,
                                  
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                                    et erunt pestulencie et fames, et terre
                                  
                                    motus per loca. Hec autem omnia
                                  
                                    inicia sunt dolorum, et habundabit
                                  
                                    iniquitas, et refrigescet caritas multorum.
                                  
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                                  '·Says us", cryed þai, "of þi commyng
                                
                                  Som taken and of þe world endyng.
                                
                                  Crist als tite answerd þam þan,
                                
                                  And sayd lukes þat yhow desayve na man,
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                                  For many sal com in my name,
                                
                                  Þat sal say þus, 'Crist I am,'
                                
                                  And many a man þai sal bygile
                                
                                  Bot þai sal regne here bot a while;
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                                  Andrewme ogayne rewme, on þe same wyse
                                
                                  Men ogayne men, thurgh strength, sal ryse;
                                
                                  Pestilences and hungers sal be,
                                
                                  And erthedyns in many contré.
                                  Line 4036 
                                
                                  And al þis sal be bygynnyng hard
                                
                                  Of þe sorows þat sal com aftirward;
                                
                                  Wykkednesse sal wax many falde,
                                
                                  And charité of many sal wax calde."
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                                  Þir takens til his disciples tald he
                                
                                  Þat ogayn þe worldes ende shuld be.
                                
                                  Bot sum of þir takens has bene,
                                
                                  And sum of þam sal yhit be sene.
                                  Line 4044 
                                
                                  And of takens þat yhit sal com,
                                
                                  If yhe wille, I sal tel yhow som.
                                
                                  And first of ancrist wille I say
                                
                                  Þat sal com befor domesday,
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                                  Aftir þe destruccion sal be
                                
                                  Of þe empyre of Rome, þat es yhit fre.
                                
                                  Som tyme al landes of þe world obout
                                
                                  Was sugette til Rome and underlout,
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                                  Þat at certayn teremes [termes (Harl. 4196).]  gaf it trowage,
                                
                                  Als þe custom þan was and þe usage;
                                
                                  Þat custom alle landes þan byhoved do,
                                
                                  Bot Saynt Paule says þus þarto:

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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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