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

                                
                                  And up ogayne tylle heven may flegh,
                                
                                  In þe space of a twynkellyng of ane eghe.
                                
                                  And swa may a saule þat es clene and lyght,
                                
                                  Com þider fro hethen in als schort a flyght,
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                                  Thurgh þe myght of God and thurgh noght elles
                                
                                  And swa has done many þat þare dwelles;
                                
                                  Þis may be halden a gret ferly,
                                
                                  Omang alle þe wonders of God alle-myghty,
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                                  Þat ane aungelle may pass swa many myle,
                                
                                  Ffra heven tylle hyder, in swa schort awhyle.
                                
                                  And a saule thurgh Godes myght and grace,
                                
                                  May fro hethen com þider in swa short space.
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                                  This heven es þe alther-heghest place of alle,
                                
                                  Hegher es na thyng þat may bifalle,
                                
                                  Þe whilk alle thyng contenes of dignyté,
                                
                                  And in nathyng contende may be,
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                                  It contenes over-alle, on ilk party,
                                
                                  Bath bodily thyng and gastly,
                                
                                  And als helle es lawest place þat may falle,
                                
                                  Swa es þis heven alther-heghest place of alle;
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                                  And als sorow es ay in þe lawest place,
                                
                                  Swa es ay in þe heghest, ioy and solace.
                                
                                  And als tylle þe lawest place, drawes us syn,
                                
                                  Swa tylle þe heghest may vertues us wyn.
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                                  Þis heven es cald heven empiry
                                
                                  Þat es at say heven þat es fyry,
                                
                                  Ffor it semes alle als fyre of gret myght,
                                
                                  Þat brynnes noght bot schynes bryght.
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                                  Þis heven falles noght obout to ga,
                                
                                  Ne moves noght als dose þe other twa,
                                
                                  Bot standes ay stylle, for it es þe best,
                                
                                  And þe most worthi place of pees and rest
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                                  Þat God has ordaynd for þair wonyng,
                                
                                  Þat gyfes þam here tylle ryghtwise lyfyng.
                                
                                  Þis heven es cald Godes awen se,
                                
                                  Ffor þar syttes þe haly trinité,
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                                  And alle þe orders of aungels,
                                
                                  And alle þe blyssfulle spirites þat in heven dwels,

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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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