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

                                
                                    Quoniam nisi venerit dissencio primum etc.,
                                  
                                    id est, nisi prius dissenserint omnia regna
                                  
                                    a Romano Imperio, que prius erant sub|
                                  
                                    dita, non antea veniet antichristus.
                                  
                                  Line 4060 
                                
                                  He says "bot if dissencion come,
                                
                                  Þat es, bot-if alle landes hald agayn Rome,
                                
                                  Swa þat it be put til destruccion
                                
                                  Thurgh þam þat first was in subieccion,
                                  Line 4064 
                                
                                  Anticrist ar þat tyme sal noght com
                                
                                  Þat sal com byfor þe day of dom.
                                
                                  Þat destrucion, als says haly writt,
                                
                                  Sal be, bot þat tyme com noght yhitt.
                                  Line 4068 
                                
                                  Fra þat tyme sal na land ne contré
                                
                                  In subieccion of Rome langer be;
                                
                                  Ne fra þan sal na man be bughsome,
                                
                                  Ne obedient to þe kirk of Rome.
                                  Line 4072 
                                
                                  Men sese þat þe empire, þat was swa myghty,
                                
                                  Es now destruyed a grete party;
                                
                                  Bot at þe last, als I sayd are,
                                
                                  It sal be destruyed wele mare,
                                  Line 4076 
                                
                                  Bot þe dignité þat til it sal falle,
                                
                                  Sal noght in þat tyme perysshe alle.
                                
                                  It sal stand and duelle with-outen dout
                                
                                  In alle his regyons obout.
                                  Line 4080 
                                
                                  Þos sal þe first taken bygyn at Rome;
                                
                                  For it es heved of al cristendome;
                                
                                  For when it es put til destrucion
                                
                                  Alle haly kyrk sal be put don.
                                  Line 4084 
                                
                                  Some clerkes says þat an sal come
                                
                                  Þat sal hald þe empire of Rome
                                
                                  Alle halely and his croun bere
                                
                                  Wele, and in pees with-outen were.
                                  Line 4088 
                                
                                  He sal be last emparour þat þare sal be,
                                
                                  And mast of alle kynges of pousté;
                                
                                  Þe whilk sal wele maynten his state
                                
                                  And þe empire, with-outen debate,
                                  Line 4092 
                                
                                  And it governe thurgh laghe and witte,
                                
                                  Als lang als he sal hald itte.

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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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