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

                                
                                  Ne nuye als mykel als þai walde,
                                
                                  Sal þan be louse and nathyng þam halde.
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                                  Þat tyme sal preche na cresten man,
                                
                                  For þai sal be halden als cursed þan;
                                
                                  Ne nan sal bye with þam ne selle,
                                
                                  Ne felaghshepe hald with þam ne duelle,
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                                  Bot with þas þat had Criste forsaken
                                
                                  And þe merk of anticrist had taken,
                                
                                  Þat men mught knawe and understand
                                
                                  Þat þai til anticrist war assentand.
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                                  For al þas men sal bere his merk,
                                
                                  Þat sal forsake to wirk Cristes werk,
                                
                                  And sal folowe anticristes lawe,
                                
                                  By his merk men sal þam knawe,
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                                  Þe whilk þai sal ber, als I understande,
                                
                                  Outher in þe frount or in þe ryght hande.
                                
                                  Bot other þat wille noght do his rede
                                
                                  Sal be done to vilans dede.
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                                  On þis four maners, als I haf shewed,
                                
                                  He sal drawe til hym bathe lered and lewed,
                                
                                  And crysten law sal be doun layde,
                                
                                  Þarfor þus in appocalips es sayde:
                                  Line 4416 
                                
                                    Cauda eius tertiam partem stellarum
                                  
                                    celi trahebat, et misit eas in terra.
                                  
                                  He says, "with his tayle he droghe don even
                                
                                  Þe thred part of þe sternes of heven,
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                                  And into þe erthe sent þam ryght,"
                                
                                  Þar þai mught noght shyne ne gyf lyght.
                                
                                  Þis was þe taille of þe dragon
                                
                                  Þat Saynt Johan saw in a vision.
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                                  Þe dragon es understanden þe fende
                                
                                  And his taille anticrist þat folowed at þe ende
                                
                                  And þe thred part of þe sternes bright
                                
                                  Er cristen men undirstanden right,
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                                  Þe whilk he sal fra right trowthe draw,
                                
                                  And do þam in erthe to hald his law.
                                
                                  Þe men of þe worlde þat er covaytous
                                
                                  He sal turne thurgh gyftes precious,

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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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