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

                                
                                  He sal be maliciouse and ful of envy,
                                
                                  Als of hym þus spekes þe prophecy:
                                
                                    Fiat Dan coluber in via, cerastes
                                  
                                    in semita, mordens ungulas equi,
                                  
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                                    ut cadat ascensor eius retro, Hoc est [Anticristus] sicut
                                  
                                    serpens, in via sedebit, et in semita erit,
                                  
                                    ut eos, qui per semitam iusticie ambu|
                                  
                                    lant, feriat et veneno sue malicie occidat.
                                  
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                                  "Þe Dan" he says "sal þe nedder be
                                
                                  Sitand in þe way als men sal se;
                                
                                  And sal byte þe hors by þe hufe harde,
                                
                                  And mak þe upstegher fal bakwarde:
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                                  And þat es þus mykel at say,
                                
                                  Als [Þat (Harl. 4196).]  anticrist, als nedder, sal sit in þe way,
                                
                                  And smyte þam alle, bathe mare and les,
                                
                                  Þat walkes in þe way of rightwysnes,
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                                  And sla þam thurgh þe venym
                                
                                  Of þe malice þat sal cum of hym."
                                
                                  Yhit sal he be circumcid
                                
                                  And thurgh þat his malice a whyle sal hid.
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                                  Alswa til hym sal assygned be
                                
                                  A gude angelle, þat he sal noght se,
                                
                                  Aftir his birthe in his bygynnyng,
                                
                                  Þat of him sal haf þe kepyng,
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                                  Bot for he agayn þe trouthe þat es,
                                
                                  Sal be hardend in wikkednes
                                
                                  His gude angelle sal fra hym wende,
                                
                                  And leve hym in þe kepyng of þe fende.
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                                  He sal be lered, als I understand,
                                
                                  And nurist and mast conversand
                                
                                  In þe cité of Bethsayda;
                                
                                  In Capharnaum he sal regne alswa
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                                  Þe whilk Bethsayda, and Capharnaum,
                                
                                  And Corozaym God weried whilom;
                                
                                  For God spak til þas thre cites þos,
                                
                                  Als þe godspelle here shewes us:

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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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