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

                                
                                  Als of gudes of kynde and gudes of graces,
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                                  And gudes of hap þat men purchases.
                                
                                  Þe gudes of kynd er bodily strenthe,
                                
                                  And semely shappe of brede and lenthe
                                
                                  And delyvernes and bewté of body;
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                                  Swilk gudes of kynd here has many.
                                
                                  Gudes of grace may þir be,
                                
                                  Mynde, and witte, and sutilté,
                                
                                  And fair shewyng of speche sutille,
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                                  And knawyng bathe of gude and ille,
                                
                                  Vertus of grete devocioun
                                
                                  And luf of lyf of contemplacioun.
                                
                                  Gudes of hap er þir to gesce,
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                                  Als honours, power, and ryche[s].
                                
                                  Of alle þir gudes men byhoves
                                
                                  Yhelde acounte, als þe buke pruves,
                                
                                  And answer straytly of þam alle.
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                                  I drede many in arrirage [rerage (MS. Harl. 4196).]  mon falle,
                                
                                  And til perpetuele prison gang,
                                
                                  For þai despended þa gudes wrang,
                                
                                  For-whi God has gyfen here nathyng,
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                                  Of whilk he wille noght haf rekkennyng.
                                
                                  Som sal yhit, als I sayd ar,
                                
                                  Yhelde acount ful straytly þar
                                
                                  Of þe gudes þat þai wald noght bede
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                                  Til other þat of þam had nede,
                                
                                  For alle er we als a body here,
                                
                                  For þe apostel says on þis manere:
                                
                                    Omnes enim unum
                                  
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                                    corpus sumus.
                                  
                                  He says "we er alle als a body",
                                
                                  Þat has diverse lyms many.
                                
                                  And als a lym of a body here
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                                  Es redy, aftir it has powere,
                                
                                  To serve alle þe other, mar and les,
                                
                                  Of þat office þat gyven it es,

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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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