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

                                
                                  In defaut of his disciplyne,
                                  Line 5556 
                                
                                  Parchaunce, be dampned til helle pyne,
                                
                                  And þe fader alswa be with þam spilte,
                                
                                  For he es þe cause of þair gilte.
                                
                                  Yhit þe pover sal þam ple[y]ne thurgh right,
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                                  Of þe riche men in Godes syght,
                                
                                  And accuse þam þan ful grevosly,
                                
                                  For þai had of þam na mercy,
                                
                                  For to helpe þam here in þair nede,
                                  Line 5564 
                                
                                  Nouthir to clathe þam ne to fede,
                                
                                  Bot lete silver and gold on þam rust,
                                
                                  Þe whilk þai had in hurde uptrust;
                                
                                  And þar-of til pure wald noght gyve,
                                  Line 5568 
                                
                                  When þai sawe þam at meschyve,
                                
                                  Þar-for þe ruste of þat moweld moné
                                
                                  Agayne þam þan sal wittnes be.
                                
                                  And wormes and moghes on þe same manere,
                                  Line 5572 
                                
                                  Þat in þair clathes has bred here,
                                
                                  Þe whilk þai had here over mesur,
                                
                                  And of þam wald noght parte til þe pur,
                                
                                  Sal þat day be in wittenes broght,
                                  Line 5576 
                                
                                  For þe pure þat þai helped noght.
                                
                                  Alswa þa þat sugettes war til man,
                                
                                  Sal accuse þair soveraynes þan,
                                
                                  And [Þat?]  þam has greved thurgh maystré and myght
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                                  And of other wald do þam na right.
                                
                                  Þe benefices þat God did þam here,
                                
                                  Sal þam accuse on sere manere,
                                
                                  For agayne þam sal Crist allege sone,
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                                  And shewe þam what he had þam done,
                                
                                  And reherce his benefices, mare and les,
                                
                                  To reprove þam of þair unkyndenes.
                                
                                  Yhit þe tourmentes of Cristes passioun,
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                                  Þat he tholed for mans salvacioun,
                                
                                  Sal þam accuse at þat gret dome,
                                
                                  For-why þus says Saynt Ierome:
                                
                                    Crux contra te perorabit, Christus
                                  
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                                    per vulnera sua, contra te allegabit,

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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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