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

                                
                                  For he sal gyf þam, þat turned wil be,
                                
                                  Of gold and silver grete plenté.
                                
                                  Alswa men of symple connyng
                                
                                  He sal turne thurgh miracles and prechyng.
                                  Line 4436 
                                
                                  Gude men, þat haldes Goddes commandmentes,
                                
                                  He sal turne thurgh manace and turmentes.
                                
                                  Many þat semes gude and rightwyse
                                
                                  Saltrow in hym, and Crystes trouth despyse.
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                                  First sal anticrist com in myldnes
                                
                                  And prech ogayn þe right trouth þat es,
                                
                                  And myracles sal thurgh hym be done;
                                
                                  Þan sal þe Iewes resayve hym sone
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                                  And be turned til hym al haly.
                                
                                  And þat tyme sal com Ennoc and Ely
                                
                                  Ogayn anticrist to preche ful harde,
                                
                                  Als yhe may se and here afterwarde.
                                  Line 4448 
                                
                                  Þan sal anticrist bygyn felly
                                
                                  To pursue men thurgh tyrauntry,
                                
                                  Gret parsecucion þan sal he wyrk
                                
                                  Agayn cristen men and haly kirk,
                                  Line 4452 
                                
                                  Þan sal he destroye cristen lawe,
                                
                                  And Gog and Magog til hym drawe,
                                
                                  Þe whilk er halden, als men telles,
                                
                                  Þe werst folk þat in þe world duels.
                                  Line 4456 
                                
                                  Som says þat þai er closed haly
                                
                                  By-yhonde þe mountes of Caspy;
                                
                                  Bot þai er noght swa closed obout
                                
                                  Þat þai ne mught lightly com out,
                                  Line 4460 
                                
                                  Yif a qwene ne war, þat haldes þam in,
                                
                                  Thurgh stre[n]gthe, þat þai may noght out wyn,
                                
                                  Þat es cald þe qwene of Amazons,
                                
                                  Under whas powere þat folk wons,
                                  Line 4464 
                                
                                  Bot at þe last þai sal breke out
                                
                                  And destroy many landes obout.
                                
                                  For þe Iewes has swylk a prophecy
                                
                                  And says þus omang þam commonly,
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                                  Þat þis folk ogayne þe worldes ende
                                
                                  Sal com out, and til Ierusalem wende

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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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