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

                                
                                  Þe days þat er ille and hevy,
                                
                                  Þat er putted til sere men singulerly, [singulary (MS. Harl. 4196).] 
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                                  Yhit, at þe last, abrege sal he,
                                
                                  Thurgh his gudenes and his pyté."
                                
                                  Anticrist sal be with-outen pere,
                                
                                  And he sal lyf twa and thretty yhere
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                                  And an half, als som clerkes says þai se;
                                
                                  Of swa many yhere his eld sal be
                                
                                  Fra þe tyme of his first bygynnyng,
                                
                                  Until þe tyme of his last endyng.
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                                  For sum says he sal lyf als many yhere
                                
                                  Als Crist lifed, in manskynd here,
                                
                                  And when he has þus lang lyfed,
                                
                                  Þan sal na ma thurgh him by [be?]  greved.
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                                  He sal þan son fele Goddes vengeance
                                
                                  And with-outen any repentance,
                                
                                  He sal be slayn, ful sodanly,
                                
                                  Thurgh þe myght of God almyghty,
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                                  Opon þe mounte of Olyvett,
                                
                                  In þe stede whar Crist his fete sett,
                                
                                  When he stey up til heven bright,
                                
                                  And swa sal he ende thurgh Goddes might.
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                                  Som clerkes yhit says alswa,
                                
                                  Þat Saynt Michael sal hym sla,
                                
                                  Thurgh Goddes byddyng in þe same stede,
                                
                                  In þe whilk he sal be funden dede.
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                                  And þe boke says, alswa, þat he,
                                
                                  Thurgh þe gast of Goddes mouthe slayn sal be.
                                
                                  Bot how swa it be þis es certayn,
                                
                                  Thurgh Goddes myght þar sal he be slayn.
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                                  Anticrist mynisters, when he es dede,
                                
                                  Sal mak ioy þan in ilka stede,
                                
                                  And haf þair delices nyght and day,
                                
                                  And wedden wyfes, and þus say:
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                                  'Alle-if our prince be dede þus
                                
                                  We haf pees and welthe plenteuus,'
                                
                                  And right als þai sal say þus alle
                                
                                  Sodanly ded þai sal doun falle,

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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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