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

                                
                                  Til þe hard rode tre fast fested;
                                
                                  And of þe croun of thornes þat was thrested
                                  Line 5296 
                                
                                  On his heved fast, þat þe blode out rane,
                                
                                  When þe thornes hym prikked til þe harnpane
                                
                                  And of þe scourges alswa þat brast his hyde [Also the skourges that his flesshe to-tere (MS. Addit 11305).] ,
                                
                                  Þat þe blode ran doun, on ilk syde.
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                                  Alle þer takens sal þan be shewed
                                
                                  Byfor alle men, bathe lerd and lewed;
                                
                                  Bot þe synful, þat dampned sal be,
                                
                                  To þair shenshepe þan sal þam se.
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                                  Crist sal shew þan his woundes wyde,
                                
                                  In heved, and fote and in his syde,
                                
                                  Þat fressche sal sem and alle bledand
                                
                                  Til þe synful, þat bifor hym sal stand.
                                  Line 5308 
                                
                                  He sal shew, to þair confusioun,
                                
                                  Alle þe signes of his passioun,
                                
                                  And þe enchesoun and þe manere
                                
                                  Of his ded þat he tholed here,
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                                  And alle þis sal he do þos openly,
                                
                                  To reprove þe synful men þar-by
                                
                                  And þat sal be þair shenschip þan,
                                
                                  For Saynt Austyn says þus, þe halyman:
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                                    Fortasse, in corpore suo, dominus cicatrices serva|
                                  
                                    vit ut in iudico hostibus exprobaret,
                                  
                                    ut convincens eos dicat: Ecce homo
                                  
                                    quem crucifixistis; Ecce Deus et homo
                                  
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                                    quem credere noluistis: Videte vulnera
                                  
                                    que infixistis; agnoscite latus
                                  
                                    quod pupigistis propter vos
                                  
                                    apertum est et intrare noluistis.
                                  
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                                  He says, "our Lord Goddes son almyghty
                                
                                  Parantere has keped, in his body,
                                
                                  Þe erres [Þe sore of his woundes swiþe clere (MS. Y.).]  of his wondes sere,
                                
                                  Þat he tholed for mans syn here,
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                                  For to shew þam til his enmys,
                                
                                  Whan he sal sytte in dome als iustys

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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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