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

                                
                                  He says "kynges of þe lande and princes sere,
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                                  And cheftayns þat er under þam here,
                                
                                  And riche men of divers cuntré,
                                
                                  And strenthy men, and bond and fre,
                                
                                  In caves þai wald þan hyde ilkan
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                                  And in cragges, and in roche of stan;
                                
                                  And sal say til montayns and roches þus,
                                
                                  'Fal opon us now and hyde us,
                                
                                  Fra þe face of hym þat syttes in throne
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                                  And fra þe wrethe of þe lamb', þus tels Saynt Iohan.
                                
                                  Many maner of men sal haf dred þan,
                                
                                  To com byfor þat dreful domesman,
                                
                                  Namely, synful men with-outen hope,
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                                  And yhit says þus þe haly man, Iope [Job (MS. Harl. 4196).] :
                                
                                    Domine quando veneris iudicare terram,
                                  
                                    ubi me abscondam a vultu ire tue, quia
                                  
                                    peccavi nimis [in vita mea]?
                                  
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                                  "Loverd", he says, "when þou sal come
                                
                                  To deme þe erthe and sytte in dome,
                                
                                  Whar sal I fra þi wreth hyd me
                                
                                  For-why I haf synd ogaynes þe
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                                  Ful gretely in my life here?"
                                
                                  And yhit says Iob on þis manere:
                                
                                    Quis michi hoc tribuat
                                  
                                    ut in inferno protegas me,
                                  
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                                    et abscondas me donec
                                  
                                    pertranseat furor tuus?
                                  
                                  "Loverd, wha may gyf to me", says he,
                                
                                  "Þat þou in helle may hyd me
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                                  And cover me at þe dredful day,
                                
                                  Unto þi wrethe be passed oway,"
                                
                                  Þan es it na wondre, als I sayde are,
                                
                                  If þe synful men haf drede and care,
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                                  Þat sal dampned be and peryst
                                
                                  For to cum in þe syght of Ihesu Crist,
                                
                                  Þat til þam swa wrethful sal seme þan,
                                
                                  When Job þus says þe halyman.

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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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