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

                                
                                  Ilka mans body may be cald,
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                                  Als a castelle here for to hald,
                                
                                  Þat til man es gyfen of God to kepe
                                
                                  For his profit and Goddes worshepe.
                                
                                  Þe enemys ofte assales it hard
                                  Line 5824 
                                
                                  And þarfor says Saynt Bernard:
                                
                                    Bonum castrum custodit
                                  
                                    qui corpus suum custodit.
                                  
                                  "A gude castelle" he says, "kepes he
                                  Line 5828 
                                
                                  "Þat his body kepes in honesté."
                                
                                  Man sal yhelde acount alswa,
                                
                                  At þe dome, ar þai þeþen ga,
                                
                                  Þat stratly of þam sal be tane;
                                  Line 5832 
                                
                                  Noght anely of þe saules by þam ane,
                                
                                  Ne anely of þair bodys þar-by,
                                
                                  Bot of bathe togidir ioyntly,
                                
                                  Þat es to say, ilkan sal þan
                                  Line 5836 
                                
                                  Yhelde acount of alle hale a man,
                                
                                  For a man properly may noght be cald,
                                
                                  Bot-if þe body and saul togidir hald
                                
                                  Þe saule be itself man es nane,
                                  Line 5840 
                                
                                  Ne þe body with-out saule by it ane.
                                
                                  Bot man may be called on twyn manere,
                                
                                  Whilles þai bathe er knyt togyder here.
                                
                                  For þes clerkes þat gret clergy can
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                                  Calles man bathe Inner man and utter man.
                                
                                  Inner man onence þe saule anely
                                
                                  And utter man onence þe body.
                                
                                  Bot þe body and saule bytwene þam twa,
                                  Line 5848 
                                
                                  Makes bot a man and na ma,
                                
                                  Þarfor men sal yhelde acount ioyntly
                                
                                  Of bathe togyder, þe saule and þe body;
                                
                                  And forþi þat God, aftir his stature,
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                                  Made man mast digne and noble creature
                                
                                  Þarfor if man be til God frawarde
                                
                                  And unkynde and of hym tak na rewarde,
                                
                                  Þat ilk dignité of man namely,
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                                  Sal, at þe dome, yhelde hym gylty.

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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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