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

                                
                                  With þair crist, þat wonders sal wirke,
                                
                                  And þan sal þai distroie haly kyrke.
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                                  Some clerkes says, als þe glose telles,
                                
                                  Þat Gog and Magog es noght elles
                                
                                  Bot þe host of onticrist [þat] sal come
                                
                                  Sodanly ogayn þe day of dome,
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                                  And ogayne haly kyrk werray
                                
                                  For to distroye it if þai may.
                                
                                  Þe glose of þe buke says alswa
                                
                                  Þat by Gog er understanden alle þa
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                                  Thurgh whilk þe devel, our mast enemy,
                                
                                  Sal cristen men pursue prively.
                                
                                  By Magog may þas understanden be
                                
                                  Thurgh wham openly pursue sal he,
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                                  Or þas er understanden þar-by,
                                
                                  Þat in anticrist tyme first pryvely
                                
                                  And aftirward openly, sal wyrk
                                
                                  Wykkedness ogayne haly kyrk.
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                                  Gog es als mykel at say, als covert,
                                
                                  And Magog es noght elles bot als apert.
                                
                                  Þir twa prophetes, als says som,
                                
                                  Ennok and Hely byfor sal com,
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                                  Bytwene þe tyme of þe commyng privé
                                
                                  Of anticrist, when he sal born be,
                                
                                  And þe tyme of his oppen commyng,
                                
                                  Þat sal be thurgh open prechyng
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                                  And thurgh open parsecucion,
                                
                                  Þat he sal do til diverse nacion.
                                
                                  Bytwen þa tymes þa prophetes twa
                                
                                  On sere partes sal preche swa,
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                                  Þat thurgh þair prechyng þai sal drawe
                                
                                  And convert þe Iewes til cristen lawe,
                                
                                  For þus spekes þe prophete Malachy,
                                
                                  In a boke of þe prophecy:
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                                    Convertent corda patrum
                                  
                                    in filios.
                                  
                                  He says "þai sal turne thurgh Goddes myght
                                
                                  Þe fadirs hertes intil þe sons right."

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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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